Fat fish

[my2rotties]

What a nice achilles tang. Guess yours is proof that they do not all starve to death. Was he hard to get eating or did he get ich when he came home? I don't want one, don't worry, but success stories are always so encouraging to see. How big is he now? Do they get to the size sohals get?

My sohal is fat, and I think he is too fat, but you tell him that. I have had him over three months and he has grown about 50% since he came home. All my fish grow and eat more then I care to feed. I just read that tangs get mean if they are hungry... so I throw pellets in here and there on top of their feedings. Not a single pellet ever touches the sand and the sohal can pack them in in a second. The nori clip is stripped bare in no time.

I read that the biggest concerns are if the fish are not eating and such. Mine seem to hit the buffet line too much but I don't want any fish hungry and stressed either. I will try to snap a shot of my sohal, he is a whale, much like the achilles. Big fat cheeks, and puffy face.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

I used to think my fish were nice and "thick" until I went to a friends place the other day to see his fish...now mine look kind of skinny to me!

He has the thickest Foxface, Copperband, Moorish Idol, Powder Blue Tang, Sailfin, Clowns and I was most impressed with his Mandarin (whos belly dragged on the ground) that doesn't eat frozen but was so thick and big.

I bet some people know who I am talking about now. LOL. I have heard a rumor he goes through more food in a week than most people feed in a month

He has the nicest colored fish I have seen in a long time.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by my2rotties

What a nice achilles tang. Guess yours is proof that they do not all starve to death. Was he hard to get eating or did he get ich when he came home? I don't want one, don't worry, but success stories are always so encouraging to see. How big is he now? Do they get to the size sohals get?

My sohal is fat, and I think he is too fat, but you tell him that. I have had him over three months and he has grown about 50% since he came home. All my fish grow and eat more then I care to feed. I just read that tangs get mean if they are hungry... so I throw pellets in here and there on top of their feedings. Not a single pellet ever touches the sand and the sohal can pack them in in a second. The nori clip is stripped bare in no time.

I read that the biggest concerns are if the fish are not eating and such. Mine seem to hit the buffet line too much but I don't want any fish hungry and stressed either. I will try to snap a shot of my sohal, he is a whale, much like the achilles. Big fat cheeks, and puffy face.

I wouldn't worry about it. When I was diving in Australia a few years back, so many of the large tangs were much thicker than the average tang you would see in an aquarium. It was kind of two extremes. Some looked on the brink or starvation and the obviously dominant and "fittest" were ridiculously thick. Like the Achilles Tang above (which does not at all look fat to me just nice and thick, healthy). Being in Australia, we didn't see as many tangs as you would in Hawaii but this kind of went for all fish except I noticed a lot of the larger predators like puffers were quite thin.

[marie]

I've had the achilles for 3 yrs now but when I got him he came down with marine velvet and had to be treated with copper and kept in quarantine for 8 weeks

*edit* oh and he's grown from approx 3" when I got him to 8-9" now. The max size is 10" so hopefully he won't get a lot bigger