Food for a Sailfin tang

[Quinn]

I don't know what the deal was with my tang but she would eat a sheet in about ten minutes, normally... and she was quite fat, so I don't think she was starving. Good appetite I guess. My male clownfish also nibbled at it, but never the female.

[Delphinus]

In time, that tang will make quick work of devouring that nori. In the meantime, yeah, it might take a little while to get used to the idea.

I just have to wave a sheet of nori in front of the tank to make my sailfin go nuts in anticipation. I can't put it in there fast enough.

Your tang will come around.

[LostMind]

my two baby hippos and lawnmower blennie fight over the half sheet I put in each morning. It's funny, like two grandkids pestering grandpa

And its usually all gone by the time I am home from work.

[Cap'n]

I have never been concerned with lose pieces of nori floating around the tank as those are the "fun" bits that the tangs will chase down and eat first. The other fish get in on the action as well but none go crazy over a fresh sheet like my yellow tang; quite entertaining.

[Richer]

Have you tried soaking the nori in garlic extract? Up until recently, my algae blenny never touched nori in my tank (tied to a rock, to pvc, you name it). However, after I started soaking it in garlic extreme, my blenny took to it almost immediately. Now that I got it eating nori sheets, I've got green poop floating around all over the place ...but at least my blenny is fat

-Richer

[Azilla]

Ok well here is a strange one. I have been puttin strips of nori in my tank and when i walk away and come back it is gone. I know the shrimp tears it off then it floats around but it always goes missing. Well tonight i watched. I put the strip in the shrimp came over tore it up then ripped off the entire chunk it floated around the tank then i saw my bubble corals tenticles come out and it grabbed the nori sheet. As i watched the bubble coral ate the entire sheet of nori right before my eyes................ Now i didnt know they ate this kinda stuff???

[LostMind]

wow, now thats cool

Take a pic!

[LostMind]

btw - how does the shrimp manage to rip off the whole sheet thru the mesh?

[Azilla]

I didnt have it on a screen cuz i dont have one. But i used fishing string. I dunno he does rip it off. I will get some pics of my corals eattin the seaweed. My bubble coral eats it and my pearl bubble eats it kind wierd i think.

[AJ_77]

Try a long, stretchy rubber band and wind it around the tube and nori about 6 times. That should hold it down - even a real hungry tang can't rip that off in sheets.