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Old 09-08-2008, 08:34 PM
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Unlike other tangs which eat algae in the wild, the Hippo or Pacific Blue Tang is omnivorous. It eats primarily meaty food.
Accordingly, I feed it pieces of shrimp and it gets its algae from the pieces of nori which I feed the other tangs.
I soak the food in garlic extreme and add selcon from time to time.
These fish are ich magnets so the garlic is a good preventative.
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Old 09-09-2008, 12:47 AM
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Mine just eats algae from rocks and glass.
This fish is so fat it's belly is like a drum.
Will have to sale her soon and get a smaller one for my 60Gal tank
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