Hippo tang

[meagheavz]

i have a hippo tang around 3-4 inches, eats like a fatty, but he barely goes for seaweed. he barely touches it.

 

[Deanos]

:cool3:

 

[meagheavz]

is there anything i can do, or will he be ok

 

[bigbris1]

They say that tangs will go for the meaty items first but need the veg. What I did with mine was first feed the seaweed until he ate a bunch, then fed the tank with mysis/plankton/etc.

 

[meagheavz]

he eats the other stuff like out of controll but he just doesnt go near the seaweed

 

[meagheavz]

 

[JLAudio]

Soak seaweed, with mysis, flakes etc in garlic and put a clump of it together, he'll eat a little of everything when its all meshed together

 

[cali_reef]

Soak seaweed, with mysis, flakes etc in garlic and put a clump of it together, he'll eat a little of everything when its all meshed together

Can you show me a picture of this "clump" while it is in water?

 

[rfny75]

After the seaweed sheet is soaked I would flake in the water into smaller pieces, my hippo tends to like it better that way.

 

[JLAudio]

Can you show me a picture of this "clump" while it is in water?

I assume your making an implication that a "clump" probably suggests overfeeding. I will clarify my description, possibly clump was a bit undiscriptive. I use a fork and stir mixture of mysis, nori, flakes, clams, garlic extract (depending on fish) than i will take a portion (i.e clump) attempting to get a little bit of everything with for the fish. I try and put only as much as can be eaten in a cpl mins and without falling to ground, and put in water, usually applying a few small "clumps" within a cpl min period of time.

Sorry no pics at the moment

 

[prattreef]

While Hippo Tangs will and do eat algae, they are far less reliant on it than other tang species and feed primarily as mid-water planktivores. Continue to offer the algae, but as long your fish is fat and healthy and eating well, I wouldn't worry about it. You might want to try a good quality spirulina flake food as an algae supplement.

 

[ZBT3091]

try formula two from ocean nutrition. they come in the trays. i seem to have a lot of success with all my tangs and even my trigger in eating this. it contains... "Plankton, gel binder, spinach, shrimp, krill, clams, krill hydrolysate, lettuce, peas, sardine meal, salmon egg oil, squid, kelp, lecithin, casein, spirulina, cod liver oil, paprika, vitamins ". i would think this is a decent substitute.
http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~idProduct~ON6137.html

 

[h20 freak]

I wud just kee[ a sheet of nori clipped to something in there and eventualy he'll go for it, I would say it's a good idea to get him to eat vegis I wouldnt feel comfortable if my tang only ate meat