hippo tang

[paats]

Got two weeks ago.He/She is not touching the food I give.Eats off the rocks and tank walls well and looks great so far but I know it`s not going to survive on that.Trying to feed flake and seaweed sheets.Any suggestions?Really cool fish.Alone in a 125g.TKS

 

[Anonymous]

Throw some live brine in the tank to induce feeding in the short term, and some frozen mysis shrimp as a staple food. They are planktivores for the most part. They should be fed a mix of mostly meaty foods with supplements of nori, seaweed selects, etc.

 

[EVO]

Yesh try different things. I used to think my hippo was a vegan then I started chopping up shrimp into little bits and tossing it in the tank... it went nuts... can't get enough... since then it's been eating just about any type of food. Even my yellow tang eats shrimp

 

[Anonymous]

My yellow will eat anything you put in front of it. Squid, myasis, brine, krill, algae of any kind etc cyano, xenia..oops. Total pig. What are you feeding it?

 

[JohnD]

I agree with Matt. Add brine shrimp, but soak them in vita-chem or some other suppliment for 30 minutes. I feed my hippo tang frozen cubes of Ocean Nutrition, along with Seaweed Selects, blanched broccolli. Give them all a try.

HTH