Main Menu
| |
Get on the Map!
| |
Forum Menu
| | 
01-23-2008, 03:07 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 407
|  Kole Tang Getting To Thin!!!
My Kole Tang will eat nothing but what it picks off the glass and rocks I have tried the seaweed sheets that my Yellow Tang eats and It will not touch them the brine or mysis what else should I try or is this normal for a Kole?  | 
|  | | Reef Links |  | |
01-23-2008, 03:10 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
Posts: 977
|
soak the shrimp in garlic, it may tempt him - but if he still wont eat i'd take him back to the lfs _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | |
| | |
01-23-2008, 03:10 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lancaster Ohio Age: 36
Posts: 195
|
Do you have any calurpa Algea in your sump? rip some out and feed him it they love it if you dont have any is there anyone close to you that does. Lfs anything Thats what mine eat most of the time I rip big hand fulls out and feed it to them. you can also go to the grocery store and buy seaweed in the vegetables alot of the time I cant remember what it is called now. but they like it also. Is your yellow tang bulleyinng it they are bad about that. | |
| | |
01-23-2008, 03:30 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
Posts: 4,485
|
Hey Crabby Jim, my Kole Tang did the same thing. He would only graze at the LR and the glass. He did that for about 2-3 weeks. Now, he eats everything I put in the tank. I think they just need time to adjust and/or see other fish eating. Wait a little. Luna _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
| | |
01-23-2008, 03:45 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,163
  |
Ocean Nutrition's Formula 2(Frozen) thaw out one cube, a couple of drops of garlic extract(Kent is a good one). He should tear it up, we have a Kole that will eat anything we feed him but he loves this....  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
"The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance" | |
| | |
01-23-2008, 05:35 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: St. Paul/Woodbury, Minnesota Age: 50
Posts: 1,181
|
What Baxter said! _________ 75g reef with Nova Extreme 8 bulb HO T-5 lighting, refuge, Remora skimmer, DSB, Seio powerheads, Acro's, LPS corals, assorted zoo's & mushrooms, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Blue Cleaner Goby , Cleaner, Fire and Sexy Shrimp, Coco Worm, T.Crocea Clam, Derasa Clam
120g FOWLR, 260w Orbit power compact lights, Remora Pro skimmer, 30g DIY Sump/Refuge, DSB,Seio Power heads, Powder Blue Tang, Purple Tang, Flag Fin Angel, False Eye Puffer, Copperbanded Butterfly and a Moorish Idol  | |
| | | Reef Links |  | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -7. The time now is 02:33 PM. |
