 » 3reef Navigation | | | | » Forum Menu | | | | » Aquarium Ads | | | 
And here too!
|  | | 
11-10-2007, 08:06 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 755
  |  Powder Brown Tang - I need some help!
OOOOOK So I've had my PBT for about 8 months now. For one, this is about the best luck I've ever had with a tang living this long. I was about to give up but this guy has given me renewed hope.
Now to the "HELP!" part:
He/She is starved!!  I noticed the poor thing was getting skinny, but I had no clue how underfed it had been until today when I was at an LFS and I saw another one there that they had just apparently gotten in stock. That one was in MUCH better condition and makes my PBT look downright GHASTLY!
I accept full responsibility for the condition of the Tang, as I have been very sparse in feedings lately because I've been fighting high nitrates and a huge algae breakout as a result. It is currently on TetraMarine Flake food and frozen brine shrimp. I've seen it grazing the rocks for algae (my guess, anyways). I recently bought some Feather Culerpa (sp?) for my fuge, and was told that Tangs will also eat that. I tried some and it kinda took a bite once but hasn't touched it since. 
So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I don't think it's too late. The Tang still is very active and eats readily (obviously because it's starved!). Thanks!!  _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Sand Star, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, 2 Rose BTAs  | 
|  | | Reef Links |  | |
11-10-2007, 08:12 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Missouri
Posts: 7
Karma: 1
 |
Try some Nori sheets. Tangs are high energy and need a lot of fuel. Mine gets Nori every day and a mixture of other stuff once or twice besides the Nori. I was in the same boat until I started feeding more. Now everyone is fat and happy.  
_________
_______________
Brian | |
| | |
11-10-2007, 08:29 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,181
  |
We have a Yellow Bellied Hippo Tang and a Kole Tang. They both have ravenous appetites. They are both constantly searching the tank for food while picking algae off of the glass and rock. I feed them a small 3 inchish sheet of Julian Sprungs Red or Green Seaweed a few times a week. They are also fed Formula Two frozen food. Of course they eat whatever we feed the rest of the tank, mysis, brine, formula one, or whatever else we feed. I also add vitamins and amino acids to their food a few times a week along with garlic extract. _________ 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
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance" | |
| | |
11-10-2007, 09:54 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 755
|
Is garlic a good way to entice them to eat something new? I have some "seaweed salad" stuff (or something along those lines - sheets of green food) that I've tried several times to no avail. It seems to be used to the flakes and frozen food, how do I get it on the nori sheets or the seaweed sheets? | |
| | |
11-10-2007, 10:52 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
Posts: 3,913
  |
If you can find an asian market or even a asian restaurant, ask for nori, we got 15 sheets, 10x15" sheets for $4.99 at a market. Its seaweed used to wrap various foods. _________ [center]Renaming Our Corals "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." Andre Gide | |
| | |
11-10-2007, 11:37 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 30
Posts: 1,021
|
from wikipedia ****
Nori, is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera. The term nori is also commonly used to refer to the food products created from these so-called "sea vegetables". Finished products are made by a shredding and rack-drying process that resembles papermaking. Japan, Korea, and China are the current major producers of nori, with total production valued at up to US $2 billion per year. _________ 4x24w T5ho 135ltr/35gal marine cube 15kg of liverock Mandarin Goby, Zoanthids(orange and yellow) Hammer coral , red and blue coralmorphs.  Got Questions? Need Answers?
 | |
| | |
11-11-2007, 04:49 AM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
Posts: 3,913
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by mattgeezer  from wikipedia ****
Nori, is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera. The term nori is also commonly used to refer to the food products created from these so-called "sea vegetables". Finished products are made by a shredding and rack-drying process that resembles papermaking. Japan, Korea, and China are the current major producers of nori, with total production valued at up to US $2 billion per year. | TMI? hahaha | |
| | |
11-11-2007, 04:52 AM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Millepora
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
Posts: 941
 |
Hey! Chap!
Garlic should work! At least you could give it a try!
Good luck! | 
| | |
11-11-2007, 05:00 AM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
Posts: 3,913
|
I miss bucky tang  | |
| | |
11-11-2007, 06:28 AM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,778
|
My tang and other fish did not like the "Red" nori very much.
They go nuts over regular green Nori, which I buy at the local Asian food store in a package that already has it ground up in very small flake sized pieces. ---
I just mix it in with regular food flakes and they all gobble it up.
Yes, garlic is a great appetite enhancer.
I saw a distinct increase in their feeding frenzy when I first used it.
You can get garlic extract at your local health food store. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott")
Last edited by omard; 11-11-2007 at 07:17 AM.
| |
| | | 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 | | |
|
