Achilles Tang Primer
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rangerD275
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I got mine when it was about 4.5 inches and it has done very well. I have a 150g with quite a bit of flow.
rangerD275
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I have mine in a 48x24x30 150g with lots of flow and he does fine. I will say though that mine is still fairly small (4.5 inches or so) and I will be upgrading to a bigger tank before he outgrows the one I have.
rangerD275
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What kind of frozen are you trying? Mine will eat Mysis and veggies like they're going out of style, but will not touch flake, or pellet yet.
Will yours eat live brine? If so, you can try what I did. Give him live brine for a few days straight and then start to add some small mysis to your feedings. After I got him to eat the small mysis for two weeks, I switched him to PE Mysis which is much larger but very nutritious. My fish go crazy for it.
Rwpdunne
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i give all the fish frozen mysis but the achilies ingores it i havent tried live brine
ill give that a go
but in saying that the achilies will eat reef gel
ryshark
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I am in the same boat as you, I have had my Achilles for months and all it will eat is nori. The only flake it will touch is SeaVeggies Mixed Flakes which is still tore up nori. It wont touch any frozen. I think I will try the Live Brine idea. Ranger- did you hatch the live brine yourself?
rangerD275
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No, I just bought some at my LFS. I think was only a couple bucks.
gws76
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Here's my pick of Rowdy.
Figured it was time to add him to the list. I aquired Rowdy from Petco about 1year ago. He was maybe 2.5" to 3" then. The hardest part was getting him to eat, so I thought. Luckily I had alot of red turf algae growing at the time and he was secretly eating it for awhile before I noticed. I knew that wouldn't last forever so I tried several different kinds of nori and seaweeds until I finally came across the red seaweed algae by TLF's. He went nuts over that stuff. Eventually we switched him over to green nori sheets. At about two months he tried the mysis shrimp we had been feeding the rest of the tank. Well, he started eating that and eventually took to omega one w/garlic flakes as well as spectrum thera A pellets. Awesome fish! He'll even consume small bubble algae. Every now and then I'll pull some frags out of the frag tank and let him clean the bubble algae off them.
Figured it was time to add him to the list. I aquired Rowdy from Petco about 1year ago. He was maybe 2.5" to 3" then. The hardest part was getting him to eat, so I thought. Luckily I had alot of red turf algae growing at the time and he was secretly eating it for awhile before I noticed. I knew that wouldn't last forever so I tried several different kinds of nori and seaweeds until I finally came across the red seaweed algae by TLF's. He went nuts over that stuff. Eventually we switched him over to green nori sheets. At about two months he tried the mysis shrimp we had been feeding the rest of the tank. Well, he started eating that and eventually took to omega one w/garlic flakes as well as spectrum thera A pellets. Awesome fish! He'll even consume small bubble algae. Every now and then I'll pull some frags out of the frag tank and let him clean the bubble algae off them.
Hi I have mine eating nori, but cannot get him to eat frozen. Tried brine and mysis. I did try some live food, admitting only once but he didnt touch.
Any other tips to try and get him feeding on something else but Nori?
Anyone tried freezing some frozen food onto the Nori so he eat the Brine shrimp at the same time as the Nori.
Any other tips to try and get him feeding on something else but Nori?
Anyone tried freezing some frozen food onto the Nori so he eat the Brine shrimp at the same time as the Nori.
maverickdia
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gws76
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We have a person locally that blends foods and sells them. I'm not sure what all she puts in there. I do know it contains nori, mysis, clam, cyclopeze. There are a few other things in there as well. But either way, there is nori blended in. If you have a food processor, you may want to try it. Just don't overblend them.
ryshark
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My Achilles was the exact same way. He would only eat Nori and also Nori Flakes from Julian Sprungs. However, eventually he started to go nuts over frozen Ocean Nutrition Formula 2. I was excited because that has a lot more ingredients in it and it soaks up garlic, selcon, vita-chem etc very well. So my advice would be try Frozen Formula 2. If he doesn't eat it right away trying soaking it, if he still doesn't eat it try it again once every week or so.
reefslugs
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Still have mine. Eats any thing I put in the tank. Finally got it's full tear drop. No worries here.
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1ucky
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This is my first ever Achilles...Picking off the rocks, glass, and eating Nori like crazy, but will not eat frozen/pellets as of yet. I've had him for a week....
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