Achilles Tang question

[hihikeke]

I currently purchased an Achilles Tang, everything looks fine to me but just not eating my food. He is swimming, playing with the others in the tank, going in and out from the rocks, seems happy with his new life.

However, this is the 3rd day he has been here without eating, brine shrimps, seaweed nor mysis shrimps, but he is dipping on rocks for alage, so is it a good sign?

 

[geaux xman]

Try nori rubberband to a rock, bloodworms, and soaking food in some selecon.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

What kind of seaweed are you offering?

 

[humaguy]

I would try live blackworms or live brine...

 

[jt_milstead]

I would try a algae based flake...

 

[Haffs09]

+1 on geaux man's recommendation. I had trouble getting my achilles to eat when it was in QT. I offered it frozen bloodworms and it started eating. From then on, I slowly introduced all sorts of other foods which it accepted over time.

Oddly, it still won't touch nori.

 

[96gts]

Try mashed up the soaked nori and see whether it will eat out of the water column. I had luck to get it to start eating when I had mine.

 

[MrTuskfish]

3 days isn't really much to worry about. Achilles are not easy fish to acclimate. If he's grazing on the LR, he should come around. If you didn't use a QT, watch him closely for parasites. Although they're considered herbivores (IMO & IME) most tangs will eat meaty stuff first. the bloodworms are great; spirulina enriched mysis, PE mysis, often are scarfed right away.

 

[hihikeke]

GOOD NEWS!!! He started to eat last nite, I rubberband a sheet of seaweed (OMEGA ONE super veggie), at first he didn't want to try it at all, after 3 hours he ate atleast 25% of the whole sheet.

He is still very active today, swimming in n out, everywhere with others. One thing is the Purple Tang sometimes would go against him, good that the Achilles didn't care about it much. But he looks like that he got a tiny scratch on his back, hope that he can recover back soon, I hate to see white spots on him anytime sooner.