Advice on feeding my Naso

[edub_50]

I'm perplexed! Please help me figure out what to feed my Naso!
I've tried a myriad of different foods with no success and I'd love any suggestions!

 

[edub_50]

Some info on him

Some info on him

He is in a 168 gallon reef tank with a like sized kole. They're both about 3.5" and share the tank with about 12 asst damsels. There's significant algal growth on the rocks which he is picking at but hardly enough to sustain him. These are the foods I've tried:

mysis shrimp with zoe, zoecon, xtreme garlic
spirulina enriched brine w/zoe, zoecon, xtreme garlic
spirulina flake
new life spectrum marine formula pellets
frozen emerald entree
formula one
spirulina formula
seaweed selects red, green and brown on a clip
romaine lettuce
broccoli
spinach

please help

 

[55semireef]

And he/she isn't interested it any of those foods. You offered some pretty decent foods. Is your Naso skinny?

 

[edub_50]

is he skinny?

is he skinny?

Yes he is becoming very skinny.
I thought that after some time, he would acclimate and then eat but I've no such luck. It's been 10 days now and I'm afraid he'll slip away soon. I'm desperate for ANY advice!

 

[84scrambler]

Mine eats formula 1 and formula 2 pellets. He doesnt go after the seaweed unless one of my other tangs rips it apart. It seems to incourage him.

 

[Asuran]

soak some seaweed in tank water and when its soft enough break it up in the water column and see if it will eat that way?

 

[EvilMel]

I had the same problem initially. Here's what I did that worked well:
get 4 small rocks and several different kinds of dried seaweed.
Rubberband the seaweed really close to the rock so that nothing sticks up. Drop the rocks in the tank and go away for a bit.

That's how mine started eating and now she is a fat little pig. She didn't like algae on the clip before but now she will totally go after it no matter how I put it in there.