Blue Tang best food besides small pellets

[Brian60077]

What are some of the best foods for a blue tang besides the small pellets that my clowns eat. Occasionally I will put some mysis shrimp in for the clowns and Colorado sunburst anemone.... but what do blue tangs prefer?

 

[Brian60077]

there he is swimming

 

[griss]

Tangs are primarily herbivores. An ideal food for them would be various species of macroalgae such as Ulva, Gracilaria, etc. If you are not able to source live macroalgaes, a good substitute is dried nori or other dried algae.

 

[Brian60077]

 

[wvned]

I feed a lot of this. I give them pellets, sheets of nori and LRS herbivore frenzy.