Flake food for Powder Blue tangs???

[skraj011]

I'd like to hear from those who have had success keeping powder blue tangs.

For the sake of convenience, I'd like to get mine to eat flake or pellet food. Has anyone successfully done that?

If they have, which brands?

 

[crobattt]

NLS+ pellets.. nuf said

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

Mine eats Omega One veggie flakes (with spirulina), and NLS pellets, in addition to most other foods.

 

[am3gross]

Mine will eat anything you put in the tank

 

[Wrench]

Mine eats everything. Even still, I feed nori daily. No substitute.

 

[McLoki]

Ocean nutrition - Formula 2 pellets. (small size - my sailfin is large enough to eat the large pellets but none of the other tangs are yet)

They also eat Rods food (Green) and Nori (all colors).

 

[Recty]

All PBTs I have kept have eaten NLS pellets, ON flakes and pellet. I feed that predominately and just throw in mysis from time to time, and nori every couple days.

But yes, pbts will gladly and in my experience easily take to eating flakes and pellets.

 

[rpjaws74]

mine is spoiled he only wants frozen!!

 

[NYCBOB]

i have mine for 4 weeks now. doesnt eat anything except live macro algae.

 

[SDguy]

I like NLS and ON pellets. Lately I've also bee feeding HBH spirulina pellets too.

 

[skraj011]

interesting thanks for replies.

I got mine 4" pbt yesterday from my LFS. it looked pretty good in the store with good color, not particularly thin, no signs of disease, although they said he was in tank with coppper b/c he had recently had ich.

Anyway i put him in my 6' tank with a female scribbled angel, a yellow-headed b-fly, and a bunch of smaller fish (fairy wrasses, gobies, halichoeres) who have been in there for ~ 1-3 years. This afternoon he is eating OSI spirulina flakes and frozen brine quite well.

He is quarreling with the b-fly, but neither is being too bad.

these are really spectacular fish.

 

[skraj011]

the pbt is still doing great. He's now eating spirulina flakes, ON flakes, and NLS pellets. He's awesome.

 

[crobattt]

good to hear, you might wanna give him some nori also