For those of you with fat tangs

[GvineReefer]

Haha, LMAO. That is the fattest PBT I've ever seen!! I don't feel so bad for my female naso. I call her fat a** all the time cause she's done nothing but gain weight since I got her. Too funny!

 

[Masterofnonsense]

I like a good combo of algae and meaty items. Algae in the clip all day for grazing, and a morning and evening feeding of the meaty stuff. I use mysis, nutramar ova, and Rod's food.

 

[Lynnmw1208]

I snapped a few photos today of my baby kole tang. Look at that belly!

for some reason this pic is a lot orange-er than the others lol

 

[Amoore311]

Thanks for the kind words

Although he is no longer in my care, I'm proud to be able to get such a difficult fish to such a healthy body size.

Honestly, he did eat 90% of the food that went into the tank lol. The Yellow Tang and Bluejaw trigger were substantially skinnier haha.

For those of you having trouble with tang aggression...... feed the **** out of them. Once they are as fat as mine they won't have too much trouble dealing with tank mates.

 

[frog.pauley]

Not trying to hi-jack..but where did the Kole come from...I have my heart set on one...But did my usual rc research and am not full convinced they are so easy to car for as LA says. I had a huge failure before and am being way over cautious this time. I dont wanna kill anything!

 

[Eric the half-bee]

EC, I feed every other day. Lately, ocean nutrition flakes/pellets, 6 sehets of nori. Also occ. feed live gulf shrimp, frozen squid,etc.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Our skinny side...

Not so skinny side:lol2:

and they all have to eat whats left after the sohal

Pellet daily x1:
NLS--some f 1,2,3mm pellets
ON form 1-2
Hikari A
freeze dried cyclopeeze a pinch

Alternate frozen daily:
pe mysis
ON day bine plus, reef, form 2
H20 day form 1-2 with 50/50 mix
Rods
Roggers

2 clips of red, green, brown ON seaweed/week. They last about 40 seconds if you add both tanks together:lmao:

 

[Lynnmw1208]

Not trying to hi-jack..but where did the Kole come from...I have my heart set on one...But did my usual rc research and am not full convinced they are so easy to car for as LA says. I had a huge failure before and am being way over cautious this time. I dont wanna kill anything!

I got him at my LFS. I didn't even quarantine him as I have heard kole tangs do not do well in QT. The same day I brought him home he was picking at my rocks I would try to get one locally from a trusted LFS.

 

[jcw]

Amazing on so many fronts.

I'm sure it's even better in person.

Our skinny side...

Not so skinny side:lol2:

and they all have to eat whats left after the sohal

Pellet daily x1:
NLS--some f 1,2,3mm pellets
ON form 1-2
Hikari A
freeze dried cyclopeeze a pinch

Alternate frozen daily:
pe mysis
ON day bine plus, reef, form 2
H20 day form 1-2 with 50/50 mix
Rods
Roggers

2 clips of red, green, brown ON seaweed/week. They last about 40 seconds if you add both tanks together:lmao:

 

[elegance coral]

Thanks for all the info and pic's. Looks like I need to go grocery shopping for my tang. I've been soaking green nori in a mixture of Brightwell amino acids, and SeaChem's vitamins and amino acids, then clipping it in the tank. I also feed small red krill, reef caviar, and cyclops. The Powder Blue doesn't seem very interested in these foods though. She just eats the nori, and picks at the rocks. I don't really have algae growing in my tank, so she can't be getting much off the rocks. She stays gut loaded though. Her spine is pretty obvious from her head all the way to her tail. Hopefully, if I keep her belly full, she'll pack on the pounds.
Here's a pic of my poor anorexic little fish.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

pe mysis will add wt and it's fine as long as you get tangs their "greens" in NLS/seaweed/frozen etc.

 

[Dog boy Dave]

Video of tangs eating

Video of tangs eating

I keep a couple of tangs in my reef tank. I feed them 1/2 sheet of the suschi wrap each day. They also steal a good bit of frozen squid when i hand feed my copperband. Thats all i feed the fish and thats all they need. However, I have found that feeding this amount leads to a negative nutrient situation in my system and eventually the tank will tend to drift towards the cleaner end of the spectrum. When i see that my DSB begins to stop maintaining cyno in the dead zones i suppliment the food with a couple of days addition of a sinking pellet food. Just a hand full and it all sinks so the fish take a while to get it all. This gives my nutrients a little bump up but it isnt really for the fish. Besides what i feed them they also all graze constantly and they eat a lot of coral and tube worm slime. Here is a video of feeding time.

http://www.youtube.com/user/aDogboydave#p/a/u/1/ESpeZI8s5Qo

 

[launchnukes]

Achilles, blue hippo, yellow, purple, and kole. 1/2 sheet of nori every day and a good mix of frozen stuff every night. (Mysis, brine, etc)

 

[mil hse]

Stanley-Reefer i saw yours pics and immediately got up and put another nori sheet in the tank!!! and thats there 2nd today
your fish look amazingly healthy congrats

 

[JSeymour]

Had to get a pic of my yellow fin on here. Ignore the corals, I'm babysitting while some remodeling is done.

Here is her when I first got her, she was supposed to be a small dussumieri tang. Terrible pic but shows how thin she was. Her new tank was up and running within a month.

She lives with a small harlequin tuskfish, that only gets scraps. The autofeeder feeds four times a day, a mixture of Ocean Nutrition pellets and flakes, chopped nori, freeze dried plankton, and spirulina flakes. I also enjoy pushing the feed button. She also gets a half sheet of red, green, or brown nori in the morning and evening, devoured in minutes. A frozen cube of Formula II and a few chunks of my own frozen concoction round out the day's feeding.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Don't over use the nori. Personally I have never used it and have relied on the ON seaweed selects red/green/brown. I cut about 3"x3" pieces and put 2 of each kind on a clip twice a week. NLS, ON, Hikari pellets and frozen have decent amounts of plant matter in them so the seaweed is a treat-and they destroy it.

I have alot of fish in small volumes of water....vodka transitioning to ecobak pellets and my big Deltec skimmer are allowing me to do it with the corals.

I could see myself with a FOWLR tank, but never just a coral tank!

Seymour--that sucker looks like a grouper in the 2nd pic!!!!!

 

[eskymick]

Not so skinny side:lol2:

WOW!! That naso would make a hearty dinner for two!! ;-)
Great job!

 

[SDguy]

Your fish are gorgeous!!

 

[JSeymour]

Don't over use the nori. Personally I have never used it and have relied on the ON seaweed selects red/green/brown.

I guess I should clarify, I use Seaweed Selects.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Thanks SDguy--but the pyramids still remember you called them "brown faces"....they said you can kiss there:

:lol2: