I think my foxface is confused....

[anaya]

His name is Carl. He is about 4" in length, very fat and healthy. Carl normally gets the ocean nutrition brand sheet algae both the red and green. He now has began to indulge himself in both live and frozen brine, frozen mysis and bits of frozen silversides that are scraps created from the feeding of my eel and large crabs. Not really sure if this is ok for him? What I have read up on him says he is a herbivore. Will this do anything bad for his health?

Antonio

 

[Gfoot2000]

i feed my tangs with algae before i throw in the mysis for my other fish, this way the majority of the tangs diet is algae. herbivores eats meat sometimes in the wild too as pods dwell in algaes

 

[Yogre]

My foxface eats anything/everything that goes in the tank. I can't think of any practical way of keeping him out of the trough when I feed the other fish, he's a hog.

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

My foxface eats anything/everything that goes in the tank. I can't think of any practical way of keeping him out of the trough when I feed the other fish, he's a hog.

+1 Both of my rabbitfish are big eaters and do quite well on all of the foods, both vegetable and meatsa, that I feed.

 

[snorvich]

Cheeseburgers too?

:celeb2:

They will eat most everything, including some coral if left hungry.

 

[Yogre]

Cheeseburgers too?

:celeb2:

They will eat most everything, including some coral if left hungry.

:lol:

I'll bet if I chopped a cheeseburger into small enough pieces my foxface would eat that, too!

 

[LisaD]

as long as he's getting plenty of greens, the other stuff should be fine.

 

[SecretiveFish]

This is one of the reasons that I ended up trading in my foxface, he was eating ALL of the food that was put into the tank even though I am pretty sure that he fell into the morbidly obese category. I mean ALL of the food too: mysis, pellets, large pieces of krill, flakes. Besides stealing almost all of the food that was put into the tank, he was a spaz that freaked everyone out...

 

[crobattt]

My foxface eats anything/everything that goes in the tank. I can't think of any practical way of keeping him out of the trough when I feed the other fish, he's a hog.

Mine is the same way, shrimp,scallops,nori,pellets,flakes, anything that goes in, he eats. He's huge.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

It is important even for reef "herbivores" to get plenty of "meat" like mysis etc. Normally the algae and plants they eat in the wild are crawling with little pods and critters and such which they ingest while eating the plant material. The dried algae we feed them in our aquariums obviously is not.

 

[anaya]

Thank you all for your responses. The point of the pods being on their natural food makes sense. I suppose I will just let Carl be a fat**s if that is the life style he chooses. I as well hang the algae in the morning then feed meaty items around lunch and before bed. So if there are so many other foxfaces doing the same it must be needed in their diet.
Again thank you all for sharing your experience with me.

Antonio