McCosker's wrasse eating nori

[Yogre]

Recently I've noticed when I put green seaweed in a veggie clip for my yellow tang, my McCosker's wrasse gets pretty busy tearing into it as well.

I thought these wrasses were carnivores. Is he just eating the nori because it's there, or do y'all think he's missing something in his diet?

The tank gets fed Rod's Fish-Only blend once daily, and the wrasse is quite plump. I'd like to feed more often, but I'm battling a hair algae infestation at the moment and don't want to add to the nutrient problem.

 

[H.Tanaka]

I have not heard that the wrasse takes Nori (Asakusa-nori) at all. It is very interesting.

Please note that some Nori includes spicy ingredients.

 

[ritter6788]

Almost every carnivore in my tank, including a sixline wrasse eats at the veggie sheets I put in my tank. I don't know why. I had a tomato clown that loved the stuff. It has garlic added in it so maybe that's what draws them to it. I also think the other fish see the tang and blenny get excited and join in for the heck of it.

 

[revaltion131]

There was a thread very recently about this. Wrasses are pigs and it's not that unusual.

 

[snorvich]

I have two (out of five) leopard wrasses that eat nori, and one flasher wrasse eats nori. I was very surprised.

 

[Apercula]

My solarensis is a nori eater too.

 

[Cerebral Fish]

It sounds like he decided that the thing missing from his diet was nori. It's good stuff.

 

[camp]

I feed my tangs clumps of broccoli and I find my wrasses pecking at it.

 

[Yogre]

Interesting, sounds like there's no need to worry about any wrasse dietary deficiency. If anything, I'll have to increase the amount of nori available at feedings.

Just a bit of a surprise since I've been feeding nori to the tang and the little wrasse goofball just now discovered it.

Thanks everyone for the replies!

 

[rishma]

my rubrisquamis likes nori too

 

[Tate]

I have a Hoeven's Wrasse that pigs out on the nori clip. I found that highly unusual until seeing this thread.

 

[rekn]

I have not heard that the wrasse takes Nori (Asakusa-nori) at all. It is very interesting.

Please note that some Nori includes spicy ingredients.

thats amazing because just on rc there has to be 100 threads saying the same thing...and the kicker is its usually a flasher, cleaner or six line wrasse doing it

 

[lilalove]

My canary and melanurus eat from the Nori clip too. Actually I rubberband it to a rock and place it among my rockwork. At first I thought...maybe the nori attracts pods or something. I've never seen them take chunks of it like my naso does, but they do pick at it.

 

[MTH]

It seems to be pretty common in a captive situation for a wrasse to start eating nori. I have a cleaner wrasse that eats nori with my tangs. It'll dart in when given the chance to take a bite even when the tangs are in a feeding frenzy.

 

[lfbmike]

my canary wrasses pecks at nori. also i have a blue-green chromis that eats like specks of nori floating around.

 

[wrasseguy2]

all of my fairys and flashers have always loved this stuff