New Tang feeding

[scott11]

Picked up a Kole Tang. He is grazing well, but does not seem interested in any nori. I have used a clip at the water line and attaching the nori to rocks in the tank.

Any ideas how to get the tang to recognize the sheets?

 

[kmbyrnes]

Just give him time. As long as he is eating, he will be fine. Some of my tangs attack the clip, others swim by once in awhile. Different strokes ...

 

[cloak]

You could try cutting the Nori into 1/8" x 1/8" pieces and feed it like you would flake food. You might want to soak the pieces in a cup of water for a few minutes beforehand though. This will soften them up a little & keep them from floating into the overflow. GL.

 

[Dmorty217]

Some fish will never take to nori no matter what tricks you try

 

[SLOreefer805]

Use garlic drops. Those will encourage fish to eat. If you buy the nori from the petstore, usually it has garlic already added, however you end up paying more than just going to your local asian market to purchase the nori.

 

[scooter31707]

Kole Tangs are a little picky. I have had 3 different ones during my time and 2 of them were hard to get eating. It took about a week to get going. Maybe get in touch with the seller and see what they were feeding it and try that.

 

[Maritimer]

My kole (which I haven't had for very long) has so far shown zero interest in nori, with or without garlic. She does seem to enjoy banging on an algae wafer from time to time though - the kind you'd feed to a freshwater Plecostomus. She also will pick up floating mysis and such, even though she's not really very well designed for that.

I think the bristletooth group's natural diet tends more toward film algaes and detritus, rather than macro-algaes such as nori. They're more likely to go about munching on whatever's on the rock/glass/equipment . . . (Mine has a fondness for the heater cord. Go figure.)

HTH

~Bruce

 

[ca1ore]

Garlic is pointless if you ask me (and maybe even damaging). Most fish, given a little time to settle in, will eat. Bristles just don't seem to be big nori eaters - at least none of mine have been. It took my current Chevron over a year to finally decide it was OK. They're slime/film algae and detritovores more than true herbivores, as the prior post notes.

 

[Dmorty217]

Garlic is pointless if you ask me (and maybe even damaging). Most fish, given a little time to settle in, will eat. Bristles just don't seem to be big nori eaters - at least none of mine have been. It took my current Chevron over a year to finally decide it was OK. They're slime/film algae and detritovores more than true herbivores, as the prior post notes.

Garlic + fish = Bad