Tang 101 - Feeding - Vitamins - Etc...

[Vegas_ReefMan]

Hello, and I personally want to thank you all for your help in advance.




I have a 225 gallon tank with (in tank ruler order) 1) 7" Male Naso Tang 2) 4" Blue Dot Grouper 3) 5" Purple Tang 4) 5" Desjardini Tang

I have the following questions.

1) How often should they be fed, and how much food? Meaning specifically, how many sheets of seaweed selects (i feed them the brown, red and green normally in combination) should i feed daily and at what intervals?

2) How do you soak the algae, as i heard that you should always soak it in garlic, selcon and vita chem (to prevent illness), but do you ring it out before placing it in the tank? Wont the tank just wash the vitamins and garlic and selcon out of the algae within a minute or two of being on the clip in the tank?

3) How many of New Life Spectrum's Thera +A for large fish pellets should i feed them and how often? Should i soak these also as they dont break down to easy in water?

5) Is brine shrimp not worth feeding the fish? I heard that they are like potato chips for fish, and therefore not nutritious at all? Should i switch them to mysis shrimp that is soaked in the selcon, vitachem and garlic? If brine shrimp are ok to feed them, should i soak them as well?

4) Is it possible to have too much current in a tank? I have an iwaki 100mdrlt pump for the return at 10' of head, hooked to a wavy sea plus wavemaker (which i love). I also have a rio 2100+ powerhead in the tank pushing 692 gph. Is this too much current?

5) I have a sump full of red gracillaria and chaetomorphia, should i feed them this as well? I have tried the red gracillaria (via hooking to a clip) but they dont like it? What advise do you have in terms of how much to feed, and how to feed? Should it be soaked in selcon, vita chem, and garlic?

6) My 7" male Naso has a bloated belly always, i dont know if it is because i refill his clip 3 times a day with about 8 sheets of seaweed selects each day? Is he overeating? If it is not, could it be dropsy? I will add pictures to this post tomorrow.

Thanks again for your help!

Vegas Reefer
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[Vegas_ReefMan]

I forgot to add this as well:

7) I feed the 4" blue dot grouper 1 silverside a day stuffed with about 5 New Life Spectrum's Thera +A for large fish pellets and i soak the fish in garlic extreme, vita chem and zoecon. I alternate days with krill done this way on one day, and the next day it is a silverside. Is this enough food for him? Is this a complete diet?

8) Should i add zoe con to the list of pre-soaking items for the food?

Thanks again for your help

 

[jda]

I would feed them 2-3 times per day. Feed them enough that they grow an inch or two a year. Get them a good amount of protein - pellets or mysis are good for this.

 

[thor32766]

and greens, romaine lettuce, algea sheets etc.

 

[Vegas_ReefMan]

thanks... and what about the other questions?

 

[jda]

I don't feed nori, so I don't know anything about it. Brine is near worthless. Mysis is better. So is shredded up shrimp, clam, mussel, squid, etc. I don't soak food in vitamins.

You could offer the grouper other types of fresh meat. Gut loading the silversides is a good idea.

That is not too much flow. I run a full out Ampmaster 3600 on my 210 with a mag 12 and that doesn't even phase the fish any.

My tangs like cheato. I don't feed it that often, but they devour it when I feed it.

 

[Vegas_ReefMan]

I will add mysis to their diet and some shredded meats. Mine like chaeto also but they hate the red gracilaria. Thanks Jda, much appreciated...

 

[snorvich]

Use Nori occasionally as it is excellent nutritionally. Avoid brine unless it is newly hatched and gut loaded with Selcon. No problem with the flow.

 

[Vegas_ReefMan]

Thanks...