Tang help!!!

[reefhead165]

Okay soo i have/had 3 tangs. 1- powder brown, 1-yellow tang, 1 -blue tang. Lost my powder brown oct 07 and i got him oct 06 soo i had him for a year. He started to get a real thin belly and he had a hard time eating and all and finally my anemone ate him. I didn't feed he a lot of alage b/c it caused a lot of hair alage problems. I think that was my main problem why i lost him. Now my yellow tang is getting a thin belly......i am feeding alage a lot more around 3 times a week and i soak the food in vita chem and garlic guard 3 cubes total. 1-formula 2 and 1-krill and1- ocean plankton (once a week) i let it sit in the frig. over night. and then feed it the next day. I typically feed all sorts of food mostly the bio pure brand about 3 cubes a day. This summer i plan i adding a 80 gallon refugium to my tank soo i can feed as much as i want along with running 2 skimmers. I don't get it tho my blue tang is nice and fat but my yellow tang has a pinched belly. What could i do to fixed this problem before i loose my yellow tang? thanks for any input..

 

[Reeftanks6]

Feed some nori soaked in some garlic. That should help some. My sailfin has a very little belly in the morning and when i add the nori his stomach is huge.

 

[goldmaniac]

nori nori nori

i don't soak nori in anything and I credit nori with curing serious lateral line disease in a yellow tang and a purple tang

\ tangs with lateral line disease = cheap!

 

[goldmaniac]

sorry I ramble
anyway, tangs get fat with nori. feed everyday if he has a pinched belly. two skimmers should take care of the nitrate problem, yes

 

[Racing1]

he needs to be fed nori daily. they are very active fish and need something to graze on at all times....

 

[tydtran]

Another thing to consider is aggression from the PBT that keeps your yellow away from offered food. When I feed, I put the nori on several clips throughout the tank to make sure that anyone who wants some can get to it.