Tips/tricks for getting a 2.5-3" blonde Naso eating

[moriarty]

Ugh... My blonde Naso didn't make it. Was just starting to take different types of foods other than Ulva. I haven't lost a fish in over 3 years, and now this makes 2 in one week. Following along with this thread re: cyanide/collection.

 

[Dmorty217]

Yeah I will update with what happens to the skinny one and also the other that is eating with vigor now all types of food. Thanks for the link to that cyanide article, very informative even though it was 7 yrs ago

 

[Dmorty217]

Ugh... My blonde Naso didn't make it. Was just starting to take different types of foods other than Ulva. I haven't lost a fish in over 3 years, and now this makes 2 in one week. Following along with this thread re: cyanide/collection.

Sorry to hear this

 

[ca1ore]

I've given up on Naso's, blonde, red heads, brunettes .... Doesn't matter, I kill them all. No trouble generally with other Tangs so not sure why.

 

[RDtrack]

Have you tried New Era mini marine Frazer?

 

[anbosu]

I've had luck in the past with live brine. You could also try to scare up some live black worms.

 

[Dmorty217]

I've given up on Naso's, blonde, red heads, brunettes .... Doesn't matter, I kill them all. No trouble generally with other Tangs so not sure why.

Well Simon I was hoping for something other than that to be said by you, time will tell with these two. I'm not holding my breath to say the least

Have you tried New Era mini marine Frazer?

Had to order them since no place around me carries them for whatever reason

 

[Dmorty217]

I've had luck in the past with live brine. You could also try to scare up some live black worms.

I'm going by some bait stores today to try and find some

 

[CedzAquAddictio]

Like Steve said above, I've heard that cyanide is a common practice, but haven't seen any actual publications on the web. I imagine collectors and vendors want to keep that out of the public eye. Google yields tens of thousands of forum entries of Naso cyanide, but not many actual publications.

One trick that works for me with picky fish is to thaw out frozen fish food and mix it with pellets, flakes (the frozen food along with a few drops of garlic extract and selcon will moisten the dry food), and wrap all of that in seaweed (like a small burrito about the size of a flattened cigar). Most picky fish will come to investigate it on the clip, and when the pick at it, a little frozen, a little pellet, and a little flake will drift out. More than likely, they will eat something in there. It also helps acclimate fish to different food types. If the go after mysis, they are likely to get a pellet along with it, etc....

 

[Dmorty217]

Well bad news the skinny one died today, not that I'm surprised but non the less disappointed. We will see how the other fairs. Sounds like I won't know for a few more weeks if I'm in the clear

 

[jbvdhp]

I hope yours does well Derrick. My pacific is going after mysis pretty regularly now and is munching at nori. I wish you success with yours!

 

[Dmorty217]

IF and that's a big IF the tang lives past the 1 month or so mark then more than likely I will just let the my buddy who is housing the fish at the moment anyway pay me for the blonde. I'm still months away from moving and having my 625g setup so getting more fish at the moment isn't sound for me to do. Problem is I'm always looking for fish, I mean always and often I'm talking myself off a ledge... I don't always win that discussion that I have in my own head. I know it's shocking. As we speak I'm trying to keep telling myself all the reasons I shouldn't buy a Bandit angel in the next few weeks... Doesn't always go as well as I hoped for to say the least. I have a nice 220g I can put all sorts of fish in after I CP it to get rid of the ich. Doing that will cause another mini cycle at least with the amount of bristleworms I have in the system. Sad to report that I lost my foxface that was blind 2 days ago, hadn't seen the fish actively eat anything in the last 5 months...

 

[Dmorty217]

Like Steve said above, I've heard that cyanide is a common practice, but haven't seen any actual publications on the web. I imagine collectors and vendors want to keep that out of the public eye. Google yields tens of thousands of forum entries of Naso cyanide, but not many actual publications.

One trick that works for me with picky fish is to thaw out frozen fish food and mix it with pellets, flakes (the frozen food along with a few drops of garlic extract and selcon will moisten the dry food), and wrap all of that in seaweed (like a small burrito about the size of a flattened cigar). Most picky fish will come to investigate it on the clip, and when the pick at it, a little frozen, a little pellet, and a little flake will drift out. More than likely, they will eat something in there. It also helps acclimate fish to different food types. If the go after mysis, they are likely to get a pellet along with it, etc....

I'm going to try the nori wrapped melody in the future. It sounds like a great idea for getting picky fish to eat

 

[Masterofnonsense]

For tangs that may not be accustomed to an algae clip, you can crumple some dry seaweed into little flakes and then let them float around the tank. I had a powder blue in quarantine that would go after the floating bits before it learned to eat from the clip. Of course now the problem is exactly the opposite. It tears big sheets off the clip and then totally ignores them.

 

[Dmorty217]

For tangs that may not be accustomed to an algae clip, you can crumple some dry seaweed into little flakes and then let them float around the tank. I had a powder blue in quarantine that would go after the floating bits before it learned to eat from the clip. Of course now the problem is exactly the opposite. It tears big sheets off the clip and then totally ignores them.

We did this for the skinny one and it would pick at the pieces but not enough apparently since he didn't make it.