What fish eats nori in your tank?

[ShrimpChipGal]

I feed nori about once a day for my tangs mostly, but I have found lots of other fish in my tank also eat nori. Leopard wrasses, radiant wrasse, rhomboid fairy wrasse, lawn mower blenny, and now the butterfly fish eats nori.

What fish in your tank eats nori?

 

[snorvich]

I have several: all of my pyramid butterfly fish, all of my tangs, one of my leopard wrasses, one very "psycho" blenny that lives in it periodically, G. bellus pair, that I know of. Others may and I may miss them doing so.

 

[mitsurs01]

of course my tangs, my clowns will occasionally nip at it as well as my chromis

 

[ShrimpChipGal]

Forgot to add to the list: Cleaner wrasse, shark nose goby, and pylei fairy wrasse.

 

[phil519]

Obviously the tang.

Less obvious - the female true perc (the male doesn't seem to care for it).
The yellow coris wrasse
The firefish (yes - when the others are not around - it goes up to eat)
The YT damsel - it doesn't go up but will grab pieces that break off.

My cardinalfish and jawfish just stare and wonder what the fuss is. :lol:

 

[beezer06840]

queen angel: yes
personifer angel: yes
blueface angel: yes
flame angel: yes
powder blue tang: yes
cleaner wrasse: yes
osc. clowns: no
lyretail anthias: no

 

[agreeive?fish]

my tangs, clown trigger, scatt, large/drawf angels, columbian "sharks", mollies, sissortail dart fish

 

[ShrimpChipGal]

my tangs, clown trigger, scatt, large/drawf angels, columbian "sharks", mollies, sissortail dart fish

That's gotta be interesting to see!

 

[tcwoodrn]

If the tangs rip a piece loose and it floats by him, my yellow watchmen goby will gobble it up.

 

[corigan]

YWG, Purple Firefish, Lyretail Anthias', Scopas Tang, Sixline wrasse, and my clowns all eat it. Really the only fish I have that won't even look at it is a bangaii cardinal.

 

[Springmo]

I have several: all of my pyramid butterfly fish, all of my tangs, one of my leopard wrasses, one very "psycho" blenny that lives in it periodically, G. bellus pair, that I know of. Others may and I may miss them doing so.

Funny, my bellus won't touch the stuff. Do you soak it in garlic or anything?

 

[Jurgs]

My yellow tang and Midas Blenny love it. So does the yellow wrasse and what ever bits float off the my fire fish and chromis eat up.

 

[SDguy]

None, I never put any in the tank

 

[Fishfreak218]

Almost all of the fish in my 90g. reef do; here's a list of the fish that do eat it.
2" Niger Trigger fish
3.5" yellow tank
4.5" blue hippo tang
2" purple tang
2x Percula clown fish
Sixline wrasse
Fiji blue devil damsel fish
yellowtail blue damsel fish

 

[smoothdog]

My golden headed sleeper would tear the stuff up until he was chased out of the tank.

 

[Blownsvt]

my stock list

2 occelarius clowns
yellow tang
naso tang
hippo tang
kole tang
double saddle butterfly
picasso trigger
5 green chromis
six line wrasse
diamond goby

of them the only one that i see eat the nori regularly is the yellow tang. occasionally i will see the hippo pick at it but none of the others do.

 

[rydr119]

Both tangs and the rabbit of course, also my flame wrasses and tomato clowns, the anthias sometimes but as often as everyone else.

 

[brownjesus15]

Flame hawk, took him 6 mos to learn.

 

[MAMGM]

My tangs, flame angel, clown, canary wrasse all eat it. Even my cleaner shrimp gets into the act sometimes!

 

[Lightsluvr]

For my feeding cycle, I feed meaty frozen food first. Then I moisten dry nori in tank water and rub it between my fingers so that it floats off in the tank in different sizes... amazingly, all of our fish except the green Mandarins will go after pieces of the nori fitting their mouth sizes... It has just become part of the feeding 2x per day. In addition, I place three sheets of nori on the side wall between Sure Grip 100 magnets. The magnets are strong enough to hold the nori in place while the tangs and Rabbitfish tear into it...

Here is my fish community:

(1) Vlamingii Tang - 12"
(1) Blue Hippo Tang - 5"
(1) Blonde Naso tang - 5.5"
(1) Yellow Tang - 4.5"
(1) Red Sea Sailfin Tang - 5"
(1) Magnificent Foxface Rabbitfish - 5.5"
(1) Melanurus Wrasse - 3.5"
(1) Yellow Coris Wrasse - 3"
(1) Six-line Wrasse - 1.5"
(1) Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse - 1.5"
(1) Coral Beauty Angelfish - 2.5"
(1) Diamond Watchman Goby - 5"
(2) ORA Ocellaris Clowns - 1.5-2"
(2) ORA Black & white Ocellaris Clowns - 2.5"
(2) Green Mandarin M/F - 2"
(3) Dispar Anthia M/2F - 2-2.5"
(3) Red Firefish - 2"
(1) Green Chromis - 2"
(1) Bangaii Cardinalfish - 2"
(4) Cleaner Shrimp - 3"+

As stated above, have seen them all go after nori in the water column, except for the mandarins...

LL