What to feed Yellow Eye Tang?

[d2mini]

Just got one yesterday and so far he won't eat the Rod's Food or either of the two different kinds of Nori that I have. He's just picking at my rock but my rock is pretty bare of algae as far as I can tell. He's is very active though. So what do these guys prefer?

 

[leeb.]

my tang wouldn't eat nori at first, but it ate frozen mysis right away

 

[d2mini]

Anyone else? I want to go pick up something at the LFS before this guy starts dropping weight.

 

[evokevin]

mine eats everything we throw in the tank. flake, brine shrimp, mysis, etc... give him a few days to realize what the food source is.

 

[Blitzburggirl]

Mine goes nutso for table shrimp.. just pinch off a itty bit and drop it in

 

[Sitarangi]

Mine grazes on the algae on the glass. It goes crazy for Formula 1&2 pellets and all types of frozen foods. It didn't touch the nori until I added a yellow tang a couple weeks ago. Once the yellow started to eat the nori, my kole had to compete.

 

[d2mini]

This fish is retarded!
Even with food floating right around him, he just continues to pick on the rocks.

 

[betamed]

tie or rubber band the nori to a rock. Its a good way to transition them from grazing on rocks(the way the fish has sustained itself for its entire life) to eating in captivity.

 

[rssjsb]

+1

It took my kole a month or more to figure out that the stuff floating around its head was food. The remarkable thing isn't that they don't figure out what we want them to do, it's that they do.

 

[extreme5450]

since this fish is a vegan i would feed it any thing that has veggies in it like nori or algae flakes. its a good sign its eating off your rocks and will keep it goin til it figtres out what is food

 

[klepto]

Try chopping up some (unroasted) nori into small pieces and basting it into the water column. My kole wouldn't graze on nori- only pick floating pieces up. I have seen other larger ones that will eat large krill and nearly anything and have no trouble grazing next to other tangs..

 

[sneeyatch]

Ctenochaetus tangs eat a lot of detritus too - not just algae. As long as it's picking off the rock and it looks good, keep trying to introduce foods to eat, but it should really be happy all day long grazing on the rock, overflows, glass and even the sand.

 

[yahutch]

I have gotten a few hard to feed fish eating PE frozen mysis .

 

[d2mini]

Ya, maybe I'll grab some frozen mysis.
I'm glad he's picking at the rocks and is active.
Hopefully he is finding more to eat than I can see, because my rocks look pretty bare/algae free to me.

 

[d2mini]

ok he FINALLY got it. Started eating the rod's food. Yeesh. :beer:

 

[klepto]

Good stuff! Be sure to get it plenty of marine greens in addition to the meaty items..