Feeding Clown Tang

[ohartman13]

What is the best specific foods for my Clown Tang? He will eat mysis & brine but has not taken to the pellets/seaweed on clip. Want to be sure he’s getting fed. Thanks!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

@Jay Hemdal can help you out!

 

[Clowning_Around72]

What is the best specific foods for my Clown Tang? He will eat mysis & brine but has not taken to the pellets/seaweed on clip. Want to be sure he’s getting fed. Thanks!

You can try the frozen angelfish feeds to help if it is only eating meaty food.

I like the hikari seaweed pellets. Plenty of fish usually take to them quickly.

 

[ohartman13]

What is the best specific foods for my Clown Tang? He will eat mysis & brine but has not taken to the pellets/seaweed on clip. Want to be sure he’s getting fed. Thanks!

You can try the frozen angelfish feeds to help if it is only eating meaty food.

I like the hikari seaweed pellets. Plenty of fish usually take to them quickly.

Got it, thank you. This is my first time with this kind of tang & I’ve noticed he doesn’t care for the seaweed sheets.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Got it, thank you. This is my first time with this kind of tang & I’ve noticed he doesn’t care for the seaweed sheets.

Small clown tangs are actually more omnivorous, they go after protein foods more than the adults do (this applies to a number of different tangs). Skip or go really light on the brine shrimp. Fish love it but it is poor in nutrition. I like NLS pellets - it may take a bit of time for the tang to adapt to those.

Dried Nori is overrated as a fish food. Some of it is oven roasted, which just isn't good for fish foods. You can find air dried Nori, and Two Little Fishies sells some good dried algae of different types. Your tang will eventually start to take that, so keep trying it.

 

[ohartman13]

Got it, thank you. This is my first time with this kind of tang & I’ve noticed he doesn’t care for the seaweed sheets.

Small clown tangs are actually more omnivorous, they go after protein foods more than the adults do (this applies to a number of different tangs). Skip or go really light on the brine shrimp. Fish love it but it is poor in nutrition. I like NLS pellets - it may take a bit of time for the tang to adapt to those.

Dried Nori is overrated as a fish food. Some of it is oven roasted, which just isn't good for fish foods. You can find air dried Nori, and Two Little Fishies sells some good dried algae of different types. Your tang will eventually start to take that, so keep trying it.

Appreciate the pointers. What specific nori color? And you suggest Two Little Fishies?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Appreciate the pointers. What specific nori color? And you suggest Two Little Fishies?

Yes - that's Julian Spring's company. His product line is called "Sea Veggies". This one is likely to be the most accepted by your tang:

Julian Sprung’s SeaVeggies® Green Seaweed

Julian Sprung’s SeaVeggies® Green Seaweed (Porphyra yezoensis). Super nutritious Green Seaweed sheets. Ideal for marine herbivores such as Tangs and Surgeonfish, Moorish Idols, Parrotfish, Angelfish, large Butterflyfish, and freshwater fishes, such as Cichlids and Goldfish. Available in three...

twolittlefishies.com

 

[ohartman13]

Appreciate the pointers. What specific nori color? And you suggest Two Little Fishies?

Yes - that's Julian Spring's company. His product line is called "Sea Veggies". This one is likely to be the most accepted by your tang:

Julian Sprung’s SeaVeggies® Green Seaweed

Julian Sprung’s SeaVeggies® Green Seaweed (Porphyra yezoensis). Super nutritious Green Seaweed sheets. Ideal for marine herbivores such as Tangs and Surgeonfish, Moorish Idols, Parrotfish, Angelfish, large Butterflyfish, and freshwater fishes, such as Cichlids and Goldfish. Available in three...

twolittlefishies.com

Thank you!

 

[Clowning_Around72]

Thank you!

I also use that exact brand of seaweed sheets. Very high quality

 

[LOZReefer]

My Yellow Tang also didn't take to the Nori at first. I started cutting very thin but long strips (maybe 1cm x 5cm; as to not waste a bunch of Nori) and put it in the tank on the nori clip so that it would flow/wiggle around and eventually catch the eye of my tang to investigate and as soon as he took the first bite he was hooked.