Getting Tangs to Eat Seaweed

[Largeangels]

Not to detract from the original post but some fish are just picky about their food. I got my purple tang and powder blue at about the same time and they were the tiniest I've seen. Powder blue eats everything and grazes on rocks all day long. Purple will also graze all day long and eat brine shrimp, pellets, flakes, nori PE and virtually everything else I put in the tank but will NOT eat Hikari mysis to this day years later.

 

[Louis Z]

I'm asking because i'd like to grow macro in a refugium and use it for a food source.

Nori , grape caulerpa, ulva . Caution on ulva , some reefers say it takes over in DT .

My Paki Butterfly is a mysis eating machine. But that is about it.

I also feed blood worms , and pacific plankton (krill) . Mine does pick at crushed crab parts on the bottom.

 

[cutter2001]

So the tang is eating sea weed off of the clip. I just left it in for 48 hours. I also did not feed anything else so they destroyed it eventually. Now all of them will eat it immediately putting it into the tank.

 

[cutter2001]

So the tang is eating sea weed off of the clip. I just left it in for 48 hours. I also did not feed anything else so they destroyed it eventually. Now all of them will eat it immediately putting it into the tank.

Thank you all for your advise and expertise.

 

[Leko]

I don't know if this adds anything but my tangs won't eat red nori. I don't know what color you're using. Also, I zip tied one lettuce clip to a small rock so they can eat on the bottom and not on the glass. This appeals to more shy feeders like my Majestic angel and Coral Beauty.

My tangs also love NLS pellets like candy and Hakari seaweed extreme.

Forgot to add. I just use long salad tongs to get the rock/clip - hardly get my hand wet.

Just my 2 cents