Why do naso tangs always die.

[Pninja]

Just wondering why all the naso tangs that I buy always die whever it be blonde or normal all my other fish make it water parameters are fine the naso tangs sometimes eat, some never do am I just wasting my time, are they hard to acclamate or maybe I just suck at keeping them

 

[Jonathan G]

How long do they usually last for you?


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[Mrfresh]

I have had the same issues I love nasos some of my fab fish but have never been able to keep one more then a week...

 

[bct15]

What size tank? Naso tangs need huge tanks.


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[Reefing Madness]

Gotta feed em lots of Algae Sheets or Romaine Lettuce or Nori Sheets, and Mysis Shrimp and such. No flake food for them. I feed my Tangs everyday.

 

[eliramos]

could possibly be where you're getting them from? maybe you could ask your lfs how they are caught?

 

[Pninja]

700 litres

 

[Pninja]

I've tried shops all over Australia

 

[FishLipz]

What size fish are you getting? The really small ones seem to have a hard time adjusting to tank life in my experience.

 

[KoleTang]

Do they show any signs of sickness?

 

[scott9119]

My blonde nasso is going on twelve years old now. He has been through 5 tank moves.


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[Zero Nitrates]

Tangs seem like they get stressed out easy. Is it better to vary their diet or just feed them algae wafers?

 

[FishLipz]

I find that mine do better with a varied diet. Mine eat pellets, flake, nori, mysis, Rod's food. They are all fat and healthy.

 

[Jonathan G]

I've only ever had one. About 3.5 inches, had him for 3 months. Fed nori and home grown ulva every other day and he ate well. He was swimming around fine before lights out and had eaten, the next morning I come down and he dead and wedged in my rocks being eaten by my cuc. No symptoms that I saw and the other fish in the tank were and still are fine (this happened about a week ago). Checked a parameters and everything is good. No idea what happened.

 

[Pninja]

I was thinking that as all bar one were small

 

[Pninja]

Same here they eat fine look fine in fact one I had was in the tank for 3 months had to go away for one night for work came back and he was dead

 

[pickupman66]

I have had my Naso 3 years. I got her from another reefer for $50. she is about 7-8" long and a wonderful fish. she eats anything I put in the tank. Most ly her diet is Nori and Flakes. I did go a period where I didnt feed her any nori for like a month or two. she never missed a lick, but at the end, did get a bit skinny, now on a daily nori diet, she is SUPER FAT and happy along with my other tangs. she is kept in my 180 reef with a Hippo, Powder Brown and atlantic blue. She has been hand fed since I got her. her diet currently consists of everything in the freezer ; squid, mysis, Rods food, Rotifers, Cyclopeze, Bloodworms and jsut about anything else that hits the water. she does love her flake food too. I ONLY feed OCEAN NUTRITION formula 2 flakes. these seem to to the best job of keeping the color in all my fish when i dont want to deal with the frozen. the only reason i am feeing as much frozen these days as I do is because I have a CBB that I want to keep fed. Funny, ive had him close to a month and he is still very plump, but ive never seen him eat.

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[Pninja]

I guess it maybe the size I'm getting of the fish shop or I just suck at keeping Nasos as they eat nori pellets mysis marine diet etc i also noticed if they get slightly harrssed they go down hill real fast

 

[Pninja]

Also to let everyone know I'm being keeping marines for 11 years and still have a blue tang and clown from the start just suck at keeping naso tangs

 

[angelsandtangs]

No luck here either on naso's had many over the years never had problems with them eating had all sizes, they just drop dead all of the sudden longest I kept one was 15 months.. I dont try anymore