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acasden

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Just purchased a beautiful naso tang that they had in a reef for a few weeks and was eating well. They managed to get him out and since in my reef not eating well- about 4 days now. Any thoughts on how to stimulate eating? When I feed it seems interested and then does not each much. I thought this was gret that it came from a reef tank but still concerned.
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ChrisRD

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IME it's not unusual for a new fish to take a while to settle into a good feeding routine.

Tangs will eat meaty foods, but their diet should consist primarily of seaweeds and algaes. I feed my tangs a lot of spirulina flake daily (I especially like OSI, but others are good too). I also feed Nori on a clip several times a week.

HTH
 
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Not normally a troublesome species in this regard...give him a few days.
 
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LBAOP feeds those tangs a lot of romaine on a clip. Give him time and offer the fresh to see if that stimulates him.
 
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I have a blonde that took a week to eat nori. but thats all she will eat
 

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I have a Naso for about 2 months now and it took awhile for her to start eating regularly. Don't get discouraged yet. Now she'll go after almost any food I put in there. If you have a refugium with some macro algaes, try putting some of that in there. Mine loves the stuff.
 
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I should point out that while romaine lettuce is easily obtainable and cheap, and certainly suitable as a food source now and then like Marina indicated, it is not nearly as nutrient dense as macro algae. The nori should be the staple, with the lettuce offered here and there to fill the gaps.
 
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I'm just relaying what the staff aquarists at the Long Beach Aquarium use. When I was there the tangs certainly looked pretty darn good to me. :D
 
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I'll bet you can use it all day for years and it would be fine. I just like to er in favor of the fish. For more a more demanding species it might be more critical.
That algae though, there's frankly no more nutritious thing on the planet, for people too. :)

I don't eat it. :P
 
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And you know this because you're an expert in nutrition, right? :roll: What else are you an expert on, Jim? Maybe you should march right down to each and ever aquarium that uses this food as a staple for many of their tropical herbivores and let them know all about it! :lol:
 
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seamaiden":1rnougwg said:
And you know this because you're an expert in nutrition, right? :roll: What else are you an expert on, Jim? Maybe you should march right down to each and ever aquarium that uses this food as a staple for many of their tropical herbivores and let them know all about it! :lol:


Yes, because knowing a bit about nutrition WOULD make me an expert wouldn't it Marina? Knowing about algae means I MUST be pretending to be a nutritional guru. No dear Marina, I know this just like I know anything about nutrition or fish husbandry, A -because I've bothered to look into it and B, I've been doing this for a little while. :wink:

You are familiar with the idea of looking into something and educating yourself on it yes?

Marine macro-algae is extraordinarily nutrient dense - period. Do a search and let me know what you find. Oh, and then there's the fact that it actually grows in the marine environment and lettuce doesn't :D

Aquariums use lettuce because it's convenient, it doesn't break apart as readily and found the water like dried macro can, and they have a budget to consider - or they don't know any better. Furthermore, we know all aquariums always do everything right don't we?

Not like you to make such a post - hows it workin for ya? :lol:
 
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Anonymous

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Yet this sort of post is becoming your modus operandi, isn't it Jim? I really don't know what your problem is lately.
 
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I really don't know where your post here came from.

I said nothing outside the realm of what one can glean from a bit of research and a modicum of common sense.

Edit: Furthermore if my comments are from uncommon knowledge that I've obtained through experience and research of my own, so what? I've been doing this long enough to offer plenty of that quite frankly.
 

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