Is It Natural?

[brick-brothers]

So last night I feed my tangs seaweed n a clip. I notice my flame wraases and another wrasse ( forgot the name ) was eating from the clip too. Do wraase normally eat seaweed?

 

[D1J8Z]

yes its normal.

 

[brick-brothers]

ok cool, always thought they only go for flakes, frozen food

 

[SIReefer]

I have a bluehead wrasse that tears up the seaweed (I think just for the fun of it) but I doubt he really eats much. My clown fairy & blueside dont go near it.

 

[LaurieC]

I've noticed my mystery wrasse, chromis, and kauldren's cardinals all eatting the seaweed! I think the clowns join in so as not be left out, but they might be just tearing it off. They all go nuts the minute I put the clip of seaweed in the tank. Very funny

 

[brick-brothers]

i think mine are doing the samething. ( They wasting my seaweed lol )

 

[LaurieC]

lol! I do tend to find some on my powerheads after the frenzy. It's really funny, I put the clip in and all the fish start circling around it, getting closer and closer until one--ushually one of the cardinals--breaks the ice. If I come near the tank, they disperse. I'm actually wondering if the tang even has a chance to get any. I a half cube of frozen formula 2 which is veggie to evening feeding everyother day, so I know the tang is getting seaweed, but not sure who is actually eatting the majority of it off the clip.

 

[beerfish]

My clown used to race over to the clip, tear the algae to shreds and spit it out before anyone else could get any. I finally started rubber banding it to a piece of rubble and dropping it towards the tang where the clown couldn't see it from her anemone.

 

[Mikei70]

ok cool, always thought they only go for flakes, frozen food

Wait-- they eat flake and frozen food, but you're worried about seaweed being "natural"?

:scratchch

 

[KathyC]

Wait-- they eat flake and frozen food, but you're worried about seaweed being "natural"?

:scratchch

lol, I had exactly the same thought

 

[brick-brothers]

lol, i never seen them eat seaweed. So i'm guessing them eating flake food is weird? lol

 

[KathyC]

Just that it isn't something you'd find natually in the ocean
...kinda like garlic, but fish love that too!

 

[prattreef]

The only fish mentioned in this entire thread that surprises me with an interest in algae is the Kauderni cardinals. They rarely show interest in any prepared foods beyond frozen IME