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andy
06-28-2006, 09:57 AM
This morning was my tank's once-a-week all-you-can-eat Mysis buffet. Each head on my Torch and Hammer gets a squirt, and Scooter the Blenny clears up the left-overs. YellowFred, the Yellow Tang (one kid wanted to name him 'Yellow' and the other 'Fred' so....) hid in the rock like he usually does when anything even remotely scary is happening within 25 feet of the tank (scary)

As soon as the corals seemed finished, I turned the circulation back on and a few remaining leftovers were swirled up into the water column -- no problem, a weekly treat for the Hermits. Once Fred got a glimps of the Mysis, he was out of the rockwork in a hot second... chowing down on the smaller bits of shrimp. He couldn't manage the larger/whole ones, but anything smaller than half was scarfed.

I was really surprised. I thought that Yellow Tangs were herbivores. Do they normally like a protein snack, or is Fred a heretic? Maybe it is time to toss some Nori into the tank? He's been cleaning the GHA off the live rock for the past couple of days and while it is getting kind'a sparse, there's still a meal or two there for him. Maybe he's just a vegetarian when there are other vegetarians there watching (laugh)

reefgeek84
06-28-2006, 10:33 AM
No they feed on algae as grazing but they will eat meaty treats, tangs in general are pigs.

Ahbrit
06-28-2006, 12:34 PM
i fed my tang daily on mysis
i fed my tang daily on nori
i fed my tang daily on cyclopeze
i fed my tank daily on defrosted frozen shrimp

if you follow my feeding regime, get yourself a large skimmer

My Tang was a Sailfin. It refused to eat algae of the rocks....i guess it tasted bad

Lowman
06-29-2006, 09:01 AM
Tangs eat most anything, even poop

ESBlofeld
06-29-2006, 11:46 AM
We got one of the tiny Blue Tangs from Cichlids and Salt a few months ago and I just noticed it chasing our big female Pink Skunk Clown out of the way to pick some mysis out of our BTA, seems a bad way to get a snack, that Skunk could beat the heck out of her.

nu2reef-n
06-29-2006, 06:51 PM
My sailfin tang will eat just about anything,including poop. My pacific blue tang is the same way. The last few days big blue has been hovering around the clownfishes GBTA trying to eat their eggs. He is a glutton.

Theron
06-29-2006, 07:23 PM
Ya, I named my Sailfin "Mikey". From a popular 70s comercial.

Gill
03-19-2010, 09:34 PM
Make sure your tang gets lots of spirulina. I had one die on me from poor diet, wont make that mistake again.

andy
03-19-2010, 09:42 PM
Yeah, Fred's still doing fine 4 years later (laugh)

pledosophy
03-19-2010, 10:42 PM
IMHO if you name a fish Yellow you can't complain when they turn out to be a coward.

gradth
03-20-2010, 08:15 AM
I have a sailfin, kole and a hippo and they all eat anything I feed them. They all love there weekly mysis and brine dinner.

Beckie
03-20-2010, 09:04 PM
Hey I name all my fish, thats the only way hubby knows which one I'm talking about!

Beckie

undrtkr_00
03-22-2010, 01:04 PM
Hey I name all my fish, thats the only way hubby knows which one I'm talking about!

Beckie

Yeah, I name them, too. But, I name them all the same thing, so the wife still doesn't know which one I'm talking about. DOH!

andy
03-22-2010, 01:07 PM
"Oh that? That's just Bob... I've had Bob for months... no, he's not new and expensive. Not good old Bob."

Emerald525
03-22-2010, 01:08 PM
We name most of our fish too but they still don't come when we call them!

undrtkr_00
03-24-2010, 06:13 PM
Well, they're no worse than cats in that regard. DOH!