NASO TANG FEEDING = HELP =

[RICKY81]

i just recently bought myself a NASO TANG one week ago and two weeks ago a CORAL BEAUTY ANGEL at local PETCO store. Initially i suppose it's like all fish, you first introduce them to your tank for the first 2-3 days they are shy then they start coming out. Well luckily both of my fish are over this stage. The only problem is that the NASO TANG won't eat anything i feed them. The CORAL BEAUTY ANGEL is eating fine. I have tried Mysis shrimp, NORI, NORI flakes, Pellets, regular flakes, with Garlic drops about 10 minutes prior to feeding time and the NASO TANG will just nibble on the food and spit it back out, or will just swim pass it but will ignore the food.

I have other tangs 3 yellow tangs, 1 scopas tangs, among other damsels and clown fish they all feed off this food and doesn't seem that the tangs or other fish are being aggressive toward the NASO TANG either on feeding time or just regularly.

My tank is a 75gal i have plenty of LR about 110lbs

The NASO TANG is about 3 in. long and looks pretty healthy no signs of ICK, or skin or fin disease.. JUST THAT IT WON'T EAT ANYTHING WHEN IDOES ANYBODY KNOW FEED IT.:at_wits_end:..... WHAT ELSE I CAN FEED THIS FISH?

where i live we only have a PETCO for saltwater supplies so i am pretty limited to what i can buy. i have seen blood worms would this work.. i guess since time is an issue i am probably better off making something. like buying something at H-E-B or Wal-Mart seafood section....

ANY IDEAS OR COMMENTS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED AND THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND TIME....RICKY81

[Texreefer]

if you find something that works please share with us, I went through almost $300 in food trying to get a Naso to eat.. it never did

[Gseclipse02]

my tang died i think due to the damsels being hogs and never letting him eat ....

[Gilbert]

regular brine shrimp worked for me

[coraline79]

My Naso would eat anything-specifically Formula 2 flake. I could feed him from my hand, poor guy just died one day, I can't figure out why. He was my clowns best friend. they would just swim around everywhere together.

[semperfimarine1]

i recently just lost my naso tang had him/her for almost 2 years...that was my favorite fish..whole reason why i kept my tank up and running and not downgrade was because of it..for some reason it just stopped eating and started losing weight. idk what it was. that thing would eat and eat anything and everything i would put in the water..loved that fish so much lol

sucks now my tank is so empty without seeing it swim back and forth...

[SoLiD]

Bummer! I'm sorry. :cry_smile:. I love Blonde Naso Tangs.

[fishn]

is it grazing on your live rock?

[coraline79]

I think tangs only eat veggies for the most part.

[mikedelgado]

they like BROWN macro alge not green so much.I think marine depot has it

[RICKY81]

well i haven't really seen it (NASO TANG) grazing at my live rock, but i have seen him grazing at the back glass which has, bits of green algae and coraline algae, that even my yellow tangs graze at. last night when i was feeding them i saw the NASO eat a few pieces of mysis shrimp, but he only ate about 2/5 pieces that he picked up, noticed that i think that he is more into just regular flakes... but today i will try some Cabbage, Spinach, and will be buying some raw squid, crab, octopus,and other goodies from H-E-B- to try. see what happens then.

[Jeff]

feed it live macro algea from a refugium, just put large clumps of it in the tank and let it graze.

[Texreefer]

feed it live macro algea from a refugium, just put large clumps of it in the tank and let it graze.
its worth a shot,, mine would eat a certain kind of brown algae in my fuge tank but once it was gone he died,, would not touch anything else in my fuge or my display

[Jeff]

he could also try live small feeder shrimp, it just might trigger a feeding response and if not all the other fish get fed well.

[RICKY81]

well i tried the cabbagge..they didn't bother with it, scalops..coral beauty angel fish loved it.... octopus..didn't bother and raw shrimp...didn't bother.. oh well tried feeding it several things and the only thing that he will nibble on is the nori flakes but spits them back out.... since i have a wet/dry filter and no refugium going to try a local (LAREDO) friend see if he has some macro algae... if not hopefully the fish is still around by the time that i get the order from marine depot for some brown algae nori........ oh well i guess i'll just keep trying.

[profntbtr]

try broccoli

[RICKY81]

well guys sad enough o say that my NASO TANG has expired...=(..yesterday in the am when i woke up he was just behind the rocks and lying there slowly dying until he went flatline.... i tried feeding it as many different things i could get my hands on but it just refused to eat.. well i shall hopefully try again later see if i have better luck with a NASO TANG. thanks to all of u who tried to help..

[Texreefer]

Sorry to hear.. since I had the same trouble, it seems that when they won't eat, there is not much that will help.

[Jeff]

that's why i will never get a tang again, i went through too many of them. but they are beautiful to watch.

[AquaDen]

Sally's Seaweed Salad has always worked for me. Just place it on a clip or rubber band it to a small rock and drop the rock onto your sand bed. My Yellow Tang and Hippo Tang really enjoy it as well. Its worth a try and cheap!

Petco carries it along with most other large pet store like that:
http://www.petco.com/Shop/petco_ProductList_N_282+30+5601.aspx

[Mr_Cool]

I have other tangs 3 yellow tangs, 1 scopas tangs, among other damsels and clown fish they all feed off this food and doesn't seem that the tangs or other fish are being aggressive toward the NASO TANG either on feeding time or just regularly.

My tank is a 75gal i have plenty of LR about 110lbs


5 tangs in the same 75 gallon tank? Normally if you don't see a fish getting picked on, there will at least be some signs of it. It doesn't sound like the Naso was being picked on. Maybe it was just too intimidated to eat?

I had a Naso in a 55 when I first got started in saltwater. It was in there with a Yellow and some damsels. It was eating flake food for about a week, and then it just died. Still don't know why.

Cool fish, though. I may try another one some day.

[R.Allard]

do you have a fuge and if so what do you have in it?? naso and several of the other tangs
are finicky at best although i did find a way to get them to eat and im not saying this will work with every tang but it might help.
when i had my 150rr set up i had a powder blue and some yellow and a blue or purple tang
everyone of them ate like the food was going extinct.sometimes theres something in the water that they are looking for and your not giving it to them. i have found that if you give them a little of the macro algae that you keep in the sump they tend to tear it up.
something like letting a child smell freshly baked cookies and then telling them they need to eat liver and onions first.there not gonna eat the liver and onions but if you give them alittle cookie first the liver dosent taste so bad.
also sit and watch him for an hour straight he may be eating and you dont know it.
tangs are grazers theyll pick a little here and a little there i once had a fish that never ate what i fed the tank. i had him for over two years. came home one day and he was belly up. its just how it works with fish. sometimes there is just no right answer.
anyway hope that helps.

[cheetum]

Sorry to hear about your tang . but for future reference I have a power brown & a hippo that eat like hogs I added a Naso that just never seemed to act right would hang out in one corner and really had no interest in eating the i read an article & adjusted my flow to move the top of my water more violently witch put more oxegen in my tank and now he's just fine and is a pig like the rest !! http://www.wetwebmedia.com/nasodisfaqs.htm

[jrodriguez]

for my tangs i feed them brine and krill they do pretty well with that and they also pick on any algae in the tanks

[RICKY81]

OK... OK... so as for my update my previous NASO TANG died. went by PETCO and they had 2 more naso tangs for sale and was watching them closely and bought the one that was more active and eating. So i take him to my tank put him in there. and it just REFUSES to eat. 2 days went by... nothing... so i did a 20% water change cause my nitrates were like sky high after the water change. i added Brown Algae Seaweed and Green Seaweed and he would swim by the Brown algae, and would nibble on it very discretely.... now the NASO TANG will eat off the clip brown algae, mysis shrimps, and Rods food... but what i have notice is that it will eat only small pieces of food. unlike my other tangs that eat big chunks like i have never fed them in days.... so yup 3 Yellow tangs, 1 scopas tangs, new Blue Hippo, and now a new Naso Tang.. all in a 75gal tank... i know i shouldn't keep that many in a 75 gal., but the only reason why i'm doing it is i have a 210gal rr tank on the garage that i am working on getting started and put those fish in...........WELL HOPEFULLY THIS NASO TANG WILL MAKE IT.

[cheetum]

Try putting more oxygen in the water Naso's are big tangs & need a lot of air,also It takes time they are kind of passive and need time to adjust!

[Grindhouse Tattoos]

tsk tsk. that many tangs in a 75 is just plain stupid. who cares if you have a 210, its not set up and even if it were, it would not be any where near ready to house that amount of livestock. stop replacing your dying tangs, stop buying livestock from petco, and focus your energy on maintaining water quality. oh, get rid of the damsels too, they are no good.