NASO TANG FEEDING = HELP =

[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.