Help with Naso Tang

[cadamsreef]

I have a Naso Tang that is losing wieght. I have him in my 225 gal. reef tank he is about 12 inches. I try to feed him every day with spirulina wafers, brine with spirulina, and caulerpa or red gracillaria. He is a very picky eater but he does eat. The other fish eat most of his food. What can I do without over feeding the other fish? Please Help

[rz1a]

have you tried different types of nori sheets? how about feeding the tank some meaty foods to see if he gets involved in the frenzy?

when you say he does eat, what is he eating?

if it's used to eating from the glass walls, try putting clips there with small sheets of nori.. my yellow tang goes nuts over the purple ones by julian sprung.. if he's not used to that, maybe try attaching the nori to live rock rubble and placing it on a rock that it always visits

[DrMark]

How long have you had the fish? Did you aquire it from someone? If it is that size, it was eating for someone, maybe there is another problem?

[cadamsreef]

I have had him for 7 months now. Got him from the lfs. in corpus. Just getting skinny and skinner over time. Will not eat nori green, brown, red, or purple with garlic and without. I have tried live live mussles chop, live grass shrimp, live clams, and frozen squid wont touch it. Only thing he will eat is the stuff I mentioned earlier. Maybe he has worms? or just not getting enough.

[cadamsreef]

The other fish I have in the tank
Blue Tang 7 inches 2 years in tank
Purple Tang 4 inches 7 months
One spot fox 7 inches 2 and half years
Flame Angle 4 inches 1 and half years
yellow coris wrasses 2 years
six line 1 month
six green chormis 3 years
Black and Gold Chormis

[aquasport24]

Try to block him off with eggcrate from the rest of the fishes and feed him with different food. If he takes it then leave him there til he get fat and release it back with the rest. If that's not working then place him in a quarantee tank and fat him up . Hope that's work.

[RICKY81]

the same thing happen to one of my yellow tangs.. i had 3 of them together and they would eat like pigs suddenly one tang started to lose weight, and would eat very little until he no longer made it out from the rocks....i have a NASO tang and he likes to be hand fed.. you should try that...

[cadamsreef]

Thanks for the comments from everyone, think I'll try and get a 55 gal tank and drill it and hook it up to the main tank and stick him in there and try to fatten him up. Does any one have any red or brown gracillaria or uvla in the area of corpus, the LFS is out?