tang and algae

[allan]

My hippo wouldn't eat from the clip either for a while... even while watching the other fish eat from it (yellow rim, naso, starry, cleaner wrass, and the cow fish). I lessened the feeding of other foods until I saw him nibbling from it hesitantly.

Now they all eat from it. I don't put it in as often as I should though. The cowfish goes in there and makes such a mess I'm worried the other fish aren't getting it all before it becomes lost in the rock.

[saabtech]

he did it! he did it!.
the powder brown started eating algae from a clip!

boy he is looking good. i am glad i didnt give up on him when i got so overwelmed with the QT and hyposalinity.

[cowboy572]

To get my Powder Blue to eat from a algae clip at first was to put drops or garlic and let it soak and dry on to the nori. Now he just eats up that nori, no garlic at all.

[msmith619]

None of my tangs (Naso, Blue hippo, yellow) will touch chaeto. I have had no success with clips either, they are scared of the clip and waving nori. They all LOVE Spirulina flakes. I also feed enriched frozen brine with spirulina. I have had these tangs for about a year with good growth and color. I have always felt lateral line disease in tangs is related to poor nutrition and these guys are fat, happy, growing, in full color and no signs of lateral line disease. Also, I put caulerpa prolifera from the fuge in the tank about once a month when decreasing the macro there and they eat that.