Finally 90 Gallon setup!! (Pics)
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i just got some seaweed for my powder brown and he wont touch it unless i tear it up and drop it in the tank, won't take it off the clip! that tang looks tiny! lol how much was it? in about 16hrs my tank was hair algae free and now he seems to like pellets mostly, when i feed mysis he doesn't eat any of it at all.. hopefully yours won't be such a picky eater!
Jim it took my tang forever to start eating from the clip. What you can do is wrap a piece around a small rock with a rubber band and place it where he can get at it...then gradually add the clip to the rock and then move it to the side......I hang my clip from my eggcrate with fishing line and both the tang and the foxface literally attack it.....the blenny has been seen attacking it too....all good. My pygmy angel on the other hand won't have anything to do with seaweed at all.....but gobbles up formula 2 so I am sure he is getting enough....
At first I though that I had made a mistake purchasing a skinny tang, but after 2 days he came out of the rocks and started nipping at mysis. It does not touch seaweed no matter how I put it. I tried on a clip, attached to a rock and even free floating but nothing. It only takes a little bit of mysis when I feed the clowns. The six line is eating mysis pretty well. I am although worried about the tang. Hope fully he will start eating seaweed. My tang is a very picky eater but tries to eat thats still a good sign. I got him for $25 I think its an ok deal. I even tried feeding it frozen formula 2 with garlic but he does not like it. Today I will buy formula 2 pellets and see if he will eat that. Any more suggestions?
My tang loves the Spectrum pellets, that's pretty cheap around here those guys sell for 40+ even the small ones, its weird that when i put my seaweed out on the clip it will be there for hours, when i turn the lights off to go to bed i wake up and its gone! im wondering whos eating it! i don't have any crabs/snails that im aware of lol.. its not a little sheet that i put out either!
Mine does not like any dried food (pelets, flakes). I have the same issue I put seaweed before I go to sleep and when I wake up its all gone. Wonder who eats it all. At first I though that its all sucked into the sump but the sump is clean as ever. With the seaweed I add a cube of frozen formula 2 with garlic that also vanishes. My six line is a very good eater by the time I am finished feeding it has a nice little tummy. All my fish are very picky only like frozen foods.
Thanks its good to know. I will keep an eye on the mandarin.
A little update.
None of the LFS have turbo snails for my cleanup crew. Today I got 2 emerald crabs, 1 cleaner shrimp, hammer coral and finally a small clam. Will post pics once I acclimate them.. The RO/DI system is awesome. Finally I don't have buy 10 gallon of water daily. The best investment for a reef tank. Thefilterguys.com are highly recommended.
A little update.
None of the LFS have turbo snails for my cleanup crew. Today I got 2 emerald crabs, 1 cleaner shrimp, hammer coral and finally a small clam. Will post pics once I acclimate them.. The RO/DI system is awesome. Finally I don't have buy 10 gallon of water daily. The best investment for a reef tank. Thefilterguys.com are highly recommended.
