Do Tangs eat macro Algae such as.....?

magyk74 · 02/21/2006, 03:27 PM

Do Tangs eat macro algae such as chematorphora? I was reading somewhere that they do.

Or does anyone feed other types of macro's to their tangs?

By the way when the fish nibble at the macro algae such as chematophora and the partial rippings and tears come off and swirl around the tank will they eventually grow or just die?

fishman805 · 02/21/2006, 03:34 PM

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Originally posted by magyk74
Do Tangs eat macro algae such as chematorphora? I was reading somewhere that they do.

Or does anyone feed other types of macro's to their tangs?

By the way when the fish nibble at the macro algae such as chematophora and the partial rippings and tears come off and swirl around the tank will they eventually grow or just die?

Well: Yes, Tangs eat macro algae... Not sure about the cheato but I would assume so ... I feed mine Nori... You can get it very cheap at Asian food stores.... Just get the dried or roasted type... It's sushi wrap.... Mine love it and have gotten very fat on it

You'll probably find that that's what most folks feed their tangs....

Bob

magyk74 · 02/21/2006, 04:58 PM

I've heard of reefers feeding nori to tangs but I would like to know what macro's that you grow in you refugium will they eat?

miracles38 · 02/21/2006, 05:46 PM

My purple tang eats chaeto, but my sailfin does not.

miracles38 · 02/21/2006, 05:46 PM

They love gracilliaria

xtrstangx · 02/21/2006, 06:27 PM

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Originally posted by miracles38
They love gracilliaria

Yep!

If they bite off a piece of chaeto and a bit floats around the tank.. it can grow if there is enough light/nutrients in the water.

TWallace · 02/22/2006, 12:42 AM

I've read they love red graciliara. Plus it looks real nice, though I don't think it anchors into stuff like caulerpa does, so it's probably not a good idea to grow it in your display tank. I have mine growing in the refugium, no fish yet as it's a new tank.

downlimit · 02/22/2006, 01:06 AM

not trying to be a smart a$$, but do bears poop in the woods. Yes tangs will eat just about any type of macro algae, they may prefer a particular type over another but if the only thing being feed is cheato, they will eat it.

21Reefman · 02/22/2006, 01:12 AM

mine like red caulerpa and my purple eats cheato

fishman805 · 02/22/2006, 09:52 AM

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Originally posted by TWallace
I've read they love red graciliara. Plus it looks real nice, though I don't think it anchors into stuff like caulerpa does, so it's probably not a good idea to grow it in your display tank. I have mine growing in the refugium, no fish yet as it's a new tank.

Thanks for posting the picture of the graciliara..... I've got a few areas of LR carpeted in that stuff as well as a few patches of calerpa and the tangs keep it pretty trimmed down... I've watched them go to it from time to time... Especially my yellow tang......

Bob

Dan Thrash · 02/22/2006, 09:57 AM

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Just get the dried or roasted type...

i've read that you do not want to give them roasted nori because many of the nutrients the fish need are dipleted due to the cooking.

GMAX · 02/22/2006, 10:03 AM

Some Nori is soaked in tea. Avoid this stuff like the plague.

fishman805 · 02/22/2006, 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by Dan Thrash
i've read that you do not want to give them roasted nori because many of the nutrients the fish need are dipleted due to the cooking.

I've never heard or read that before.... I can tell you that nori is not the only food that my tangs are eating... I also feed brine,mysis,plankton and spectrum pellets..... I can also tell you that all of my tangs are very healthy,fat and active....

I'd be interested in reading anything you could post about the roasted nori versus dried nori...

Bob

pcragg · 02/22/2006, 02:22 PM

Mine love the small bubble caulerpa but won't touch the larger bubble variety. They won't touch the pipe cleaner algae either (which really sucks).

NicoleRM · 02/22/2006, 03:36 PM

My scopas sucks up chaeto strands like spaghetti.

1package · 02/22/2006, 03:51 PM

My Powder blue, hippo, Tomini and purple tang will munch the chaeto, as well as hair algae (except Tomini). They will NOT touch the caulerpa - thank God for the rabbit fish.

Every tang that I have ever had would eat Nori.

Samala · 02/22/2006, 10:24 PM

Ulva lactuca.. sea lettuce, is also a great tang/rabbitfish and algae feed.

>Sarah

HVF21221 · 02/23/2006, 06:06 AM

I don't understand people who grow macro in there refugium and then feed it to there tangs. I would think most people grow macro in a refugium to remove phosphates. They feed the macro to tangs and the phosphate goes right back in the tank. I understand if they were eating unwanted macro from the display tank.

NicoleRM · 02/23/2006, 10:11 AM

Well, tangs have to eat something. I guess you think its better to feed them algae thats processed and dried in sheets rather than the real thing for free that I'm already growing for export purposes? I don't think so.

Anemonebuff · 02/23/2006, 10:17 AM

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Originally posted by fishman805
I've never heard or read that before.... I can tell you that nori is not the only food that my tangs are eating... I also feed brine,mysis,plankton and spectrum pellets..... I can also tell you that all of my tangs are very healthy,fat and active....

I'd be interested in reading anything you could post about the roasted nori versus dried nori...

Bob

I would suspect that you would lose something when roasting the Nori. I use plain dried. Check the back of the package, it usually says exactly what it is under the ingredients section.

Some say nothing on the back or it is written in Japanese or Korean. I would avoid these because you do not know what is really in it.

Anemonebuff · 02/23/2006, 10:18 AM

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Originally posted by NicoleRM
Well, tangs have to eat something. I guess you think its better to feed them algae thats processed and dried in sheets rather than the real thing for free that I'm already growing for export purposes? I don't think so.

Agreed.

Fresh is best IMO.

chenk69 · 09/26/2014, 04:26 AM

Do you know any macro algae that can co-exists with purple and yellow tang? I like macro algae and do not want them to be eaten by my lovely tangs

Ligershark · 12/24/2014, 11:28 AM

i feed ulva, gracillaria, and red bush daily. they also eat dragon tongue.

hogfanreefer · 12/24/2014, 11:43 AM

My Ctenochaetus tangs do not eat any macro algae other than nori and not very aggressively at it. They constantly eat film algae on the glass and rocks though.

02/21/2006, 03:27 PM	#1
magyk74 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Long Island Posts: 471	Do Tangs eat macro Algae such as.....? Do Tangs eat macro algae such as chematorphora? I was reading somewhere that they do. Or does anyone feed other types of macro's to their tangs? By the way when the fish nibble at the macro algae such as chematophora and the partial rippings and tears come off and swirl around the tank will they eventually grow or just die?

02/21/2006, 05:46 PM	#4
miracles38 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 2,008	My purple tang eats chaeto, but my sailfin does not. __________________ Kim Current Tank Info: 180 reef

02/21/2006, 05:46 PM	#5
miracles38 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 2,008	They love gracilliaria __________________ Kim Current Tank Info: 180 reef

02/22/2006, 01:12 AM	#9
21Reefman Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chicago/NW IN Posts: 403	mine like red caulerpa and my purple eats cheato __________________ "The significant problems that we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein

02/22/2006, 02:22 PM	#14
pcragg Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Washington D.C. Posts: 60	Mine love the small bubble caulerpa but won't touch the larger bubble variety. They won't touch the pipe cleaner algae either (which really sucks). __________________ 140 Oceanic Reef 2 400W 20k Plusrite 2 110W Actinic VHO 250 Pounds LR Octopus EXT-PS200 No sump Current Tank Info: 140 Oceanic Reef

02/21/2006, 04:58 PM	#3
magyk74 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Long Island Posts: 471	I've heard of reefers feeding nori to tangs but I would like to know what macro's that you grow in you refugium will they eat?

02/22/2006, 12:42 AM	#7
TWallace Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,464	I've read they love red graciliara. Plus it looks real nice, though I don't think it anchors into stuff like caulerpa does, so it's probably not a good idea to grow it in your display tank. I have mine growing in the refugium, no fish yet as it's a new tank.

02/22/2006, 01:06 AM	#8
downlimit Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Surprise, AZ Posts: 162	not trying to be a smart a$$, but do bears poop in the woods. Yes tangs will eat just about any type of macro algae, they may prefer a particular type over another but if the only thing being feed is cheato, they will eat it.

02/22/2006, 10:03 AM	#12
GMAX Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: DFW Posts: 839	Some Nori is soaked in tea. Avoid this stuff like the plague.

02/22/2006, 03:36 PM	#15
NicoleRM Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Gainesville, FL Posts: 221	My scopas sucks up chaeto strands like spaghetti.

02/22/2006, 03:51 PM	#16
1package Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: WV Posts: 975	My Powder blue, hippo, Tomini and purple tang will munch the chaeto, as well as hair algae (except Tomini). They will NOT touch the caulerpa - thank God for the rabbit fish. Every tang that I have ever had would eat Nori.

02/22/2006, 10:24 PM	#17
Samala Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,930	Ulva lactuca.. sea lettuce, is also a great tang/rabbitfish and algae feed. >Sarah __________________ "Seaweed is cool, seaweed is fun, it makes its food from the rays of the sun!"

02/23/2006, 06:06 AM	#18
HVF21221 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Baltimore Posts: 279	I don't understand people who grow macro in there refugium and then feed it to there tangs. I would think most people grow macro in a refugium to remove phosphates. They feed the macro to tangs and the phosphate goes right back in the tank. I understand if they were eating unwanted macro from the display tank.

02/23/2006, 10:11 AM	#19
NicoleRM Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Gainesville, FL Posts: 221	Well, tangs have to eat something. I guess you think its better to feed them algae thats processed and dried in sheets rather than the real thing for free that I'm already growing for export purposes? I don't think so.

09/26/2014, 04:26 AM	#22
chenk69 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 20	Do you know any macro algae that can co-exists with purple and yellow tang? I like macro algae and do not want them to be eaten by my lovely tangs

12/24/2014, 11:28 AM	#23
Ligershark Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 205	i feed ulva, gracillaria, and red bush daily. they also eat dragon tongue.

12/24/2014, 11:43 AM	#24
hogfanreefer Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Conway, AR Posts: 2,117	My Ctenochaetus tangs do not eat any macro algae other than nori and not very aggressively at it. They constantly eat film algae on the glass and rocks though. __________________ DSA 155,Custom Trigger 42" sump/refugium, MP40 X2, MP 10 X 2, AI Hydra 52 X3, Apex controller, Tunze ATO Current Tank Info: DSA 155 gallon, mixed reef, SPS and wrasse dominant