How to Fatten Up Tangs?

[jem]

jus wondering..

how do you guys fatten up your tangs?..

been trying to feed my regal hippo tang for abt 5 mnth now..

still no "pui pui" leh..

and special stuff u all add in?..

[AlfaRomeo]

What and how often are you feeding?

[jem]

feed a variety of food

-henry mix

-pellets soaked in garlic

-mysis shrimp soak in garlic

is it ok to use this diet?..or should i stick to only one diet?..i change their variet every alternate days..

[SoTongBall]

try put in red bamboo algae for the tangs to eat + your normal feeding. They will be busy eating whole day, bery soon become fat tang.

[AlfaRomeo]

Variety will be much better for the Tangs. Henry's food is simply amazing. How often r u feeding?

[jem]

every night..scrape of a whole chunk of food for them to eat..

[Gouldian]

Hi Bro,

The key is frequent small feeds.

If you are not always at home, you can get a auto-feeder to feed small portions of pellets.

At when you are home, you can continue with Henry's food.

But bear in mind that frequent feeding = increase waste production. Make sure your skimmer is able to cope.

[kueytoc]

be careful...pui pui = more wastes = high NO4 = high PO4 = ???

I rather feed discriminately once or twice a day at least...as long as the fish is eating, then no problem.

Cheers...

[Earth]

Dear Jem

I have a yellow, purple and brown tang, all puipui...

basically, I feed them with those red algae (look very much like grapes) once a month and I can tell u they really love it! pecking at it non-stop! even when the grapes are finished, they peck on the stem!

For the other fishes and on a normal day, i feed them with Kent Marine and Formula 1& 2 pellets twice a day. the greedy tangs chiong for the pellets too...

IMO, tangs are very greedy and i believe they are the easiest fish to be puipui...

[weileong]

Feed 12x day confirm after 1 months your BT will be super pui.

[AquaRa]

haha, i didnt know that tangs needed special diets to fatten up...

[jem]

thanks so much for all the advices!..

really treasure it!..

i guess i will try to grab the red bamboo algae..is that what they call it?

[giantbicycle]

i guess i will try to grab the red bamboo algae..is that what they call it?

yeap

[barnacle]

thanks so much for all the advices!..

really treasure it!..

i guess i will try to grab the red bamboo algae..is that what they call it?

but not those kinda red bamboo to hang clothes...

[Lester]

i pump my tnags wif henry special food

pui pui too ...

[XPeriment 626]

tangs are very greedy. grapes, red bamboo, nori, they will all eat. My tangs are all fat like pigs

[akahoshi]

Question is.. How do you make a skinny powder brown became pui pui when it is housed wif a super fat BT and PBT? Any food that enters the tank will go straight into the BT and PBT mouth! The powder brown not fast enough..

So how to do make the powder brown fat w/o taking out the BT and PBT?

Ps. - This is just a scenerio.. This is not happening in my tank.

[acidjazz]

My tangs daily diet:

Morning: Ocean Nutrition Formula 1 or 2 flake/pellet food.

At night: Mysis/brine shrimps. Seaweed. Cyclopreeze. More flake food.

[stabilo]

My tangs daily diet:

Morning: Ocean Nutrition Formula 1 or 2 flake/pellet food.

At night: Mysis/brine shrimps. Seaweed. Cyclopreeze. More flake food.

Bro, you feed ur tangs scary sia, whole tank filled with Mysis/Brine ur tangs all go 5 month BMT type

[Greywolf]

Bros,

I understand that we can buy vegetables to feed the tangs. What types would you recommend and how frequent and the methods of doing it. Thanks

[Sotong]

where to get henry's food? & hoe does the red bamboo algae looks like?

[Maverick77]

where to get henry's food? & hoe does the red bamboo algae looks like?

I'm also interested to find out how the red bamboo algae looks like, can someone pls post a pic to share?

How do I make my Convict tang eat? It's been 3 days and it's been very active but still don't feed on pellets and even sea weeds... Funny thing is that is ate when I bought it from the LFS...

[weileong]

Give it time, maybe still stress after the transport home and introduction to new enivroment.

[dleecool]

where to get henry's food? & hoe does the red bamboo algae looks like?

Go to ML and buy from Henry loh!!!

He is at Hong Leong near to Clementi!!!

[Maverick77]

Give it time, maybe still stress after the transport home and introduction to new enivroment.

One week liao still not feeding... Tried sea weed, vege, and pellots... No use... sian...