feeding a purple tang?

[ninjamini]

What should one feed a purple tang? Is pellet food enough. I usually feed new life spectrum marine fish formula. O'yea and the occasional piece of a seeweed sheet.

 

[dogstar]

I feed mine their Thera+A formula along with a variety of other foods like mainly dry seaweed sheets called nori and some meaty foods like mysis shrimp and PrimeReef....I have had mine 5 years so far on this diet.....

 

[greg j]

mine eats mostly algae, but gets mysis or brine shrimp every other day or so. I used the mysis and brine shrimp to train it to eat from my hand.

 

[unleashed]

im with dogstar on the thera +A pellets by spectrum I have compared the ingredients of the spectrum pellets and have found the thera+A to be more ballenced and better quality ingredience.but i also use emerald entrese and formula2 for herbivores.I have a very mixed variety of fish in most of my tanks so the food list is long and my fish eat just about anything i toss in the tank,,ps brine shrimp has as much nutrition to fish as popcorn has to humans

 

[nofish4u!!]

Please tell me you've upgraded since you've had the 6 and the 12 gallon...?

 

[ninjamini]

Originally Posted by nofish4U!!
Please tell me you've upgraded since you've had the 6 and the 12 gallon...?
Upgraded, no why. The tang is perfectly happy in the 6 gallon eclipse.
LOL Yea I bought a 55 gal set up from someone local:
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=218422
Thats where I got the tang. While I never would have bought this fish myself but now I don't think I would want to be with out him. Thats one great fish.
My was looking for live rock and this tank set up came available for a great price. I am getting a 70 gallon to replace this temp 55 gal.