tang very skinny, yellow tail damsels

[bungles]

My Tang still seems to be very skinny hes eating like crazy but doesnt seem to put on any weight for about 2 months now. Any Ideas.
ALso my Yellow tail damels seem to be digging in my gravel picking up rocks and moving them making a tunnel under some shells i have is this normal for them?

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by bungles
http:///forum/post/3258354
My Tang still seems to be very skinny hes eating like crazy but doesnt seem to put on any weight for about 2 months now. Any Ideas.
ALso my Yellow tail damels seem to be digging in my gravel picking up rocks and moving them making a tunnel under some shells i have is this normal for them?

What kind of tang? What are you feeding it?

 

[bungles]

yellow tang. mysis shrimp,RDF, Red Seaweed with garlic, blood worms

 

[beaslbob]

I betcha the tang would fatten up quickly if it could graze on live macro algae (chaetomorphia, caulerpas) all the time.
my .02

 

[mrdc]

Red seaweed ... is that algae strips? How often are you using them?

 

[florida joe]

post a pic

 

[spanko]

Damsels may be getting ready to procreate!

 

[meowzer]

Blood worms????? I'd throw them out, unless you have FW fish

 

[btldreef]

IMHO, blood worms are garbage.
How much and how often do you feed?
Are you using regular Mysis shrimp or PE Mysis?
What does your live rock look like? Clean?
How old is the tank?
How long have you had the tang?
Can you post a picture of the tang and tank?

 

[rcreations]

I suggest feeding it some healthy food like Emerald Diet Frozen (which is actually made for tangs and other algae loving fish) and Rod's Food. you can throw in some NLS pellets too.

 

[florida joe]

Your fish could also have internal parasites

 

[speg]

cyanide

 

[btldreef]

Originally Posted by florida joe
http:///forum/post/3258538
Your fish could also have internal parasites
This is my thought too, but w/o more info and a pic, its so hard to say.

 

[bungles]

ok getting pics up tomrw sorry was busy past cople days.