Regal Tang

[smelly shelley]

Ive had the regal tang for about a week now.
It seems to be loosing colour on its scales it isnt white spot these are a green gray colour
it is feeding well and seems to be very happy.

 

[Lynden]

If it's feeding well it's probably not a concern. It is when fish cease feeding that it is time to be worried.

 

[jeasko]

shelly
what are you feeding the tang? there seems to be evideence that some food helps to keep the colour in fish, also a pic may be good if you could get one? also i was always led to belive that regals are blue yellow and black, so it may be that its a different type of tang ie pale blue?

 

[smelly shelley]

If it's feeding well it's probably not a concern. It is when fish cease feeding that it is time to be worried.

cheers let you know if it changes.

 

[Matthew5664]

Mine went through the same sort of thing very recently when I change my phosphate remover from one brand to another. I have found with these fish that meaty foods just plump them out and dull there colour. I now use a mix of all the flake I can find in one tub give it a shake and feed twice Dailey along with a half sheet of nori a day keeps the spots at bay and the colour up.

 

[smelly shelley]

Mine went through the same sort of thing very recently when I change my phosphate remover from one brand to another. I have found with these fish that meaty foods just plump them out and dull there colour. I now use a mix of all the flake I can find in one tub give it a shake and feed twice Dailey along with a half sheet of nori a day keeps the spots at bay and the colour up.

this sounds like the same problems im having i have been feeding them all on a frozen mixed food, and sea veggie-green seaweed, i throught this would be enough to satisfie-oopppssss, #### at spelling-there diet.

 

[Matthew5664]

Try veggie flakes, the Ocean Nutrition ones are good and the herbivore flakes by New Era. Mix them in equal amounts with 20% normal flake. Feed that twice, may be tree times Dailey. Then before bad a half sheet off nori. Any nori not eaten within the hour remove. I feed half a cube of frozen (my own mix) a day but that’s only really for the clownfish (although the tangs do eat some).