Zoo Eating Tangs

MUCHO REEF · #1 11/20/2005, 01:22 PM

Just wanted to piggyback Biotech's thread on his Sailfin Tang that ate his zoos.

Lets create a list of Tang which have been known or seen eating zoos. My Blue Hippo & Purple Tangs were fed regularly and they still ate some of my rare zoos.

1. Sailfin Tang
2. Purple Tang
3. Hippo Tang

Mooch

alexinfla · #2 11/20/2005, 04:24 PM

Not my personal fish, but a customers Sohal has been caught red handed a few times eating zoanthids.

*I personally think any tangs are about like dwarf angels, hit or miss.

DEEC77 · #3 11/20/2005, 05:19 PM

My Powder blue hasn't nipped at any zoos yet but has nipped at my clove polyps many times

Dee

crew33 · #4 11/21/2005, 03:51 AM

I can't say I've seen my Red Sea Sailfin tang eat any zoas as of yet. He does pick bits of algea between the polyps etc, but not the zoas.

Reefer Wannabe · #5 11/21/2005, 01:53 PM

I had a yellow tang that I caught eating zoanthid polyps...HOWEVER...I figured out that the polyps he was eating were dead or dying. He leaves healthy ones alone (at least I've never caught him eating healthy ones). So, if you think your tang is eating your polyps, check to see if there is another cause to your polyps dying.

mfinn · #6 11/21/2005, 07:45 PM

A pair of Hippo Tangs were the ones in my tank that did the most damage.
A Purple Tang started to nip at them but I was able to get it out before it ate alot.
I did see the Hippos actually tear at and eat the zoanthid colonies. Once they decided that a colony was ok to eat, they consumed the whole colony untill it was gone. Even after moving it.

slave-of-rock · #7 11/21/2005, 10:32 PM

I have a zoanthid reef with a Yellow and Bristle tooth tang in it. Neither of them have touched my zoas. Maby I just got lucky? Or maby they eat dead/dying zoanthids, which I seem to have none of. Just my 2 cents.

man1410 · #8 11/21/2005, 10:55 PM

Any experience with Chevron Tang? Thinking of getting one....

Sassy Amish · #9 11/22/2005, 10:45 AM

i think you wanted to say tang eating zoo

nvm: im dumb

klondar · #10 11/22/2005, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Reefer Wannabe
I had a yellow tang that I caught eating zoanthid polyps...HOWEVER...I figured out that the polyps he was eating were dead or dying. He leaves healthy ones alone (at least I've never caught him eating healthy ones). So, if you think your tang is eating your polyps, check to see if there is another cause to your polyps dying.

I too have a Yellow that ate a colony of sick/dying zoa's. He was picking them off like candy.

-Glen