Sea lettuce and tangs

[wcroft987]

I have had a tomini tang and yellow mimic tang for awhile and have been feeding them dryed nori and even my cb angel eats it. I recently set up my fuge with sea lettuce and it’s growing great! I put some on my algae clip in the display and no one will even look at it.
I usually feed enough not I that it gets consumed in 24hrs and replace it every morning.
the sea lettuce has been in there, untouched for 3 days.
Any ideas?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have had a tomini tang and yellow mimic tang for awhile and have been feeding them dryed nori and even my cb angel eats it. I recently set up my fuge with sea lettuce and it’s growing great! I put some on my algae clip in the display and no one will even look at it.
I usually feed enough not I that it gets consumed in 24hrs and replace it every morning.
the sea lettuce has been in there, untouched for 3 days.
Any ideas?

Generally consumed by turtles and parrot fish. I don’t see tangs touching it

 

[Sean Clark]

I have the same experience. No one will touch it. Makes a nice salad though.

 

[wcroft987]

Really!!
I feel like everything I have read says:
“Great at absorbing nitrate and phosphate and you can feed it back to your tangs”
I feel like I have duped.

 

[Miami Reef]

I have the same experience. No one will touch it. Makes a nice salad though.
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Don’t tell me you eat that!! I remember a thread we had about this… oh dear.

 

[Ef4life]

Sea lettuce aka ulva? My yellow tang and convict loved it.

 

[Jeffcb]

I grow Grape Cauleprpa in my refugium. The tangs and wrasses tear it up.
I named my Naso tang Noodles because he sucks it down like a kid eating spaghetti.

 

[G Santana]

Really!!
I feel like everything I have read says:
“Great at absorbing nitrate and phosphate and you can feed it back to your tangs”
I feel like I have duped.

I too have read where some fish ate it, I actually considered trying it for the fuge and the re-use value.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I grow Grape Cauleprpa in my refugium. The tangs and wrasses tear it up.
I named my Naso tang Noodles because he sucks it down like a kid eating spaghetti.

Now youre talking Tang salad. They will tear this stuff up

 

[vetteguy53081]

Larger surgeon fish may eat this as well as emerald crabs, sea urchins and sea hares

 

[Doctorgori]

my Atlantic blue sometimes eats it, foxface will also, again occasionally My other tangs won’t touch it. Turbo snails will eat it

 

[AlgaeBarn]

Don’t tell me you eat that!! I remember a thread we had about this… oh dear.

Have you tried to pur the nori and sea lettuce on the clip together at once so they can maybe be tricked into trying it?

 

[moz71]

Side note I once put ulva in my sump refruge to absorb nitrate well big mistake took over my display instead. Fox face ate some but couldn’t keep up. Eventually covered everything!!

 

[i cant think]

Side note I once put ulva in my sump refruge to absorb nitrate well big mistake took over my display instead. Fox face ate some but couldn’t keep up. Eventually covered everything!!

this is interesting - Never heard of Sea Lettuce being invasive.

 

[moz71]

this is interesting - Never heard of Sea Lettuce being invasive.

That’s what I thought too! If you search it though you will see many problems. Not as much as other algae though.

 

[Lyss]

Side note I once put ulva in my sump refruge to absorb nitrate well big mistake took over my display instead. Fox face ate some but couldn’t keep up. Eventually covered everything!!

I have some that’s taken over my display rn. I was upset at first but I let it go — it keeps nutrients in check, keeps my rocks clean of other worse nuisance algae, and is super easy to pluck off the rocks went it gets too unruly.

 

[wcroft987]

Have you tried to pur the nori and sea lettuce on the clip together at once so they can maybe be tricked into trying it?

Tried this with no luck.

 

[wcroft987]

Have you tried to pur the nori and sea lettuce on the clip together at once so they can maybe be tricked into trying it?

May have to try again and make a nori sea lettuce burrito wrap.

 

[Murica]

Tried feeding my tangs sea lettuce and they gobbled it up ‍ guess it depends on the fish. My fox face and blennies too

 

[unchaotic]

Have you tried to pur the nori and sea lettuce on the clip together at once so they can maybe be tricked into trying it?

My dad did something similar to a dog. He’d toss it a few Cheetos and then slip in a baby carrot … dog spit out the carrot every time.