Training an African Yellow Belly Hippo and Squaretail Bristletooth Tang on Nori/Seaweed!

We've got more fish in the new Red Sea Reefer G2. I've now got some real movement in the tank!! Come check out the new tangs I've added, how I acclimated them to the tank, and my strategy for training tangs to eat nori/seaweed from a clip!

[CO.Reefing]

Nice man. I am wanting to get a blue hippo as well. I want to get a purple at the same time but I can't find some that are close in size.

[davelenjan]

i got the same fish in the same tank lol, hippo and bristle tooth, bristle tooth is around 2yrs in my old tank, the hippo is the newest one baby size. the blue powder still in my old tank lol

[atkinsnatureaquariums]

I really want a surgeon fish, but my tank is only 2 feet so no tangs for me, do you think adding them so early might cause problems when introducing new fish later on? I've always read they can be aggressive and also sensitive to ich.

Great video, fish look amazing

[dereks]

Where’d you get the fish? I usually drive up to Rusty’s in Bountiful.

[MrJSpicoli]

You put the nori in a clip and they start eating it. Training complete. They need incentive to eat nori like I need incentive to eat chocolate.

[woodguyty]

The ich will come /: or velvet… especially on the blue hippo tang. Please everyone do not buy tangs unless your going to QT. I work at a fish store. We maintain 1.0 ppm copper to make it appear there’s no ich but weeks after you get them home the ich/velvet will show up 90% of the time on tangs

[TwoScottishReefers]

You don't actually need to feed tangs nori at all. I have never fed it, I just use Hikari seaweed extreme pellets and Vitalis Algae pellets. As long as they get some Algae in their diets they will be fine.