I love my powder blue tang!!

He is doing very well, has established his order in the tank, he went into his cave and the foxface chased him in and next thing you know the foxface comes running out with his spikes up and the powder blue has his fin up chasing him away. Next thing you know the dwarf angel wants to get in on it and bully the powder and the foxface runs between them and chases the dwarf away hes like the peacekeeper in the tank.

 

Oh and I will post pics and the article on FLLR tonight when I get home, I just have to interview the president of FLLR on a few things.

 

My tank is a year old btw.

 

Good luck. I had one in my 135g awesome fish. Just like yours grazed algae, ate mysis and had a nori clip at all times. Really active and I felt even my tank was to small. Sucker just died after about 4mo my tank is over a year old and very stable.....so who knows?

 

One of my favorite fish. Try to avoid feeding it too many meaty foods though. It's an herbivore and needs a lot of algae in its diet.

 

I really like the powder blues... My LFS keeps getting them, and they're really nice ones too, that look alert, fat and happy... I am just so afraid that they will not last long, as many people have reported them just up dieing suddenly... I hope yours makes it and lives well! Keep us posted.

+1 on feeding it algae... Consider algae sources for all three of your fish, in fact, foxface, dwarf angels and tangs all consume algae as a large part of their diet on the reef!

maybe consider growing some gracileria in a refugium, even...

 

Beautiful fish!! I have one as well and they are def one of my favorites!

 

Ok, so heres the plan and I have some questions. When you guys say broccoli you mean the stuff we eat right? Dumb question I know lol. Anyways I plan on buying some gracileria for my fuge but I am wondering how fast it grows if I were to have a low level T5 on it all day and night. As well as feeding the powderblue small meals all day long is reccomended rather than 2 big meals I have heard, is that right? And adding vitamin c to the food can help its immunity right. And about the broccoli thing, after it is cooked how do I feed the guy, just throw a stalk in or do I cut off the head of the brocolli and feed it like pellets? I was looking into getting some gracileria from reefcleaners but I am wondering how much shipping is.

 

I grew gracileria in my fuge for a while... it doesn't grow super fast, but not too slow either... guess you'd want it to grow slightly faster than the fish will consume it so as not to run out... A CFL bulb with a good reflector will be all you'd need... T5's are too expensive for a fuge, IMO, but with the correct spectrum bulb may work well...

 

Im a dummy when it comes to lights CFL? common flourescent?