New Kole Tang help

I picked up a 2.5-3 inch kole tang almost a week ago. He has been doing well, and seems to be acclimated to his new home. He is active and eats very well.
a day ago, he now has some that looks like it stick out of his bottom lip. He seems fine and is still eating, but there is definately something thin and pointy sticking out his bottom lip. Has anyone else ever heard of anything like this?

Another thing is that over the last day he has been eating the sand/gravel substrate and then spitting it out.

My final question is feeding him dried algae sheets. He loves them, but just seems to slurp the up and then and then back up an lets them slide out of his mouth. He never seems to bite of much. is this normal? Also, do you notice that when you feed the dried algae sheets you seem to get more algea in your tank? My film algae definately seems to get worse when the algae sheets are in there.

 

Seems to be a rebelious Tang. sneaking out and getting his lip peirced and all. JK, as for that I have no idea I'm sure others on here can help you out with that or look it up. As for the algae, I got an orange shoulder tang about a week ago and he is messy with the algae too. I'm sure he is eating bits of it. Mine has been eating small peices but then sometimes he'll get a big peice off slurp it around in his mouth and gets all the green stuff off and spits out the clear part and it floats around the tank til it goes thru the overflow or settles on the ground but thats what we have a clean up crew for right. Other than the lip thing he sounds to be doing pretty well. You sound like me. I worry a lot about him and tend to overthink just about everything.
Good luck

 

Also, a picture of the lip issue would help in identifying it.

 

I also have one, what a great fish. I even hand feed him/her. I also freaked out with their mouth thing. It looks weird, but its normal. Unless you can take a pic of it, it sounds normal to me.


Luna

 

Well, these are bristle tooth tangs, so it sounds normal really. I have a kole tang now, and mine is doing well.

They do like to eat the algae off of sand/ gravel. That is a good thing.

If it stops eating, or its mouth is actually damaged, you will know very quickly. Bristletooth tangs with damaged mouths are doomed to die.

Post a pic, but I bet it is normal.