Rabbitfish foods

[DeadlyMuffin]

I have a beautiful Virgate Rabbitfish with an obnoxious tendancy to nip at soft corals (Xenia and Kenya Trees for sure). I'd love to keep the fish, but I need a way to keep it from nipping.

Right now I'm feeding mostly Formula 2 flakes two or three times a day. What else can I supplement with that will be more attractive to him than my corals? I'd love to have something I can stick in the tank that he can nibble on when he's hungry. I've heard of lettuce and nori, but my previous attempts feeding nori to a rabbitfish were unimpressive.

What foods work, or is the fish simply incompatible?

[psilentchild]

I feed this to mine.All my fish love it.I put about a hand full under my LR and let them graze.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?did=3&pid=1487&cid=284

[psilentchild]

bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?did=3&pid=1487&cid=284

[Amazon4]

I have a doliatus that eats *everything* including nori. But it took a long time to get him to even try nori. He eventually realized he liked it because it was in the fish goo he chowed.

Now I have to hold the nori by hand and let him eat his fill before I can put it in a clip. Ootherwise he rips the clip down getting too excited while eating it...

So far he leaves everything alone except pink zoas and blastos (go figure). But he's such a cool fish, I just don't bring home pick zoas and blastos :)

[psilentchild]

Lets try this again.
http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?did=3&pid=1487&cid=284

[Amazon4]

oh yeah....mine LOVES ogo. I bought some off of someone on RC last summer. That was ths first algae he ate off of the clip :)

[Kahuna Tuna]

Flakes are not going to hold a rabbitfish, they are very hearty eaters and need some meaty seafoods as well. Mine loves nori and I also feed NLS pellets, my seafood mash (table shrimp, scallops, and fish flesh in a food processor with zoe and vitamins), formula 1 & 2, and mysis shrimp.

[TheH]

Unfortunately, from what I've read once most fish start nipping at corals they won't stop even with increased feeding. I've always traded out nipping fish, never actually tried to "rehabilitate" them.

[mrwilson]

If I skip a day of feeding, my foxface will sometimes start munching on a big sarcophyton leather I have. It eats literally everything I throw in the tank: multiple kinds of flake, cyclopeeze, NLS pellets, PE Mysis, Hikari Mysis, nori, Rod's Food, etc. If I were you, I'd definitely add some meaty foods to the mix to see if that helps.

[DeadlyMuffin]

He does get some mysis. I'll look into Ogo algae, but not from that site. It's more than $50 after shipping, and I'm not going to pay more for algae that may or may not work than I did for the fish.

[Amazon4]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1539012

Here's a link to that I bought here on RC. Don't know if he still sells it - you could shoot him a PM. But it's a lot cheaper, and our guys love it. A tiny but goes a long way.