Nutrition

What goes into the Yellow Tangs tummy?

The Yellow Tang is mostly herbivorous, meaning it eats autotrophic organisms, but it also eats heterotrophs. It prefers to eat algae or other plant-based foods; however, it does eat small invertebrates like brine shrimp. The Yellow Tang uses its long snout to reach into small crevices to get hidden algae as well as using it to pull seaweed and grasses apart. (See Adaptations)

Yellow Tangs have a complete digestive tract. Nutrition and oxygen are pumped through a one circuit circulatory system, by a two chambered heart.