Clip-less food for tangs?

[dismayed]

Other than nori on a clip, what are some other ways to get seaweed-type foods in your tank for your tangs? Are there any frozen seaweed foods? What about macro algae plants, do any of them have similar nutrients?

Trying to think of ways to supplement. An approach involving auto feeders or low maintenance like tossing a plant in would be ideal.

 

[dsfireman]

Seaweed Delight is one frozen food that my tangs seemed to like.

 

[DustyReefer]

There are seaweed pellets and flakes that you can give your fish. Pellets would probably be your best bet for the auto feeder idea.

 

[nikon187]

new era marine grazer.. comes with its own suction cup in the container

 

[wmilas]

I second New Era Marine Grazer. My tangs go insane for it just like nori. Unlike Nori it takes them 20 minutes or so to work an entire disc down. They can decimate a sheet of nori in under a minute.

 

[HumbleFish]

Pick up some of this, if you can find it.

 

[wm jim]

Magnet

Magnet

I just put the nori sheets under a spare glass cleaning magnet and found it cheaper to buy the dried wraps of sea weed at Kroger. Have 19 tangs and have been feeding the Kroger wraps for several years and they love it.

 

[MrTuskfish]

Turnip greens, softened in the freezer, secured to a piece of rock with a rubberband. Old fashioned, I know. But it doesn't fall apart, is very nutritious, and fish love it. Before the "its not from saltwater" comments start: fresh produce was (and still is) used for years before the nori products were on the scene. My tangs love cucumber and broccoli. Probably the most common ingredient in SW herbivore foods is spirulina, and most comes from FW . PE mysis, possibly the most popular frozen food comes from FW as well. Spirulina pellets are great too. As long as its all eaten, I don't think you can overfeed greens to herbivores, there just isn't the calories or nutrition that carnivore foods have; which would explain why tangs spend all day eating on the reef.

 

[nikon187]

The New Era algae pellets also are quite good with a protien content of almost 40%, my fish love everything from New Era