Feeding Tang

[kidkaos520]

So I am new to the owning a tang scene and bought the little fella some seaweed with a clip so he/she can graze. Well I dont sit there long enough to see if the fish actually eats all I know is when I come back hours later there is seaweed all over the tank. Is there a secret to doing this or is there something else I should try?

 

[jesterisdead]

The clips are nice but my tang swarm would rip it out of the clip and sections would float off and go towards over flow or powerheads and tang army wouldn't pursue. I then got another clip that had a plastic mesh that held the nori better and while they could tear off edges they had to "graze" the mesh to eat the rest. This has worked perfectly for me and I have the following tang:

Blonde naso
Tomini
Powder blue
Hippo
Yellow (2)
Sailfin

 

[Brew132]

The clips are nice but my tang swarm would rip it out of the clip and sections would float off and go towards over flow or powerheads and tang army wouldn't pursue. I then got another clip that had a plastic mesh that held the nori better and while they could tear off edges they had to "graze" the mesh to eat the rest. This has worked perfectly for me and I have the following tang:

Blonde naso
Tomini
Powder blue
Hippo
Yellow (2)
Sailfin

Can you link us to the clip?

 

[kidkaos520]

+1 I have been looking and could not find it

 

[danfeig]

You can always wrap the Nori on a small rock with several rubberbands so that your tangs or other fish need to work for it.

 

[vincent92]

I always rubber band to a rock that's big enough were the tang cant lift or move it

 

[matty1551]

An alternative to this could be leaving one side of glass Covered in algae.

I always leave the back and left panels to grow so my snails & Tang have grazing material.

I feed twice a day and have never used a seaweed clip & my tang is nice and fat.

 

[coralreefjunkie]

Here's my method: clip the nori sheets into 3" strips, dip it quickly into the water (or smear garlic juice) to soften, roll it up tightly into a 3" cylinder, and clip it to the suction cup holder. I find it's harder for the fish to tear big pieces when rolled up tightly.

 

[MurphysLaw]

I bought a clip @ GQ last year that came with the 2 mesh Sheets. I never used them but I must have tossed them out because I can't find them...But I'm sure you could just use some 1/2" mesh screen like from the bRS screen tops. I have some extra.

 

[Jerzey]

i'm not a fan of leaving nori in the tank constant as it gets all over when there eating it but i glued a plastic chip clip on my mag cleaner an it works perefect and it's fast