How to feed nori

[ECU stew]

I recently introduced a powder brown tang into my main display. He is eating mysis very well, but I am concerned that he will not eat the nori strips I have been placing in the tank. He is grazing on the sparse hair algae I have (thank god) and other things such as macro (halymedia) he can find in the rock. Does anyone have any tips to entice him to eat the stips since it is their primary food source in the wild?

 

[75gsalt]

Attach with a rubber band to a piece of rock, or I have heard of people suspending it from the center brace. kinda cool idea. My tang won't eat nori yet so thats what I'm going to try.

 

[ECU stew]

Thanks for the help, I actually put mine under the inside of the mag-float to suspend it on the glass. I was thinking more along the lines of additives or preperations that would attract the tang to it.

 

[75gsalt]

You could use garlic some people talk about some stuff called Selcon, not quite sure what it is yet.

 

[klepto]

You can try cutting the nori (I like the unroasted) into small pieces and basting it into the water column. Soaking it in some tank water may reduce it's buoyancy. If you like you can enrich it with a vitamin. (selcon is a popular vitamin C and lipid supplement) I like to use a fresh garlic clove instead of some garlic product. From what I have read, many of the beneficial properties of the garlic are only present after it is freshly cut. I score the clove (so the oils are released) and drop that in with whatever I am going to feed.

Some tangs won't go for the nori unless it is attached to the rockwork- so the above mentioned rubberband method can be helpful.

 

[ALH]

I suspend the nori on an Ocean Nutrition clip. I've used other clips that didn't perform well, but the ocean Nutrition clips are great

 

[DeepSeaHunter]

i use alligator teeth clips for my nori. they are heavy and sink to the bottom of the tank. i have it attached to a fishing line so i can pick it up when i need to attach more. i also use this frozen food called "roggers" it apparently has garlic and other vitamins in there, so i guess adding garlic to your food make fish eat, cause when i drop the roggers food in, everyone goes on a feeding frenzy.

 

[Paulca916]

You can try cutting the nori (I like the unroasted) into small pieces and basting it into the water column. Soaking it in some tank water may reduce it's buoyancy. If you like you can enrich it with a vitamin. (selcon is a popular vitamin C and lipid supplement) I like to use a fresh garlic clove instead of some garlic product. From what I have read, many of the beneficial properties of the garlic are only present after it is freshly cut. I score the clove (so the oils are released) and drop that in with whatever I am going to feed.

Some tangs won't go for the nori unless it is attached to the rockwork- so the above mentioned rubberband method can be helpful.

+1 The Selcon is highly recomended for tangs (helps to ward off lateral line disease) and the garlic also helps to increase all fishes immune system.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Clips for seaweed.

Also try frozen Ocean nutrition RDF form 1-2
H2O frozen herbivore
Rods

Pellets mine love are the nls, ON 1-2, and Hikari A-S depending on it how big the fish is.

 

[Swim]

How big is the tang? I've had success crumbling nori into flake size and pre-soaking them (So they don't float out of the tank so easy.) when feeding small fish. Even the clowns will eat it when it's small flakes. It's a pain to always prepare this way so it's more a "treat" than a staple.

 

[tozzi]

Id try soakin some flake size pieces in garlic and making it the first thing you feed them. Seams like they are more hungry for their first meal of the day and ready to attack whatever goes in, so i try to feed them the more important stuff then.

 

[ECU stew]

I'll try the garlic and feeding it as the first meal of the day. I've always put it in after the morning mix of frozen. I think I still have some of the on rf2 I can try that also. Thanks, Stew

 

[ECU stew]

I tried soaking it with the pemysis cyclopeeze and reef mix 2 and he is tearing it up, thanks for the help!