How to feed sea veggies?

[mskvarenina]

I feed my tangs Julian Sprung's Sea Veggies which are a dry 4"x4" thin material that I cut into 1" strips.

The problem is they break apart pretty quickly once in the tank and the fish start feeding. I've tried the vegie clip suctioned to the glass and also a rubber band around a piece of rock. Ideally there would be something the strip could slip into and generally stay intact until the fish takes a nibble on a specific section.

I was imagining some sort of plastic clip with an enlarged fence or screen type look that the fish could fit their mouths through so when they nibble they only break apart a small square at a time.


Anyone know of a good product for this?

 

[snorvich]

The guy who runs Roggers Reef food used to supply plastic mesh that could be folded over to contain his food; but it could easily be used for nori or similar type foods. This then would be inserted in a vegi-clip

 

[Rybren]

^^ This is what I do. I use a piece of the same mesh that I used for the tank cover. I hot glued the edges to form it into a sleeve that the nori slides into.

 

[mskvarenina]

The guy who runs Roggers Reef food used to supply plastic mesh that could be folded over to contain his food; but it could easily be used for nori or similar type foods. This then would be inserted in a vegi-clip

Thanks, I found his website and clip but the flat rate shipping price of $25 which does not make it economical to purchase a $10 clip.

Next I went to eBay to see if any were there and the first one that popped up was a similar clip from Ocean Nutrition at $6 shipped. One is on it's way...

 

[snorvich]

I was only offering a solution structure. Cost effectiveness can be managed a variety of do it yourself ways.

 

[houstonhobby]

I feed the same stuff and my fish love it. Pretty much all of them, not just the tangs. The only way that works for me is to take a wooden board and a straight edge razor, cut the stuff into as thin a strips as I can manage (1/8 to 1/16 inch at least) then cut them crossways so they are more or less bite size, put them into a ramekin and add a little water, let them get soaked enough so they won't float, then feed them like you would frozen food.

 

[gsiegel]

I have a trigger who would rip it off the clip so I apoxied the clip to a magna float so the trigger cannot put it off. Ha - I win. To avoid it's floating throughout the tank you can cut the seaweed in strips like laundry labels where people post for sale things on a bulletin board. Then the fish simply rip off the strips. That makes a big difference.
I have never found the mesh to work- of course that it because my fish rip it right off though.

 

[mskvarenina]

I was only offering a solution structure. Cost effectiveness can be managed a variety of do it yourself ways.

Yes and your solution was perfect as it showed me exactly what I was looking for. Then thanks to eBay I found a similar product at an affordable price. Now I have to hope it works as expected but since it's coming from Ocean Nutrition, I would assume it was engineered correctly for the purpose.

They say you can use it for both frozen blocks of food and seaweed strips. My yellow tang goes crazy for Misys shrimp and pellet food but I want to keep some greens in his diet so he stays the healthiest.