Why only feed Nori on a clip?

[kgeig001]

I always have such a hard time adding nori to a clip in order to feed my tangs and foxface. It always ends up being pulled off and a large chunk floats around the tank. Today I just put a large sheet in a food chopper and basically made nori flake food...my tangs and foxface loved it...why don't I ever hear of people doing it this way or have I just missed that thread?

 

[GimpyFin]

The clip gives them something to casually graze on. Some brands/types of nori are definitely much better than others as far as breaking apart easily and floating around the tank.

 

[scuzy]

I use the innovation marine marine grazer it helps the body from being pulled all over the place.


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[cloak]

I always have such a hard time adding nori to a clip in order to feed my tangs and foxface. It always ends up being pulled off and a large chunk floats around the tank. Today I just put a large sheet in a food chopper and basically made nori flake food...my tangs and foxface loved it...why don't I ever hear of people doing it this way or have I just missed that thread?

I think you missed that thread... Make sure to soak the Nori in a cup of water for a few minutes beforehand though. You don't want the flakes going over the falls and winding up in your sump.
Be able to graze from a clip all day is nice, but it's not really needed IME.

 

[heathlindner25]

Rubberband it to a piece of rubble Rock

 

[CStrickland]

I roll it up into a tight log that my tang can naturally graze on over a few days. I zip tie it to a small rock and drop that on the sand. He goes back and forth between grazing the rocks and nibbling his joint.
I'd be wary of chopping it into the water, nori is very high in phosphate.

This reminded me to put more in, here's a pic of him going to town on his fresh nori rock

 

[reefwars]

If you take it and wrap it around a piece of small pvc pipe a couple times and elastic band it on each end they can only pull off what they can bite