Wrapping a rubber band on a rock to hold nori

degibson84

degibson84

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I have just acquired a powder brown tang and have been trying to get him to eat larry's premium seaweed.

Problem is I can't find my old clip and have no real way to let it sit there.


I have seen in some local shops they attach lettuce to a rock with a rubber band and was wondering if anyone has done this with nori or other algae sheets? I was afraid it wouldn't hold like real veggies since nori is t really as tough
 
I used to wrap a rubber band on folded up nori and tuck it into the rockwork to get my powder blue tang to eat it.
 
I had my hippo tang for almost a month before he decided to eat seaweed. I tried every color,modeled every other day, and he always chose to eat the meaty foods.n then one day I watched him nip at a piece of seaweed and then the rest was history. Never exhibits any signs of hlle. As long as the tang is healthy I think there's some wiggle room for them to reject seaweed before they realize.

It's like when you get your first apartment and eat nothing but pizza and McDonald's for a week straight and then u get the urge to eat some spinach out of nowhere
 
I use a frag plug turned upside down, and fold and wrap the nori onto the plug and hold it there with a rubber band. Works great.
 
He is eating larry's herbivore but seems to spit the veggies and other stuff out.


Was also thinking I could just throw some between my glass and my algae free hammerhead and use that to hold it in place
 
I don't think Nori goes bad as long as you don't see any fungus or anything grow on it.
I have Yellow tang that eats nori but my Tomini Tang won't touch it. My Tomini graze the rocks and glass for algae and eat pellet, frozen mysis and brine but not nori
 
Nori shouldn't go bad. Difference between green and brown/red is that the green is roasted. My fish seem to prefer the green.
Best algae holder I've used hands down is the IM one. https://premiumaquatics.com/products/innovative-marine-gourmet-grazer.html Problem with clips is that the algae usually tears early from a clip. The IM holds the whole piece and it has a nice strong magnet. My fish also don't like the algae in the LRS mixed frozen food, but will take it readily from the feeder alone.
 
I have had MUCH better luck with the rubber band approach compared to the clip. None of my fish will touch the clipped nori but as soon as the nori is attached to a rock with a rubberband they are all over it. It will definitely hold it.
 
none of my fish, including my kole tang, ever show any interest in nori. i started buying the new era feeding rings and they go absolutely NUTS for those.
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That's how I introduced them to it in qt. then after that, it gets sandwiched between a mag float on the glass. Works better than a clip for me, and wider.

I cut the sheet into smaller sheets and then snip the small sheet into tear away strips.

This way as a tang goes for the seaweed, it rips off a snippet of the sheet instead of tearing the whole sheet and then the whole damn thing is in the water column.


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