Rethinking how I feed nori ..

[tlo]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

Try thicker elastics? I use 1/4" wide elastics and never had an issue? they do break but never eaten

I use the thicker elastics as well- only had 1 break on me in a months time and as stated, they are too big for the fish to eat.

[Zoaelite]

I usually just hand feed them (Nori goes fasssstt in my tank) but If I'm busy I use one of those magnetic frag plugs to hold it in place. Works like a charm.

[Delphinus]

I usually recycle the ones from LFS purchases too. I've used the larger ones sometimes but I'm not too keen on those since there's always a little bit under the elastic that doesn't get eaten (not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things I guess).

Also not really been a huge fan of clips because it's too messy. I used to feed that way; but ever since switching to rolled up nori over a pipe I've always thought this was a win because 1) it lasts 30 seconds longer 2) the fish get to eat all of it or close to all of it, as opposed to bits and pieces that escape and so on..

I was actually also kind of entertaining the notion of just not feeding nori anymore. I always used nori as a means to start a fish like a tang onto prepared foods but then keep up with it since they like it so much. But it would be pretty easy to compensate for the removed nori by feeding say more spirulina or gracillaria or even caulerpa which is easy enough to cultivate...

Maybe I'll just switch to thicker elastics for now until I have a bigger brain wave of an idea. I'm still tossing the idea around in my head of using some kind of hook based system and gutter guard .... hmmmmmm. We'll see, most of my DIY ideas usually don't end up going anywhere.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

(Nori goes fasssstt in my tank)

Yeah, same, that's part of the problem. They're eating it so frantically they're not stopping to see if that's all they're eating.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

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I was actually also kind of entertaining the notion of just not feeding nori anymore. .....

I couldn't imagine not feeding my little piggies Nori, They're now going through 2 sheets a day as well as all the caulerpa, dictyota, valonia ect that they can reach

[Delphinus]

Yeah me too, but I'm just trying to think outside the box here. It wouldn't be too difficult to compensate with extra feedings of say pellets on an auto feeder or something along these lines.

The nori I feed is gone so quickly it hardly counts as a feeding anymore anyhow. Adding more or larger nori has a negative impact on the tank. I just wonder how much benefit there is in my case versus the risk and the impact on the nutrient cycle.

Just wondering out loud .. for the moment I'm not stopping nori, no worries there.

[Milad]

i just changed how i do my nori
i got ****ed at the magnet clip that scratched my glass. its a nori clip with a magnet on it.

so here is what i did

I have a mesh screen with about 2 inches that is un covered where the returns go in. i took a piece of rope used for tieing up meat for cooking and tied it to my nori clip.

i tied the rope to the leg of my light fixture and then i hung the nori clip over the return line so it just hangs right in the middle of the tank about 6 inches away from the glass and the rope is not long enough to get flung up into the glass (basically didnt want to touch the glass)

this was all good until i noticed i was a noob and the nori clip floats (doh!) so i took a very small pebble of live rock and clipped it on the nori clip until it sank. once i knew how much live rock i needed which was very very small, i took some of that putty stuff you use to attach frags and molded it around the rock inbetween the clip area so the rock was not exposed at all just in case it hit the glass.

now it takes me all of 4 seconds to attach nori and the fish like it because its in open space and it seems alive since it moves, lol. you should see my lawnmower blenny swing from it.

anyways let me know if you want a pic, i can take one tomorrow when i throw some nori in.

i have a nothing touches my glass rule now. this stupid nori clip with the magnet and my small frag rack have scartched two ends of the glass and ****ed me off.

[Delphinus]

So you just have the nori clipped loose though and not rolled over anything?

Your description of the LMB though is begging for a picture So yeah, even if he's not doing the Tarzan please do post the picture when you get a chance.

[Milad]

what do you mean rolled over anything?

[Milad]

btw if i had fishing line i would use that instead of the rope because then it would look my LMB is surfing a nori clip instead of Tarzaning, lol