Rethinking how I feed nori ..

[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

[Delphinus]

I use fishing line to hold a 4" piece of 1/2" PVC. I roll the nori over the clip so that the tangs have to graze the nori instead of mow the nori. I used a clip for a few years until I noticed a huge difference in how fat my tangs were at the time compared to the tangs of those who fed them by rolling the nori over a pipe instead. Now people tell ME I have fat tangs and I'm all "Thanks! It's the rolled up nori that's the secret."

The problem is holding it down to the PVC, I criss cross an elastic over top of the nori and that works except that the elastics only last a few days for me. If I'm lucky, it breaks when I put it on and I just replace it. But otherwise it ends up in the tank or apparently in a tang.

Hmmm I wonder if O-rings would work better. Two of them, one on each edge and just roll it onto the nori. Might have to give that a whirl..