Rethinking how I feed nori ..

Lance · #1 11-09-2010, 02:13 AM

I've seen nori clips with magnet attachments on them but I can't remember where. I'll try Googling it in a bit.
Your Sailfin reminds me of a dog we used to have. Every Christmas the silly thing would be walking around with tinsel hanging from its butt. Of course I had to be the one to rescue the tinsel.

Lance · #2 11-09-2010, 02:17 AM

"Veggie Mag" by Two Little Fishies

globaldesigns · #3 11-09-2010, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Lance

I've seen nori clips with magnet attachments on them but I can't remember where. I'll try Googling it in a bit.
Your Sailfin reminds me of a dog we used to have. Every Christmas the silly thing would be walking around with tinsel hanging from its butt. Of course I had to be the one to rescue the tinsel.

I like that, please find the link.... No scratchy of the glassy with that.

banditpowdercoat · #4 11-09-2010, 02:19 AM

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

tlo · #5 11-09-2010, 03:04 AM

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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 · #6 11-09-2010, 03:07 AM

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 · #7 11-09-2010, 03:13 AM

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(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.

Delphinus · #8 11-09-2010, 03:12 AM

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.

marie · #9 11-09-2010, 04:25 AM

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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 · #10 11-09-2010, 05:18 AM

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.