Feeding Nori?

[dragoneggs]

How often do you feed Nori on a clip? Continously, daily, weekly? My concern is whether and how much does it contribute to excess nutrients in the tank.

 

[capdippe]

I've been giving 3 full clips once sometimes twice a day. I only have 2 tangs, and 2 wrasses that eat it. However I've been batteling light dusting of cyano, and green slime. A clip would be a 3-5" by 2-3" section of nori. I was wondering the same thing too.

 

[dragoneggs]

I wrap (rubber band) a 1in by 8in strip around a DIY acrylic cube.

 

[lvsuckerfish]

I feed it everyday as I have 3 tangs and one getting rather large

 

[ac7av]

I feed at least 2 square feet of it every day. 6 tangs in my tank along with many others that eat it. I have been cutting back a bit and switching to more meaty food for the other fish in the tank. I found that it was causing a red algae problem from time to time in my tank.

 

[thatguy559]

I've been giving 3 full clips once sometimes twice a day. I only have 2 tangs, and 2 wrasses that eat it. However I've been batteling light dusting of cyano, and green slime. A clip would be a 3-5" by 2-3" section of nori. I was wondering the same thing too.

thats alot of nori is that all you feed them?

 

[dragoneggs]

I feed at least 2 square feet of it every day. 6 tangs in my tank along with many others that eat it. I have been cutting back a bit and switching to more meaty food for the other fish in the tank. I found that it was causing a red algae problem from time to time in my tank.

Wow! Maybe you should learn some sushi roll technics and stuff with rice shrimp and avocado. They must be pigs!

 

[NC2WA]

I feed once 4-7 days..My blonde naso tang devours it in a matter of minutes, but the blueface and regal do like it as well.

 

[dragoneggs]

I feed once 4-7 days..My blonde naso tang devours it in a matter of minutes, but the blueface and regal do like it as well.

Kind of my routine too but was think about increasing just because my Chevron loves the stuff. BUT... I think this was a big contributor to hair algae in my old tank when I constantly fed it.

 

[tamarindthai]

can buy from any asain market place,already shreaded no additive ready to feed
here it is $2.99 per one,,fish love themi had been used for 4 years now feed them everyday,,BTW recommended by jonathanROW

 

[dragoneggs]

I buy the large sheets from Asian store... $1.59 a pack, no english on it but there are 10 sheets about 8in by 9in. Plain green Nori and perforated in one inch strips for easy tear and wrap around my 'feeding block'.

 

[mcoomer]

I pick mine up at Uwajimaya in Bellevue. It comes precut which makes it easy for me to grab a few pieces and put it in the tank. I use an acrylic cube that's suspended with monofilatment line. I put anywhere from 3-6 pieces in the tank a day. The first few sheets disappear almost immediately and the rest get grazed on. I've got two of the fattest tangs you're every going to see.

Mike

 

[reefbobc]

I pick mine up at Uwajimaya in Bellevue. It comes precut which makes it easy for me to grab a few pieces and put it in the tank. I use an acrylic cube that's suspended with monofilatment line. I put anywhere from 3-6 pieces in the tank a day. The first few sheets disappear almost immediately and the rest get grazed on. I've got two of the fattest tangs you're every going to see.

Mike

I have a question...
I have tried on 2-3 occations to try and get my Blue Tang to eat Nori without success. I put it on a clip and can leave it in there for a couple of days and she will not touch it. Any ideas?

 

[thatguy559]

What else do to feed them. I got mine to eat nori by slowly introducing it with the other meaty foods shredded up into small pieces. Now they eat it from a clip

 

[mcoomer]

I have a question...
I have tried on 2-3 occations to try and get my Blue Tang to eat Nori without success. I put it on a clip and can leave it in there for a couple of days and she will not touch it. Any ideas?

May sound harsh, but don't feed the tank. I'm not saying that you should starve your fish but skip several days or a week at least, keeping nori in the tank all the time. Your fish will find it.

Mike

 

[reefbobc]

What else do to feed them. I got mine to eat nori by slowly introducing it with the other meaty foods shredded up into small pieces. Now they eat it from a clip

I also have a pair of Clowns and I feed all of them Spectrum pellets which they all eat (the Tang is a pig) and Mysis shrimp that the Tang will not eat but the Clowns love.

 

[reefbobc]

May sound harsh, but don't feed the tank. I'm not saying that you should starve your fish but skip several days or a week at least, keeping nori in the tank all the time. Your fish will find it.

Mike

I may have to try that, but I always feel so guilty starving my fish!

 

[dragoneggs]

And it is such a pleasure to feed them a little bit a couple times a day plus I have small pellets on an eheim auto feeder. I would agree on cutting back on other food for the tang and he should go after the nori. Putting it lower in the tank might help too. My tang doesn't like to feed near the surface if he doesn't have to.