over feeding a tank

[4fun]

Is there such a thing as over feeding alege? i just pick up a tang (4.5" Vlamingii Tang) a i put seaweed in the tank but it dose not stay on the clip. It ends up all over the place, not all beening eaten. Will this cause a problem?

[Squiers007]

Potentially, if it doesnt get eaten it will eventually break down, like other types of foods and can cause nitrate issues. I would look into getting a better clip so that you can avoid this problem in the future. Plus it will save you money in the long run because you wont have to buy so much algae.

[justahobby]

Plants store phosphates and release them during decay. If you were to continue overfeeding you will see a bloom in other algaes using up the extra nutrients.

[4fun]

10-4 get a better clip. but (s)he is a strong littel fish

[justahobby]

My tang would tear the algae off the clip, I began tearing individual pieces off to feed and worked well. It also kept her occupied while I was feeding smaller fish and coral.

[ballardjr2000]

My tang doesn't even touch the alage, it would sit on the clip until it came loose on its own. it would rather pic at the wall or eat the meaty myrsis i put in the tank. still trying to get it to eat the stuff on the clip.

[msmith619]

I have a naso, yellow tang, blue tang and an emporer angel. I have tried the algea clip for a couple of months. They are scared of it and have never eaten it. How do you coax them into trying it?

[dmweise]

Fold the algae in half or in thirds, then put the crease in the clip. It will stay in the food clip better that way.

[TinyTanker]

You need to fold your algae in thirds. Put the green inside the purple. The purple stays together longer and othernutrients as well. Whe you clip it, clip it deep so there is a lot in the clip with the ends sticking out from the final fold being in half perpindicular to the fold thirds. "Make sense?"

:applause::hypnotyized:

Also think about using a heavy rock instead of a clip. you never know, maybe your tangs are clip haters.

Tiny Tanker

[vman181]

My tang doesn't even touch the alage, it would sit on the clip until it came loose on its own. it would rather pic at the wall or eat the meaty myrsis i put in the tank. still trying to get it to eat the stuff on the clip.

Same here. Mine will just swim by it all day. Then it will fall off and just rott in the tank.

[4fun]

Not mine he attacks the clip like its alive and he has to kill it before he eats it.
this morning i feed him myrsis he ate the whole cube by himself then i feed a cube of brine he ate almost all of that as well then back to the alage. hes not a tang though hes a pig last night the same thing happened.
how do I get the smaller fish to eat?

[Kristy]

If you have one fish in the tank who will eat algae off the clip, they will often "teach"
the others by demonstration. In our tank, a surprising number (and variety) of fish eat from our algae clip, including all three angels, our mystery wrasse and cleaner wrasse, the occasional blenny, and of course, all four tangs.

Our big fat blue hippo tang (emphasis on the hippo) LOVES the algae so much that he won't let me get the clip back on the wall before he's tearing it out of the clip. We cut our sheets of algae into hand-sized pieces, and then cut that into strips (much like when you see a flyer posted on a college campus with little tear-off phone numbers at the bottom of the page). That was our solution to keep them from tearing the whole piece out of the clip, having that float around and go straight to the overflow. Learned that from a guy at Aquarium Designs that we saw cutting them that way.

[4fun]

ok i'll try that