Reason I use clips
To clip the fish?
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Reason I use clips
Hope he is o.k never seen that beforeIn my 30+ years of keeping marine fish, what happened yesterday has never occurred. I look at my 120 reef last night after feeding and my 14 y o purple tang has a rubber band around his entire body. I use a rubber band to secure seaweed to a small rock on a string for my tangs. Seldomly, I’ve noticed that they’ve pulled the rubber band off the rock, and left it in the tank out of difficulty getting to it among rocks. I remember my big blue tang passing a rubber band from anal cavity a long time ago, but nothing like this! I’m thinking of using the clip I have, but they pull the whole piece of seaweed off of it and it makes a mess. Anyways, I was able to net him and as I attempted to remove it, it broke, which I think would have happened eventually, but I didn’t want to take chances. It didn’t look good.
I have used a clip before but my big blue tang rips the whole 4x4 tightly rolled sheet out of the clip. So I’ve been rubber banding it to a rock hanging on thick fishing string, like a piñata. Which has worked great for years. The rubber band stays on the rock most of the time, with a little leftover under it they can’t get to. Then I remove the whole thing. On occasion they have pulled the rubber band off and I haven’t been able to find it within the tank.New Fall Fish Fashion? Our pet's get into the oddest situations... on walks, my dog manages to get himself tangled in his leash, vines, branches without much effort, but he's sort of a Murphy's law dog, anything can happen with him!
Not sure if you feed dry Nori or live seaweed. I fold my Nori several times or roll it up into a tube and clip it in halfway across the length and it prevents a good deal of ripping from the aggressive eaters.
I’ve seen decorator crabs never a decorator tang!!! LolIn my 30+ years of keeping marine fish, what happened yesterday has never occurred. I look at my 120 reef last night after feeding and my 14 y o purple tang has a rubber band around his entire body. I use a rubber band to secure seaweed to a small rock on a string for my tangs. Seldomly, I’ve noticed that they’ve pulled the rubber band off the rock, and left it in the tank out of difficulty getting to it among rocks. I remember my big blue tang passing a rubber band from anal cavity a long time ago, but nothing like this! I’m thinking of using the clip I have, but they pull the whole piece of seaweed off of it and it makes a mess. Anyways, I was able to net him and as I attempted to remove it, it broke, which I think would have happened eventually, but I didn’t want to take chances. It didn’t look good.