Rubber bands not fish safe!

[BZOFIQ]

Reason I use clips

To clip the fish?

 

[waynel]

Wow! How? That would be like me getting a rubber band around my head without using any of my limbs. Magic!

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

What the heck!?! That's nuts!!

 

[LA Reef Addict]

He couldn't wait to rep the championship ring for the purple and gold (lakers) ; )

 

[austibella]

In 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.

Hope he is o.k never seen that before

 

[Rjramos]

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 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.

 

[Leslie Tabor]

This is crazy! I use little clear hair bands to hold nori sheets to a chunk of rock and never in my life would I have thought this could happen!

 

[Zartan]

In 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’ve seen decorator crabs never a decorator tang!!! Lol

 

[KWSanders]

He was just trying to shoot the eye out of one of your yellow tail damsels

 

[Bleigh]

Crazy!!!!

 

[schuby]

I use a clip, but I fold the 4x4 sheet in half, then in half again. I clip it on the thickest fold and then cut it into 3-4 strips (4 deep from folding) using scissors. When the tangs rip off a piece, it is only one of the strips and not the whole sheet.

 

[Thespammailaccount]

That is amazing

 

[PranK]

I feel sorry for the little guy. Do you know how long it took him to get it on like that?

 

[spiraling]

That's a racing stripe! The old guy is trying to look retro fast.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

So rubber bands aren't reef safe? Wow, weird. Good to know! Fwiw I use this for seaweed, works great!

 

[Lovefish77]

Strange as he seems enjoying the ride . From what I have seen fish can shake their body vigorously if they want to shed off something like that ...interesting behavior!!
My sailfish tang, biggest fish in my tank and the most gluttonous that he has to try and take a bite of everything that goes into the tank (food, my fingers, forearm, whatever...). A couple of months back I just glued sometimes with super glue and he took a large bite from that super glue blob that half of his mouth was glued. I thought the poor guy would die. But in 2 days he was able to shed it off maybe with oils that they release off their skins. Just wanted to share.

 

[Bepis]

Can we get a after pic

 

[Bfragale]

One is a million... or billion... glad he’s ok, thanks for sharing! Something we will probably only see once in a lifetime lol. “Rubber bands not reef safe” lol.

 

[Spieg]

Reminds me of something else I saw somewhere.

 

[Ferrell]

Had a similar thing happen to my yellow tang back in the 80s. I used to feed him Romaine lettuce tied to a pvc fitting with a rubber band. His was wrapped around his nose and mouth.
I still use rubber bands and a feeding rock but nori now