Algae treat

[Rtc/tsn]

In my 40g and 29g on the back and side walls there’s a nice layer of algae and I’m wondering if I were to scrap off the algae with a razor and make it into one big sheet and roll it up into a stick and put it in a dehydrator for a while for it to dry up a little and could it be used as a treat for my flowerhorn. I’m thinking that it would be something he could also attack and drag around the tank that he can also eat overtime kinda like a dogbone for fish.

 

[Deadeye]

Doesn’t seem too far off from the nori sheets used to feed tangs and angels in reef tanks, no idea how those are prepared though.

 

[FJB]

I regularly give pieces of nori sheets to my fish. I love them and the seem very fond as well.
I would be very surprised if you can scrape up enough algae from your tank to come even close to a piece of nori. In addition, rolling it into a stick and all will be quite difficult. Once dehydrated it will look like a microscopic piece of dried snot that a single fish will swallow without even fully acknowlegingvit, and then beg for more. But if you can do it, go for it!

 

[Rtc/tsn]

I scraped the algae off my 40g back wall, tossed it into a big clump and pressed between paper towels to get water out and was left with this dog turd looking pellet, if I were to throw this in the dehydrator for a few hours on some parchment paper do you think it would work like a kind of fishy dog bone for my flowerhorn. What shape would show the best results, round like this or if I were to flatten it

 

[Rtc/tsn]

It feels like a clump of wet Barbie doll hair that’s been pressed together

 

[Rtc/tsn]

I decided to let it dry out a bit before dehydration but I just threw it into the dehydrator, I’ll post back after it’s been properly dried out and will posts. Video to how my flowerhorn reacts to it

 

[Rtc/tsn]

Getting bone dry surprisingly fast and is turning out super good, my one worry I that it’ll float but I’m not sure, it feels pretty dense

 

[duanes]

I add clumps of hair algae pulled wet, from my sump in the sun for additiosn to my cichlids diet.

 

[FJB]

 

[Rtc/tsn]

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Never updated cause the flowerhorn showed very little interest in it but my snails have been tearing it up. While it didn’t have the outcome I expected, I still plan on doing it again in the future as a food source for possibly future baby snails or triops, here soon I’ll be attempting to hatch my second generation of triops so this will be cool to see if they eat much of the algae or what the young do with that resource compared to last time when they were just in plain plastic containers.