vahegan's UAS test

[vahegan]

My screen is in the sump, they have no access to it. My sump is on the same level as the display, its actually a section in the left of the tank. But they both nip on the algae growing on the glass wall which is between the sump and the tank. I'll try to attach a sheet of nori there to see whether the angel would try some.

Thank you all, guys, for your input on this matter. I posted questions on weaning the angel on many forums, but nowhere got as much useful advice as here in an unrelated forum...

[Garf]

My tangs eat more nori if it's cut up into 3 to 5 mm squares and allowed to float around the tank. Just a thought !

[vahegan]

Thank you, Garf!
Will try it both ways.

My concern is, the angel never touches anything floating in water (I even tried live baby endlers - strange that none of my fishes recognized them as food - perhaps they lived too long in a vegetarian home). The angel hides whenever there is floating stuff in the water and comes out for grazing when its clear again. That's why I thought of rather attaching it somewhere on a clip so maybe he would have it that way - in the hope that it may sort of look more "natural" to him.

[vahegan]

It was the regular screen cleaning day today.

Screen front before clean (note the amount of algae on the clear plastic sheet)



Back side of the screen. Almost no growth.



Scrubbed algae. The largest pile (left) is the algae collected from the clear plastic sheet, the second pile is from the screen front, and third - from the back. There was almost no algae grown on the clear sheet on the back side of the screen.



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I desided to remove the clear plastic sheets and install a mirror, as planned.

I siliconed a glass to the back of the mirror for protection, and attached small pieces of acrilic on the top, using cyanoacrilate (superglue) to mount it on the front and back glass of the sump.



The new construction in action. Let's see the crop in a week...

[SantaMonica]

Light on the back side will make a lot of difference.