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12-05-2010, 09:34 PM
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grape calpera
Is this stuff good for a refugium?
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12-05-2010, 09:35 PM
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Yup, very good stuff. Just don't get it in your Display tank, as it will grow everywhere.
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12-05-2010, 10:49 PM
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Not the best though...if you can get the caulerpa prolifera, now that's a good refugium plant as it will grow like crazy and asbord all the nitrates. It is the fastest growing algae, much faster than anything else, even cheato. Not to be put in a display tank as it is very hard to erradicate. Yellow and blue tang love to eat it.
I had grape caulerpa and it did not grow fast in my tank.
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12-05-2010, 11:48 PM
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Grape Caulerpa
I still have nightmares from when it got into my DT. It grew like crazy. I was picking fistfuls of it daily. It was smothering some of my coral. Somehow I got rid of it. There's still small amounts of it growing here and there, but it's under control. I grow Chaeto in the sump and it never got into my DT. It grows like a week under good lighting (that's the key) and keeps the pH stable as well as lowers the nitrates/phosphates. It will inhibit algae growth in the DT to boot.
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12-06-2010, 02:32 AM
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My caulerpa goes sexual a few times per year and it never bother the corals, quite the opposite as they seem to like this, probably eat the spores. It does turn the water milty white though!
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12-06-2010, 10:59 PM
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I use caulerpa in my refugium. Yes, it does die back periodically...but never completely. I've never seen any ill effects from any die off. I usually harvest plenty of it before it does that.
Any that escapes into the DT is immediately consumed by my fish. In fact, I feed the harvest to them and they devour it. The ultimate in recycling!
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