Miracle Mud..to try or not got go there?

[ferret]

If you are just keeping marco algae instead of sea grass, you don't need to add miracle mud ( too expensive and not worthwhile ) just sand bottom and a few small pcs. of live rock will be fine. And never add any fishes that consume marco algae like tang, angel, rabbit etc otherwise you tank will result in a mess even the algae has established. I've collected and kept nearly 40 types of marco algae in 3 years and encountered a heavy loss once I introduced a couple of angelfish.

[BlueAbyss]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but where did you get your macros, ferret? I originally wanted to have a macro and LPS reef, but was sort of unable to find any macros interesting enough to order online.

[ferret]

When there is a new shipment of fresh live rock and that's my opportunity to add my collection of algae by examinating pc by pc carefully. Some are collected at tropical tidal pool by chance.