Anybody try Red Mangroves?

[partagas]

I have so much green hair alge that it is making hate my tank. I was wondering if anybody has tried Red Mangroves?

 

[Nammy]

Never tried it.
Have you talked about your tank on this board to try and diagnose why you have an hair algae problem?

 

[TA]

I've been hearing from other members in the club that the sea hare thats been being passed around (I believe compliments of cruella) will devour the stuff. Last I seen him, he was the size of a baseball...didn't see him in action, but I did see the results!

 

[xian]

I don't believe Darryl's puffer will be sea hare compatable.

Michael's growing mangroves though.

 

[monti-mike]

Use Mangroves the red ones bought them at a shop that sells regular plants found them small 3 for like 8-9$ in NJ when i lived there.........have grown big maybe 2-1/2 feet now in 5 yrs..... thinking aout making a mangrove order let me know if u are interested????????


Macro algea, plus a good clean up crew helps out the best, and use RO/DI/TFC water.......

peace
mike

 

[michaelg]

One of the places I listed before has them pretty cheap as well as other algaes. Mangroves, IMO, do not grow fast enough to make a dent in nuissance algaes. Chateomorpha or calerpa are your best bet for a competition algae.

 

[plandy]

I second Michael's above opinion. Mangroves are nice to look at but they don't grow fast enough to export substantial amount of waste. Chaeto is still the best way to go for actual performance. That does not mean you cannot add mangroves for the cool factor.

 

[monti-mike]

Mangroves will take a long time but it does help to make up a part of the biodivirsity needed for reef tanks and in a small way do pull some waste out of the water, had them with no algeas and they grew great and pulled small amounty out of the water but macro algea are they way to pull mass amounts out of it. and a skimmer of course, for actual nutrient export......

be careful with sea urchins my long black spine ate trrough my mangroves one time then they were moved _.......

 

[partagas]

I have to agree with Mat. My puffer would eat the sea hare with out thinking twice. He ate three black spine urchins and looked for more.

 

[waterdog1]

I have many mangroves. I dedicated small tank in fact. It took 2 years but they finally have prop roots about 6 inches. They dont take a lot of N out but they are (as they say down east) wicked cool