Hi,
I noticed one of my tanks has no bryopsis at all. I guess it's possible none ever got into that tank, not even a cell of it. But I dont see how it's never been introduced somehow. It has LOTS of caulerpa and I feed it pretty well for the only 4 small medium fish in it. It's a 40 gall max total system. Two OSFF and 2 neon gobies. I feed them a lot as they love to eat. No nuisance algae other than the caulerpa, but that's posibly keeping down the other bad stuff. I have nerites which keep any cyano away as well.
My bigger 110 reef though will easily grow bryopsis if I dont keep on top of my Mex Turbo population. They die for whatever reason or are killed by the hermits. To keep the bry down in that tank (i do NOT want caulerpa touching it), would a LOT of chaeto rapidly gowing do that? I have a approx 7 gall on refug area in my supm with a good fuge light, the chaeto grows thick and well. But if I got a separate cheato reactor. would that basically strangle off the bryopsis? Like I said the mex turbos keep it clean , but it's impoossible to keep up with the population over time.
TY!
I noticed one of my tanks has no bryopsis at all. I guess it's possible none ever got into that tank, not even a cell of it. But I dont see how it's never been introduced somehow. It has LOTS of caulerpa and I feed it pretty well for the only 4 small medium fish in it. It's a 40 gall max total system. Two OSFF and 2 neon gobies. I feed them a lot as they love to eat. No nuisance algae other than the caulerpa, but that's posibly keeping down the other bad stuff. I have nerites which keep any cyano away as well.
My bigger 110 reef though will easily grow bryopsis if I dont keep on top of my Mex Turbo population. They die for whatever reason or are killed by the hermits. To keep the bry down in that tank (i do NOT want caulerpa touching it), would a LOT of chaeto rapidly gowing do that? I have a approx 7 gall on refug area in my supm with a good fuge light, the chaeto grows thick and well. But if I got a separate cheato reactor. would that basically strangle off the bryopsis? Like I said the mex turbos keep it clean , but it's impoossible to keep up with the population over time.
TY!