cannot get rid of caulerpa!!

[Razzagas]

I have been in an on going battle with caulerpa for the last year.
When i switched to my 65 gallon i cooked the rock for a month, but it still came back. My params are perfect, and i cannot get a tang/rabbitfish due to size. I don't know what to do, because it is EVERYWHERE!

Any ideas??!?!

 

[Razzagas]

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[bureau13]

Well, you COULD get a small tang or something as long as you have a home in mind for it when it outgrows your tank. I'm not sure which of them will necessarily eat caulerpa however.

There are a couple types of urchin that are supposed to like caulerpa...one mentioned was the long spine urchin, which can get huge, so again...you may have to give it to someone eventually, the other was...I forgot. But search on caulerpa and urchin and you should find it. I have a bit of a caulerpa racemosa problem right now (nowhere near what you have thank God ) so I'm looking at these things too.

jds

 

[steve414]

I had the same problem. just take all the rock that has it on it out and take it off by hand and what ever tools you can find or just cure it again with no light and brush it.

 

[phoenixstar89]

you could always try a sea hare.

 

[xDave]

Long spine urchins love it. Don't remember their scientific name but they're the black ones with long thin spines and what looks like an orange eyeball in the middle.

 

[Razzagas]

I would try a sea hare, although I am afraid of their tendency to leech purple toxic dye...
Anyone have any experience with sea hares?

 

[Sk8r]

Run carbon continually: "Animal Library Invertebrates" online says the purple dye is over-feared as a toxin. The sea hare would get it in small recesses. I use a hairy colored pincushion urchin [not your common pincushion: striped] for grape, but he has trouble getting into recesses. He pulls the stuff to him, but cannot reach the last of it. You can get both at Foster/Smith.