Caulerpra is not growing Will this work?

[fishykid9212]

Ok Iv'e had a small ball of caulerpra for a few months and the stupid thing won't grow. I was thinking of puting it in a small tank with a little flow. Then Im going to get a Co2 thing I have from a freshwater tank. Then I'm going to squirt some florapride in the tank, this tank will have nothing in it except the caulerpra. How does it sound? Do I need to kepp a heater on it? tthakns the chaeto doesnt grow either Ill put a light on the tank too

 

[Samala]

Can I get a few more tank stats? Is this Caulerpa just sitting in the bag with no light and no fish and nothing else? Let me know what you have setup and we can all help more. Generally, for plants, the basic necessities are a little water movement, some nutrients to feed it, and enough light for it to grow (about 2wpg, more if you're going 'planted').

CO2 could be helpful once you have a forest of this stuff growing.. marine plants are good at stripping carbon from your alkalinity when there is only a small amount of plant life in your tank. Florapride.. not really familiar with it.. but if it was made for the aquatic freshwater crowd it might be usable. Might wanna list a little info from the bottle on that too.

>Sarah

 

[fishykid9212]

what do you mean? In the tank it is in the sump with light there are fish in the tanbk, the tank is a 92G I want to move it into a tank with light but put a lot of nutrients in the water so it will grow really fast. Once it grows I can put it back in the sump so it will be more efficient since there will be more of it, florapride says it supplies iron and potassium.

 

[Seahorsewisprer]

If you make it grow when it is in a different tank, won't it just go back to it's dormant state when you put it back in the fuge?

I don't think it will be more efficient because there is more of it. It grows in correlation with the nutrients available, and it you have more of it with the same nutrients, it might crash (go sexual).

In your 92, do you have too much nitrate or phosphate? Is that why you want the macro to be more efficient?

 

[fishykid9212]

yes I have too much phosphate. I also have chaeto that isn't growing so I would like to do the same with that.

 

[Seahorsewisprer]

Do you also have too much nitrate?

 

[fishykid9212]

I have some nitrate but not too too much I would like to lower it though.

 

[Samala]

Florapride gets a thumbs down if its just iron/potassium mix. You definitely dont need more potassium for macroalgae to grow.. seagrass, that's debatable. Iron can be a good addition in very small amounts, you want it to be just readable on a dependable test kit.

If you have nitrates readable and phosphates readable I am thinking perhaps light is your limiting factor. I would also be tempted to dose a little iron to the 92's system to see if that encourages growth.

>Sarah