Corals + Macroalgae = Disaster?

Unlikely_Hero

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Right now I'm in the planning stage of moving my 55 gallon reef tank from my parents' house to mine. Naturally, my mother has grown a little attatched to it in the past year and a half, so I've decided that I'm going to set-up a seahorse tank for her in its place, that way she can have something new that she'd love and a bit of the old tank as well.

I've looked at a bunch of other peoples' seahorse set-ups to get an idea as to what I could do for her, and I noticed that using caulerpa in the main display was a bit of a trend (and it looked great). The thing is, I know that the algae in my current fuge went from minimal to packed in only a few weeks, and I'm mostly worried that it would crowd out/grow over the zoos and rics that I'll be putting in there.

So anyways, my question is, would there be a problem having both macroalgae and corals in the main system? And how much does having the macro in the main display actually benefit the horses?

My only solution is to get a hang-on fuge for the seahorse tank, but if the two won't clash, I'd like avoid having to spend the extra cash.

Thanks a lot in advance!
 
what I would do is use aquascaping to my advantage: set up a tank with 2 'hills' seperated by a gap... have the macros on one hill, where they'll be EASY-ish to prune, and the zoos, shrooms, and whatever on the other one so that if there are any tendrils going that direction, they are easy to snatch up.

the reason theres so much macro in the tank is because seahorses will use it for hitching posts and for hunting grounds.
 
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