Grape Caulpera

[martlla26]

I just wanted everyone's opinions on having grape caulpera in the main tank. I have a 7 gallon minibow. I noticed it starting to grow out of a zoo frag I put in the tank about a month ago.

I am also in the process of making an AC 300 fuge, and I planned on having chaeto in the fuge. I guess I could harvest some grape caulpera and use that instead?

 

[Goldberry]

No grape caulerpa in the main tank, IMO. It attaches to your rock and is difficult to harvest. Grape caulerpa in the fuge would work -- it grows fast!

 

[Daemonfly]

In nano tanks, grape caulerpa is one of the worst macros you can have, imho. I'm fighting with it in my 5.5g

 

[SuperNerd]

Heck no. You will regret it later.

 

[Kelmen]

If you have the right herbivor/omnivore to control them, then its no worry.

Fish like tang and most hermit go craze nut over them.

 

[SuperNerd]

If you have the right herbivor/omnivore to control them, then its no worry.

Fish like tang and most hermit go craze nut over them.

Exactly which tangs and hermits??

 

[ReefWreak]

I put in a 12" long strand of grape caulerpa into my display, as I wanted it to grow a little and get rid of some of my nitrates, and it was eaten within the first 2 days, and I don't even have a tang!

It was mostly hermit crabs that ate it, as everything else eats food pellets.

 

[Mihai]

Stay away from it! It may very easy take over the tank, it's very hard to pull it off once it does. I'd say to kill it asap and put kalk paste over it. In my tank nobody eats it (neither hermits (blue, red, or otherwise) nor the yellow tang).

M.

 

[Kelmen]

Exactly which tangs and hermits??

in my case, yellow tang (take the grape as snack) and red hairy hermit crab (non-reef-safe) (definitely love the grapes so much)

I think eletric blue hermit may like it too.

 

[SuperNerd]

I think eletric blue hermit may like it too.

Really?
I have an electric orange and it doesn't touch it. Neither do the hawaiians, blue legs, or this orange one with a big white claw that jumps when it gets scared.

 

[Ironsheikh]

emerald crabs and blue hermts

 

[Daemonfly]

Well, a tang won't do too well in a 7g Minibow