Help on what will eat Chaeto

[Saldarya]

Hey all,

Need some help here, a bit of Chaeto got lose in the display tank, and although it pulls off the rock pretty easily, needless to say I will never get it all. Any known fish or inverts that will eat it? You should see this stuff grow under 250W MH.

Thanks!!

 

[T Man]

Are you sure that it is chaeto? Chaeto floats free- I have never seen it attach to anything nor have I seen it being eaten by anything. What you are describing sounds like caulerpa (grape or feather) to me. Do you have a picture that you could post ? TinMan

 

[Saldarya]

Traveling atm, so cant post pics, but I assure you it is Chaeto. As small pieces brake loose, they will catch on rock and then grow. Perhaps 'attached' to the rock is a bad term, but I assure that it at least creeps along it and grows in the same clump fashion that is familiar. I agree that Chaeto is normally a free floating species in sumps ( that is where I have a mass of it), but in this case it is loose in the tank.

It is easy to pull out, and not really a bother to anything, other than it is just something else to have to deal with. THere has to be something out there that will eat it.....

Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

[yrema]

my sea hare used to eat some of my chaeto before.

 

[graveyardworm]

I got the same thing in my reef, alittle piece made it into the display and its a PITA to get it all out like you said. I've had a Foxface Rabbitfish that would suck it up like spaghetti, and I'm sure at least a few of the Tang species would eat it.

 

[Saldarya]

Thanks for the thoughts!! A foxface seems like a reasonable shot.

 

[wonk]

my blue tang eats it....but can't digest it! I comes out almost exactly like it went in, except that it take a long time to actually clear, ahem, if you get my drift... can you say 'eat at joes'?

 

[Sawl't]

My Emerald Mithrax Crab loves Chaeto. He keeps the hard to reah areas clean for me.

 

[fishyvet]

I have friends who's tangs have died from cheato intestinal obstruction (verified by necropsy)... Just FYI

 

[Coralmex]

A buddy changed his refugium from caulerpa to Cheato... However he had a Diadema sea urchin (Black spiny)... He put a bowling ball wad he got from me.. and in 5 days it was all gone...

We were amazed at how fast he ate the cheato....