Need some advice

[baileythed0g]

I was wondering if anyone could help me with the selection of some macroagla for my refugium. I'm currently running an 80 gallon saltwater setup with a 30 gallon refugium. I was hoping to plant some macroalgaes that would serve as food for my fish in the display tank.

I have a yellow tang as well as a flame angel that I know are heavy grazers.

Any ideas would be most welcome! Thank you!

 

[mastou]

My yellow tang is crazy about red gracilaria, and I have heard that chaeto also is popular among tangs but I haven't tried feeding it to my tang yet

/Magnus

 

[Mariner]

My Hippo tang chows on any kind of caulerpa or gracillaria. Won't touch chaeto. Not saying that's true of all tangs though...individual fish have different tastes.
FWIW,
Mariner

 

[graveyardworm]

Ulva is good fish food macro as well.

 

[baileythed0g]

Thanks, I've seen my tang go for Caulerpa and this mystery red algae that I have but not so much for Chaeto. Ultimately, caulerpa caused too many chemistry problems and was too hard to keep in check so I got rid of most of it by manually ripping it out and tossing it.

I'll look into buying Ulva. I'm getting the impression that Gracillaria is too hard to grow in nutrient poor systems. Perhaps the same is true for Ulva?

 

[graveyardworm]

Your probably going to have trouble growing any desireable macro in a nutrient poor system.