Plant suggestions for a 6g mantis tank?

[Uriel]

Hey all,

I am still about a month out from getting my TBS live rock shipment (waiting until after a short vacation in early december, so as to be around while it acclimates etc...).

The Baron von Munchausen(G. Viridis), however, needs better digs.
I want to find/establish some plants for his little 6gallon, so as to give him a better environment to hunt and play. At present, he is pretty much sticking to his trench system and/or Castle (LR that he has hollowed out). his tank is at 79 degrees or so.


Any suggestions?

Densityman, you look to have some pretty cool bits of flora in with Tim, might Tim have any ideas?


Thanks,

-Ron

 

[sdm]

try some cheato-type-algae.

 

[DensityMan]

I've found that I enjoy the turf and scrub algaes that I ban from the main reef tank in Tim's display. They provide good cover for 'pods and grow annoying fast for harvest of excess nutrients that tend to accumulate in mantis tanks.

I have a good deal of a purple-birds-nest scrub algae and some mushroom-cap caleurpa. I wish the purple stuff shipped better, but it degrades quickly in shipping (which is too bad since I've got a handful to remove soon - perk up your ears locals).

I used to grow the spongey caleurpa, but have begun an extermination campaign against it. It's too invasive even for that 10g tank.

I also have a bit of rock-cover provided by the colonial hydroids talked about several times in Dr. Ron's forum and at least once (mistakenly) in the algae forum.

Chaeto used to grow in Tim's tank, but it was always clogging things up too quickly in a small tank. Halimeda sp. grew too quickly for it also.

Tim's tank went through a slight adjustment period a couple months back when I switched out the Coralife 96watt 50/50 PC hood for a 40wat PC hood with moonlight, but the algae listed above still do great in that environment.