What is your best Calerpia Eater?

[mwood]

I've had two long spine urchins, they can mow over sps and won't necessarily eat the calurpa.

I do feel for you. I had a 75 that was overrun with calurpa forever. Foxface and a PBT worked, but they also ate all my corals. Best thing I ever did was put all that rock in the sump and got new rock.

 

[Modemagic]

What does this Calurpa look like? I wonder if I have it and don't know it.

I read alot about how great Yellow tangs were in eating algae and blah blah blah. Mine is worthless for that, but he does like seaweed, and apparently anything I try to feed my clowns as well. He's a hungry little booger.

 

[mwood]

Here's a good shot of what I used to have.

 

[Modemagic]

I'm calerpia stupid apparently.... is it the purple thing or the green things around it?

 

[Sk8r]

Purple tang got mine, in short order---but it's not 100% with them: test the particular fish for his behavior.

 

[atram]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9529056#post9529056 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Modemagic
I'm calerpia stupid apparently.... is it the purple thing or the green things around it?

The green stuff is the calerpa.

 

[matt the fiddler]

you have gotten it to start receding. I would continue what you are doing, and see if you can add things that will make it go backwards. YOu are making progress, so it may be a matter of time.. and weeding to stay ahead of it... If you get one of the "hot or miss" species.. I am sure you could sell it to someone in the club, if it doesn't do anything to the algae.... It would be worth it to see if it can make a dent


Also, it is rumored that the remote sandbeds can make a HUGE dent in some forms algae, but not sure with your current reactors that you already have what it will do towards the algae. If you have a spare bucket and some sand... that might bring back the sand's anaerobic benefits with out the nutrient storage. It would be worth it to try it....

Will a UV kill the spores so it won't spread? I think I remember several people mentioning that helped on some types of algae, with a few other methods. get a big one if you do


Also, I would get your ORP probe programmed so it will call your phone or beep if the algae goes sexual.... just as a back up, as that is the only BIG Disaster that could come at you before this is resolved.

 

[mwood]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9531339#post9531339 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by matt the fiddler
you have gotten it to start receding. I would continue what you are doing, and see if you can add things that will make it go backwards. YOu are making progress, so it may be a matter of time.. and weeding to stay ahead of it... If you get one of the "hot or miss" species.. I am sure you could sell it to someone in the club, if it doesn't do anything to the algae.... It would be worth it to see if it can make a dent


Also, it is rumored that the remote sandbeds can make a HUGE dent in some forms algae, but not sure with your current reactors that you already have what it will do towards the algae. If you have a spare bucket and some sand... that might bring back the sand's anaerobic benefits with out the nutrient storage. It would be worth it to try it....

Will a UV kill the spores so it won't spread? I think I remember several people mentioning that helped on some types of algae, with a few other methods. get a big one if you do


Also, I would get your ORP probe programmed so it will call your phone or beep if the algae goes sexual.... just as a back up, as that is the only BIG Disaster that could come at you before this is resolved.

Remote sandbeds take care of nitrates and not phosphates. I have been considering adding one to my tank. Does anyone have one and can they tell about it?

 

[matt the fiddler]

I was thinking of Covey's 10 times over sized super skimmer... get poop it out before it decomposes.

I had a small RSB going for a few months before I moved, so I didn't get to see the long term benefits of it, though I think it helped [coupled with BB, Heavy skimming, partial rock cooking, etc.] to remove the hair algae out of my tank. I did so many things at once, it is hard to tell how much of one had how much of a say in solving the problem.

 

[Covey]

Just got a Salifert Phosphate test kit today to the P04. The Phosar and podibio seem to be doing its job. Not a hint a blue in the test kit, 0.0! I guess the AP phos test was right. Had to test my avatars water to make sure I was doing it right.


I also bought I powder blue. pics to come. AE had some real nice fish in this week. This thing is fat and still bright blue so hopefully everything will go smoothily.

 

[Covey]

Just so you now I am not just picking the pretty fish I wanted in the first place this chubby fellow was the reason I pulled the trigger

I tried to get a decent picture of him all week but my camera isn't fast enough. So I gave up and shot some video

and the calerpia :mad2:


Him and the yellow tang are trading shot but it is mostily passing


Species wise the blue is suppose to be the most aggressive but the yellow was the jerk in the tank and the blue seem to be personally mellow so I hope it works out.

Feeding wise the blue doesn't eat anything offered yet but does pick and the algae in the tank. Good thing I guess but I do want him eating

so far so good

 

[faylor]

It has been quite some time for me but here are some thoughts.
1. Get a UV steralizer
2. Isolate the idol in the sump or at a friends house, and force the tangs to do their job.
as for your other fish the blenny and the cromis they will be fine without any foor for 2-3-4 days straight. so feed like twice a week once at a time and mebee the tangs will get the hint. Other than that I got nothin.
GL
Joe

 

[leeweber85]

Nice fish, it looks pretty healthy. I sure wish we had a local store with healthy stock around here.