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08/01/2007, 08:39 AM
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how to get calupera out of my tank
I have a lot of calupera growing in my 12gal nano. How do get control of it before it takes over my hole tank? Any suggestions would be great.
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#2
08/01/2007, 08:55 AM
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Get new rock. Seriously.
The ONLY other solution is to set up a somewhat large refugium, and for a 12 g nano, that's a bit extreme. On the other hand, you've got the nano, and caulerpa growing, and some live rock: you could use IT for the refugium, do nothing to it, move your specimens over to a connected 20g tank with clean live rock, and expand....
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#3
08/01/2007, 09:12 AM
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Not appropriate for a nano, but the only solution that worked for me was a foxface. Normal tangs wouldn't cut it for the type I had. My rock looks perfectly clean but I know it is still lurking, hiding, waiting, for the demise of my foxface..... The marine equivalent of Kudzu.
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08/01/2007, 09:35 AM
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Yep, that's a problem: the stuff is toxic except to a handful of fishes in the tang and rabbitfish families, the tripneustes gracillis urchin, one of the larger urchins, and even survives rock cooking---it did on my rock. It roots deep into crevices, and can start reappearing in any return favorable conditions. It's not really good for a refugium, unless you have a good fine screen between refugium and tank, because any little fragment of it that gets into your display tank is going to start it all over again if it ever gets a root down. I've fought it for two years, and the presence of a large, highly competitive refugium is the only thing that's seriously checked it.
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08/01/2007, 09:42 AM
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And with a 12g nano, there's absolutely no fish and no invert that eats the stuff. It has to be manual removal and restriction of fertilizer [keeping nitrates and phosphates as close to 0 as possible---via skimming [which a lot of nanos don't have] and a refugium, [which is larger than most nanos.] This tank has a major problem, and the only honest fix is to pull the rock.
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#7
08/01/2007, 12:26 PM
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Can I put a foxface in a 12gal nano
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#8
08/01/2007, 12:32 PM
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And what about a nubibranches? And if yes what kind?will they do well in a 12gal nano?
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#9
08/01/2007, 12:36 PM
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No. IMO a small one would be ok for 55 to start out. I would say a 75 or bigger.
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