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Posted: June 18 2008 at 3:59pm |
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i just got some grape calorpia spelled something like that i am growing in my sump to help pull out nutrients i read one post saying that if you feed from your refugium that the fish put the same toxins in that you pulled out how true is this i would like to feed this stuff to my tangs they seem to go crazy over it i would think that i should be fine feeding this as putting any food in the tank for them to eat is adding something
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 4:27pm |
The waste from the Tangs does recycle and grow more algae in the tank and Refugium. This is good. Feeding algae from the Refugium is an excellent way to give the Tangs their greens, but it's also good not to feed too much so they keep eating algae off the rocks to help the snails keep algae under control. My current tank has no Refugium so the Caulerpa grows right there and my Tang eats it.  I feed Emerald Entree and Cyclope-eze frozen and give flake food when i don't have time to feed frozen.
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 6:36pm |
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we pull out caulerpa out to feed the tangs and the stingray ends up eating all of it...its very strange.
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 7:10pm |
I only feed caulerpera from my fuge like once a week. That being the reason. I have plenty of nori that I know is clean. I'd imagine if you were feeding it daily it could become a problem. all possible :)
i feed a sheet of nori daily *it's always gone by noon* along with several small feedings of flake and frozen. Be careful on polluting your water however if your filtration cannot keep up
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 7:40pm |
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Stingrays can be real pigs. My first Stingray didn't make it because I didn't feed enough. The next one did better and now Dion has it.
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 11:58pm |
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i figured that i should be fine the only thing i worry about is i have heard it can break down and start spawning crashing a whole tank what causes it to crash anything i should know about to avoid problems will be great thanks for the help
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 3:05pm |
In my own 25+ tanks in the last 15 years, I've experienced Caulerpa
going sexual and melting away only 2 or 3 times. As long as you keep
feeding it and removing/eating it, Caulerpa will continue to grow
without interruption. By feeding, I simply mean that you continue to
feed the tank and let the caulerpa be eaten and/or harvest it regularly
from the system. However, I don't recommend that a hobbyist keep only
Caulerpa. The use of many different kinds of Macroalgae is very
important, Chaetomorpha being the most common other macroalgae. In this
thread you will find a link where we put together a list of algae that can be useful as well as some that are pests  . http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 5:36pm |
Hey Mark, do you have a hot key setup for linking to that thread? 
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