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06-22-2003, 12:55 AM
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What eats grape caulerpa?
Bloody stuff is getting out of control. I can't seem to keep up with it anymore. Any suggestions?
Christy 
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06-22-2003, 01:34 AM
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good to see I am not alone in this one.. I am thinking of trying a rabbit fish or two. or a pressure washer
 Steve
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06-22-2003, 02:43 AM
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 I'm thinking of picking up a yellow tang because J&L doesn't have any rabbitfish in while I was there today. I will just pick one up on my way home tommorow. Hope it works *cross fingers* because I see some strands of caulerpa comming back even after scrubbing all the rocks two weeks ago!  Quote:
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06-22-2003, 03:01 AM
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Re: What eats grape caulerpa?
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 So, I got serious. Got a few buckets full of changewater, pulled each rock out and took the tweezers to the stuff. Its roots were embedded everywhere, but tweezing EACH little bit of it off worked. Rock that was cleaned went into buckets until the whole 100 lbs of LR were cleaned. Took two days to get all the caulerpa off the rock, but had that rock for two years afterward and no caulerpa ever grew back 
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06-22-2003, 06:02 PM
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If you would want to ship some I would like to add some to my tank, I had some before but my yellow tang ate it all in just one week!!
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06-23-2003, 12:48 PM
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I wish I could keep the stuff in my tank. Whenever I add some calupera, it's gone is a few days!!
I try to hide it from him...but he always gets it! - --On the bright side, he looks very healthy. -I'll have to get my refugia setup so I can keep a supply of that stuff around. Michael
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06-24-2003, 01:01 AM
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I've had both a foxface and naso tang eat grape caulerpa. I had so much of the stuff I *almost* packed it in and gave up on reefing. These fish definitely keep it under control. I know the grape caulerpa is still there, but it never gets a chance to grow. I have a feeling that if my foxface ever died the caulerpa would come back.
Good luck!
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08-26-2003, 07:44 AM
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rampant caulerpa
Hey I had grape caulerpa going nuts. I just spent the whole day taking each rock out and with tweezers in hand pull every stinkin root out. I hope that does it. One day I'll have a bigger tank and I'll have the luxury off adding a tang or foxface to deal with the menacing stuff. I've never seen anything grow so fast.
George
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