That's neat. Any chance you could get some white light pics of it?This tank has been running for almost 2 years and all of the sudden this macro algae starts growing off this rock. It has vines that grow out and once it finds a new surface it starts sprouting little round leaves. Let me know what you think it is and if I should put it in my sump with my chaeto.
Thanks, and Happy Reefing!
If this is Caulerpa chemnitzia or the var. turbinata then i hope you got a fish that eats it like a foxface or tang. That stuff will take over your tank . Looks a lot like it but hard to tell for sure under blues.This tank has been running for almost 2 years and all of the sudden this macro algae starts growing off this rock. It has vines that grow out and once it finds a new surface it starts sprouting little round leaves. Let me know what you think it is and if I should put it in my sump with my chaeto.
Thanks, and Happy Reefing!
I think you nailed it. I might just go get me a bristle tooth tang here soon. I'm not sure if they will eat it though. It's only a 75gal so I'm kind of limited on what tangs i can put in.
Bristletooth will not touch this. In my first tank I had the exact same algae coming in with the live rock. After manual removal did not work I got a bristletooth coz tank was only 90 gal and he did not eat it. Now in my 200 gal I grow it in my fuge and feed it back to my foxface, purple tang and genicanthus angels. Those 4 fish don't leave a trace of it.
Yeah, from what I've heard and been reading lately, it seems at least some bristletooth (Ctenochaetus) tangs are detritivores rather than actually herbivores, so I wouldn't expect one to go for a macroalgae like this:
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My experience too, the bristletooth loved microalgea but never touched macro.Yeah, from what I've heard and been reading lately, it seems at least some bristletooth (Ctenochaetus) tangs are detritivores rather than actually herbivores, so I wouldn't expect one to go for a macroalgae like this:
Clarifying functional roles: algal removal by the surgeonfishes Ctenochaetus striatus and Acanthurus nigrofuscus - Coral Reefs
The lined bristletooth, Ctenochaetus striatus, and the brown surgeonfish, Acanthurus nigrofuscus, are among the most abundant surgeonfishes on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Yet, the functional role of these species has been the focus of an ongoing debate lasting at least six decades. Specifically...
