hippo tang and macroalgae

[jtf74]

This very interesting macroalgae left of the nem just showed up in my display a few months back from a frag I added and it caused me to start noticing macroalgae, which is something I never paid attention to outside of the chaeto or caulerpa in my sump. So I bought 7 different types recently including 4 red gracilaria types , a halimeda, and codium. Anyone had a hippo tang that did not eat some of these? Would love to put some in my display. For now I'm keeping the algae in a separate tank and will add some of the cuttings after it has grown a bit to see what the hippo will or won't eat.

 

[tzabor10]

Maybe you could grow them in a refugium and set some out for eating.

 

[jtf74]

Maybe you could grow them in a refugium and set some out for eating.

Not doing a refugium right now maybe later but its going in my 35 gallon cube/ fallow coral qt tank and cuttings will go in display and what gets eaten gets eaten, So far it doesn't like botryocladia.

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[Weaverjay101]

My hippo tang only takes the occasional nibble at caulerpa mexicana. It grows faster than what the tang eats.