Sorry about double reply. I’m tiredNot with a tang. My caulerpa was growing nicely until my purple tang was added. No more caulerpa
the tang will eat the caulerpa faster than it grows. Ask me how I know.
Is it the same type for sure? My LfS reassured me when I got it that this stuff is on par with Chaeto or maybe even a bit better at nutrient absorption.Wish I had that growth! Mine is slow to grow. Really not much growth at all. My Pom Pom, Gracillaria, and caulerpa grow daily though. It’s by far the prettiest macro I have though! Would love to have a fuge full.Honestly I would say pom pom is nice but I LOVE my halymenia stipitata ( sometimes called orange galaxy or atomic broccoli). Just posted about it but it is a stunning addition to the DT, and you can throw some in the fuge as well to grow fast. This stuff grows so quickly by the time the urchin gets it you have plenty more.. its a built in harvesting mechanism! unless you have a tuxedo like mine and it prefers to take its snack with it as a disguise... and forgets to eat it so it grows like a 70's fro!
this was one month ago.....
this is this morning. I fight nutrients bottoming out in my nano specifically because of this, but its pretty enough that I just don't care... and this is what it looks like in my 90g. The tangs mostly leave it alone... from time to time my pincushion might dislodge it when it finds a clump, or on even rarer occasion a mexican turbo finds it and starts munching, but mostly everything leaves it alone and it just grows and soaks up nutrients like it's its job...
Yep same. I have 4 small pieces of it. It’s grown but nothing compared to everything else.
That's beautiful!This is the atomic broccoli. Tangs and snails don’t really eat it. The will eat red ogo and red gracillaria.
It looks amazing in really blue lighting. In white it looses its sparkling but grows faster.
I’ll try and take pictures tonight to show difference. My Pom Pom chamber is straight white/full spectrum light. It looks bland there. My 20L remote fuge has some blue. It’s night and day difference.
Full blue. Literally glows red kind of trippy!
Which Caulerpa variety/spp is toxic?
So your tangs won't even look at the atomic broccoli? I was under the impression that they can eat this type of macro. Good to hear this and awesome growth rate you haveHonestly I would say pom pom is nice but I LOVE my halymenia stipitata ( sometimes called orange galaxy or atomic broccoli). Just posted about it but it is a stunning addition to the DT, and you can throw some in the fuge as well to grow fast. This stuff grows so quickly by the time the urchin gets it you have plenty more.. its a built in harvesting mechanism! unless you have a tuxedo like mine and it prefers to take its snack with it as a disguise... and forgets to eat it so it grows like a 70's fro!
this was one month ago.....
this is this morning. I fight nutrients bottoming out in my nano specifically because of this, but its pretty enough that I just don't care... and this is what it looks like in my 90g. The tangs mostly leave it alone... from time to time my pincushion might dislodge it when it finds a clump, or on even rarer occasion a mexican turbo finds it and starts munching, but mostly everything leaves it alone and it just grows and soaks up nutrients like it's its job...
