Short backstory: After my cycle, which was a year ago now, I put some sea lettuce in my DT to help w/high nitrates, then removed it when I was over it and started adding soft corals. Well a year later I have sea lettuce all over my rocks.
At first it didn’t bother me b/c it outcompetes bad stuff like GHA, and it grew in tall patches that were easily plucked off rocks and discarded. But now…
Now I’m dealing w/an explosion of a different kind of growth pattern since turning up my whites slowly over the past month. It is carpeting in patches on the rock, and I can’t have that.
My corals were loving the lighting change and have adjusted well, but b/c of the sea lettuce I’ve turned the whites down a bit and bumped up the blues. I’m also wondering what kind of creature I might be able to add that would eat this carpeting growth. Abalone? Urchin? I already have a lot of inverts in a Max Nano so if not a creature, is there a better way to remove it/keep it from getting more out of control?
At first it didn’t bother me b/c it outcompetes bad stuff like GHA, and it grew in tall patches that were easily plucked off rocks and discarded. But now…
Now I’m dealing w/an explosion of a different kind of growth pattern since turning up my whites slowly over the past month. It is carpeting in patches on the rock, and I can’t have that.
My corals were loving the lighting change and have adjusted well, but b/c of the sea lettuce I’ve turned the whites down a bit and bumped up the blues. I’m also wondering what kind of creature I might be able to add that would eat this carpeting growth. Abalone? Urchin? I already have a lot of inverts in a Max Nano so if not a creature, is there a better way to remove it/keep it from getting more out of control?