I need help - bank my corals.

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Jeff

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I'm really frustrated. I can't seem to beat this caleurpa thing. I've got a small tank, 18 gallons. Fortunately, most of all my corals haven't been affected because they're all small frags that are mobile. There are some a couple rocks that have zoas or others attached that do have 'the weed' invading it.

What I basically need to do is have someone take a few of the nicest frags that I want to keep and sell off the rest. Then I need to dry out and then cook the rock until I'm ready to set up the next tank.

Would anyone with a well established system and experience be willing help out? Once I get someone to take the ones I want to keep, I'll frag and sell everything else.
 
can't you get a tiny tang temporarily and have it eat the caulerpa?

well, if you want to store them, my tank is zoa specific so you can "borrow" it.
 
Hi,

If you get a critter to eat it and keep it at bay, it will come back if something happens to said critter. :lol: The easiest fix is to find some cheap rock for sale here($3/lb), make sure it's cured then, yank out the infested rock, reaquascape with the new rock, then trade the infested rock in for store credit somewhere. :wink:

Cheers,
 
I used a Scribbled Rabbitfish (Siganus doliatus) to clear it out of a 20 long. Tank looked like a planted tank before I read somewhere these would eat the grape stuff.

I pulled out all I could, then let the fish eat the rest. They are like goats, they scrape the rock until there was just nothing left to grow back.

I didn't feed the tank too much so it was forced to eat what it could find.

Anyway, worked for me - I'd loan him to you (if I could even catch it out of the tank it's in now), but it's over 7" long and would have a heck of a time moving around in your 18 (they jump out of the tank when cramped or it's Tuesday or ............ ).
 
@FranktheTank wrote:
[I]@bimmerzs wrote:[/I][quote="Hi said:
Yea - nice advice. So someone else can deal with the infested rock. :shock:"]

No......so the store can toss it in their liverock vat. A lot of lfs's have several vat's of LR, some have problematic rock "cooking" to rid it of unwanted stuff. Do you really think stores get in "perfect" rock. :roll: It's a 18g tank, how much rock do you think is in there.
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pfft, infested with caulerpa? I bet my foxface and purple tang could take it out in an hour. I used to take handfuls and just pluck it out of the fuge and watch the two grab opposite ends and eat it quickly. Of course only have chaeto now.

If you need someone to bank, I can help I'm just kind of far away.
 
All these suggestions are really good. Personally, I'd love to put a critter in there that would wipe it all out and then not starve once it's gone.

With such a small tank right now I don't know how feasible that is. I'm looking into algae eating blennies, (rockskippers, lawnmowers, Starry/Snowflake), I like the idea but I don't want to get one and then find out all it wants is hair algae and won't touch the caleurpa.

If I could find a tiny Desjardini tang that cost next to nothing I'd do that too. I know Bill had some inexpensive Yellow tangs at one point but I haven't been up there since the tank tour.

Also, with the 'spend NO money' mandate, it'd be hard to hide a fish from my wife.
 
@DheereCrossing wrote:
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I hear that - I almost got divorced this past weekend because I added a zoo rock with out permission. That was the final straw because the week before I added 4 very little chromis in addition to the one I already had. She asked me where they came from, and I replied we must have had babies! She found no humor at all in it.

I believe the tank will be our undoing.
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My prop tank was flat out infested with grape, feather, and at least one other type of caulerpa as well as gracillaria. I put a small Foxface in and he wiped it all out within a few weeks.
 
@Reefmike wrote:
My prop tank was flat out infested with grape said:
Ooooh I like that! I'm going to look into some more ideas along that line - it may not be a smart finacial move on my part but it may save some sanity.
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