Caulerpa Grape Algae.

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I am working on trying to rid of grape caulerpa. I am open to suggestions. I have tried the manual method but I cant reach all of it. Parameters are all within soec with the exception of potassium which is low in the 380ppm range. Calcuim hardness which is high. at 1440 ppm.
 
I am working on trying to rid of grape caulerpa. I am open to suggestions. I have tried the manual method but I cant reach all of it. Parameters are all within soec with the exception of potassium which is low in the 380ppm range. Calcuim hardness which is high. at 1440 ppm.
Put tape over all your red and warm white light sources, usually stops them in thier tracks. Once the buds start turning white and begin to die off expect a minir nutrient release. Try fetting rid of as much if ut as yo uh can by hand. Search on amazon for long tweezers and forceps. Some come 22 to 46 inches long.
 
In fuge?
Are you replacing it with something else?
 
No Mr theMeat it is in the display, I’m not running a fuge. I will try to drop the red and white from my LED schedule for now.
 
No Mr theMeat it is in the display, I’m not running a fuge. I will try to drop the red and white from my LED schedule for now.
You will see the stuff start to turn translucent in a few days as you start to photosyntheticly starve it, it will have the ususl response of growing faster to try and reach the light, but it will burn though that reseve quickly and turn translucent, then very brittle. You can throw a powerhead into strong pulse mode and the stuff will just fly of your rock work.
 
No Mr theMeat it is in the display, I’m not running a fuge. I will try to drop the red and white from my LED schedule for now.
If the red and warm light thing works that would be a score. Can maybe shed some light. Pun intended
Had 6500k on my fuge for years. Grape caulerpra grew like crazy. The light went out on one side so replaced with a red blue that seems to be the **** these days. Cheato started to grow out of nowhere under the red blue. Now, a year later there is a clear line between the grape and the cheato.
6500k is more a daylight, then it is “warm”

Rabbit fish can do a good job on caulerpra. Can’t speak for all rabbit but...
Yo here feed your macro from fuge to the fish. Have a variety of tangs, angels and others. The only one that eats the macro is my magnificent fox. Especially loves the grape
 
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