Dissolving calurpa

[bobnicaragua]

I put some cheato and caulerpa in my sump a couple months ago. The cheato dissolved, but the caulerpa grew.

This week it got little orange buds on the main piece and it got soft and started falling apart. So I threw that piece out. The pic is of what is left.

Running 24 hr tunze refugium light
Moonshiners sps tank, parameters are good.

 

[Doctorgori]

Could be anything, but from my experience I’ve never got that mix to last. Even if it goes a while seems one or the other dominates. Just one sample

 

[bobnicaragua]

The cheato wasted away immediately, a couple months ago. It's the caulerpa that wasted away this week. The pic is what is left of the caulerpa.

 

[dvgyfresh]

What’s the nitrate / phos reading? I had to dose flucanzole to get rid of caulerpa lol maybe it’s a blessing in disguise to get some chaeto

 

[Grimmj]

Get rid of that Caulerpa I had some sneak up to the DT and get into the rock work. After fighting and trying manual removal I gave into the reeflux. I just use chaeto now. Been growing great under a cheap aquatop light in the sump.