pods and culupera

[Pjones]

will pods strip the leaves off of the caulerpa in my refugium? I have a 55 gal refugium tied into a 180 gal display with an aprox 40 gal sump. loads of copopods and amphipods some leaves are clear others have just disappeared leaving the stalk. I have both caulerpa and cheato in the fuge

 

[Lasse]

Feels more (for me) like signs of some type of deficiency of macro or micro nutrients.

Sincerely Lasse

 

[najer]

A healthy refugium will fluctuate, pods will cause very little damage IMO, as above, what, if any, nutrients and additives do you use?
Got a pic?

 

[Pjones]

Thank Yall for the input I am not adding any nutrients at this time because cheato was doing good i am considering starting triton method but am kinda new to dosing schedules. You are probably right it might be a nutrient thing but it showed up kinda fast after adding culerpa and i did just get my skimmer back on line.

 

[najer]

Very nice, love the fuge.

 

[najer]

My display fuge the egg crate sheet the caulerpa is on is 12 inches square, that is how I judge my nutrients.
Currently it is not really growing so I will harvest from there so the macros in the sump fuge get higher nutrients.

DSC_0005 by sshipuk, on Flickr

 

[Pjones]

Thank You. I removed a large portion of the chaeto to see if caulerpa improves

 

[najer]

Thank You. I removed a large portion of the chaeto to see if caulerpa improves

It will be interesting to see where you are in a week or so.

 

[hikermike]

will pods strip the leaves off of the caulerpa in my refugium? I have a 55 gal refugium tied into a 180 gal display with an aprox 40 gal sump. loads of copopods and amphipods some leaves are clear others have just disappeared leaving the stalk. I have both caulerpa and cheato in the fuge

 

[hikermike]

Absolutely not. They will live on the leaves and hide there. Some fish will nibble on the leaves but the pods live on plankton