pods and culupera

Pjones · Mar 29, 2018

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 · Mar 30, 2018

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

Sincerely Lasse

najer · Mar 30, 2018

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 · Mar 30, 2018

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 · Mar 31, 2018

Very nice, love the fuge.

najer · Mar 31, 2018

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.

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Pjones · Apr 2, 2018

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

najer · Apr 3, 2018

Pjones said:
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 · May 29, 2021

Pjones said:
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