Saltwater Plants and Macroalgae in your display

[aws2266]

Looking at the Plants/Macroalgae section on reefcleaners and thinking it might be cool to put a plant in my aquarium. Does anyone have photos of their aquarium with any plants or macroalgae in the display?

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[AydenLincoln]

Before my lobster tank crashed!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Macroalgae can certainly look great, but it can also be limiting of what sorts of herbivores you can add to keep pest algae in check.

 

[Diastro]

Macroalgae is great! Here's my tank, I also have a build thread on it.

I also recommend checking out @Tigahboy here and on Instagram. He has some amazing macroalgae scapes.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Macroalgae is great! Here's my tank, I also have a build thread on it.

I also recommend checking out @Tigahboy here and on Instagram. He has some amazing macroalgae scapes.

@WheatToast has a great macro tank too! https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/w...40-gallon-breeder.852228/page-9#post-11005885

 

[PensacolaReefKeeper]

Macroalgae can certainly look great, but it can also be limiting of what sorts of herbivores you can add to keep pest algae in check.

Hey Randy, what herbivores would you recommend for someone with a 40 gal breeder that thinks lawnmower blennies are ugly and would prefer not to have an urchin which eats all the coralline algae? I currently only have a urchin (outside of the basic snails/hermits). I can't get many of the herbivorous fish because my tank is too small.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Hey Randy, what herbivores would you recommend for someone with a 40 gal breeder that thinks lawnmower blennies are ugly and would prefer not to have an urchin which eats all the coralline algae? I currently only have a urchin (outside of the basic snails/hermits). I can't get many of the herbivorous fish because my tank is too small.

It's tough in smaller tanks. The grand prize winners are fish, such as a foxface (one spot foxface did a fab job in my 120 tank), but a 40 is likely too small.

I'd have to leave specific suggestions to others as I've not looked into smaller tank herbivores.