Suggestions for edible macro grown in refugium

[smellfishy]

I am curious to know what types of macro anyone grows in their refugium that their fish happily consume. Also pros and cons of what your growing.

 

[Subsea]

Depends on the fish as to if they are “happy”. Welcome to the hobby / addiction.

Russ Kronwetter at live_plants.com has a complete index of macro descriptions & info.
https://www.marineplantbook.com/

At that link, go to red macro. Any of the Halymenia or Gracilaria would be good options.

 

[Mr.Asbury]

Following along

 

[cristata.reef]

Ulva is a good one too

 

[Tajaba]

Ulva is a good one too

Honestly my tangs don't really like the ulva. But they do love the Caulerpa Lentillifera and everything eats Botryocladia, which I think is why it is very hard to grow in a tank with any fish. My blennies are relentless in eating it.

 

[Subsea]

Honestly my tangs don't really like the ulva. But they do love the Caulerpa Lentillifera and everything eats Botryocladia, which I think is why it is very hard to grow in a tank with any fish. My blennies are relentless in eating it.

Caulerpa Lentillifera, aka Sea Grapes, is excellent human cuisine. It is great chilled for crispness then sprinkled with soy sauce & lime juice. It goes with margarita as well. Remember to put salt on the rim.

 

[Tajaba]

Caulerpa Lentillifera, aka Sea Grapes, is excellent human cuisine. It is great chilled for crispness then sprinkled with soy sauce & lime juice. It goes with margarita as well. Remember to put salt on the rim.

It is indeed. That was one of the reasons I started growing it in my tank. Sellable byproduct from a reef tank is always awesome. However I wouldn't say its "excellent" Honestly If I could just get my hands on some Mokuto........now THAT would be excellent human cuisine.

 

[Subsea]

@smellfishy

Fish or like people when it comes to eating. Sometimes they are finicky, sometimes they are not.

Ulva requires special attention because of its tendency to clog up pump intakes.

Bortacladia grows slow.

Gracilaria Parvispora, aka Red Ogo, is a good candidate. Everybody eats it, including people. Expect
4-6 fold increase each month.

 

[TexasTodd]

X2 Gracilaria Parvispora, aka Red Ogo

 

[Subsea]

It is indeed. That was one of the reasons I started growing it in my tank. Sellable byproduct from a reef tank is always awesome. However I wouldn't say its "excellent" Honestly If I could just get my hands on some Mokuto........now THAT would be excellent human cuisine.

Not being familiar with seaweed cuisine in your part of the word, I don’t know what Mokuto is.

When I goggled Mokuto, I got Prince of Baekje, one of the three kingdoms of Korea. Please educate me as I enjoy eating seaweed. If I can find the right combination of seaweed to remove nutrients from intensive shrimp aquaculture, I will grow and sell two food crops as a zero discharge mariculture facility. At present, I have 10,000G in a greenhouse available for mariculture. Due to expensive heating and cooling cost to grow reef live rock, I shut operations down in the greenhouse. I am experimenting with live food for marine predators in a 1000G system consisting of six 150G Rubbermade tanks buried in the ground. Green mollies & ghost shrimp are mixed in with seaweed culture. These inhabitants do not require strict control of temperature to flourish. Temperature control in summer is easy using evaporative cooling. Temperature control in winter uses geothermal in two ways: tanks buried in ground and ground water at 78 degrees circulates thru 1000’ of 1/2” poly hose before discharging into surface pond.

http://www.aquacultureranch.com/home

 

[madweazl]

Our yellow tang eats chaeto, actually, it pretty much eats anything LOL.

 

[Subsea]

Our yellow tang eats chaeto, actually, it pretty much eats anything LOL.

A friend feeds his tanks with bananas. Tangs eat skin and fruit.

 

[Tajaba]

Not being familiar with seaweed cuisine in your part of the word, I don’t know what Mokuto is.

When I goggled Mokuto, I got Prince of Baekje, one of the three kingdoms of Korea. Please educate me as I enjoy eating seaweed. If I can find the right combination of seaweed to remove nutrients from intensive shrimp aquaculture, I will grow and sell two food crops as a zero discharge mariculture facility. At present, I have 10,000G in a greenhouse available for mariculture. Due to expensive heating and cooling cost to grow reef live rock, I shut operations down in the greenhouse. I am experimenting with live food for marine predators in a 1000G system consisting of six 150G Rubbermade tanks buried in the ground. Green mollies & ghost shrimp are mixed in with seaweed culture. These inhabitants do not require strict control of temperature to flourish. Temperature control in summer is easy using evaporative cooling. Temperature control in winter uses geothermal in two ways: tanks buried in ground and ground water at 78 degrees circulates thru 1000’ of 1/2” poly hose before discharging into surface pond.

http://www.aquacultureranch.com/home

Hi, my bad, I gotten the names mixed up. Its Mozuku from okinawa.