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How much live rock do you have? While I am sure they will eat the lettuce I am not sure how much nutrition they are getting. The point of my thread was providing algae on live rock for grazing which they constantly to that end adding enough lettuce to provide a constant food source is...

Ok just Google homemade saltwater fish carnivore food. there are many recieps Latticed Butterflies are carnivores no matter what you read about them picking at filamentous algae. They are active grazers I believe their small elongated mouths make it possible to pick at small openings on a coral...

I personally don’t like leaving any dead food in my tank for any length of time. I don’t like feeding lettuce IMO it’s just not something they eat in the wild. I supplement what they get from my live rock with a good herbivore food. And nori on a veggie clip

do you or have you made your own food

I believe there are a lot of good books on the resurrection of live rock I personally would start there. Actually there will most likely be a lot of good general info

I am sure you already know this but for other hobbyists wanting to get a Latticed Butterfly most if not all of my hobbyist friends make a past out of food for their butterflies and press it into the rockwork for them to graze on

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Quote: new in fact i have not even set up my salt tank yet. you are way ahead of the game. learn and then move forward

Quote: and different corals i dont want eaten its not the corals its the fish you have to worry about

your most welcome

Quote: . I would say that the average Joe (no offense Joe) would want to use a more traditional method. non taken i am about as average a hobbyist as there is

Quote: Originally Posted by spanko Quote: Originally Posted by florida joe While i cannot speak for Santamonica. My feeling is that if you do not have a large enough scrubber to cultivate enough algae to out compete the hair algae in your tank for nutrients it will not electively remove them...

110 and about 10 years but it has undergone many changes

not if you know what you are doing

Quote: Originally Posted by Al&Burke Quote: Originally Posted by florida joe Here you go my friend you can still see some of the red on the edge of his fins Thanks Joe that's the one, your other shot was better my friend - but I'll take this one. Have you ever bred these guys? No and not that...

Power head turn over IMO 15-20 times per hour but more important is movement in all areas of your tank. and one needs to understand there is a difference between flow and movement oh and i LOVE your rock work

thanks but they grow so s l o w

from the web [list type=decimal] Gently rinse each piece thoroughly in saltwater. Place the pieces in a new 30-gallon plastic container. Immerse the rock in freshly mixed saltwater with a specific gravity between 1.023 and 1.025. Use a heater to keep the water temperature between 72-78ºF...

While i cannot speak for Santamonica. My feeling is that if you do not have a large enough scrubber to cultivate enough algae to out compete the hair algae in your tank for nutrients it will not electively remove them from your DT. Caulerpa in my opinion will out compete any other type of algae...

I think I need to explain my feeling about tangs live rock and grazing. First let me say if you have green hair algae in your tank IMO you need to remove it ALL by any means necessary. Tangs will not eat it. Tangs will eat most any other filamentous algae and that is a good thing. We need not...