HELP, Caluerpa out of control!!!!!!!

[pbuckler]

I placed a handful of grape caluerpa in my display tank a few months ago and now it is nearing plague proportions. It is everywhere, I have to pull as much as I can off every week just so I can see my live rock and corals. Does anything eat the stuff? I cannot seem to pull enough out of the tank to keep it under control. Please help, I am desperate!

 

[chevron tang]

A tang. They love it.

 

[old hermit]

i dont know this from experience but i think tangs will eat that stuff up. maybe someone else will correct me if im wrong. hth

 

[2boyz]

oh yeah!!!! i have a naso and it ate all of my caluerpa. it wasn't eating it at first by i cut down on the frozen stuff and the rest was history(thats the caluerpa)... now i'm trying to grow more!!!!!!

 

[nm reef]

Best reason I know of NOT to put calupera in the display. The stuff can over run a system in no time. Tangs will eat it...cut back on their normal feeding and they will munch the calupera...and manually remove it as you can. My caluperas are in a refugium...from time to time some will make its way to the display...but my crabs and coral beauty make quick work of it...and I remove some about once a week to feed the yellow tang in my fish only community system....he loves the stuff!!

 

[dfimble]

I have the exact same problem! I put in a purple tang and he wont touch the stuff. Just picks around the WEED to get to the live rock.
Good luck in trying to get rid of the stuff. I have to prune mine every 3 days.

 

[cyn]

I keep mine in the return side of the back pac. I tried putting some in the show tank, but the tang ate it all. So now, I put in some out of the skimmer every week or so for the evil tang to eat.
I would pull out as much as you can and watch the rest closley. Do not let it go sexual, if it does, it will spread even more.
HTH,
cyn

 

[efrank]

Is any Tang better at keeping it under control? Someone mentioned that their purple wouldn't touch it.

 

[reeferkeeper]

The stuff doesnt have a chance around my yellow tang. I so badly want to grow some in my tank, but no luck as long as the yellow tang is around!

 

[predator]

The yellow tand or the yellow eyed tang. Either will more than likely knock fire out of it. I have to trim my refugium at least once a month do some culerpa. I have several diffrent kinds and all will take over if you let it.