I have a large refugium with large liver rock in it and some calurpa and cheato. There is no sand or miracle mud in there yet. Should I keep the large rocks in there or chould I use small ones? I know I need enough for the calurpa to attach to but I needed to know if the large rock would act as a better filtetration. Thanks for any help.
Saltwater refugium question
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ditch the caulerpa and just use chaeto(it can just float arround) you could go either way with the rock. deep sand or mud based i prefer miracle mud but am hearing very good things about the fiji mud witch is cheaper i believe.
OK, well the only issue with floating is that it will flow out and down to my return, but I can attach it to rocks. I have never heard of calurpa fouling water, How does it fowl water? color? itrates? And do you have any link or info on the fiji mud?
OMG!!! The Fiji is $94.99 per 12 lbs. and the miracle mud is only $47.00 per 10 lbs. Hmmm, but the Fiji says its all "live", something to debate here.
Nic;571312; said:
caulerpa will not fowl your water
keep it in check if you let it grow out of control it will "crash" or go through a die off period.
caulerpa (and most algae) will give your water a yellowish tint over time but this can be fixed with using activated carbon
id go with caulerpa since it is an extremely fast growing macro algae
its using something to build itself, and that is the junk in your tank
put a baffle between your mud/algae and return... and having dealt with fuges and reefs go with chaeto if it get out of hand just cut it back chaeto works just as good if not better than caulerpa caulerpa will fowl your tank by going sexual and dying off. most lfs will buy it from you i went by pricing on mud from store near me i prefer the miracle mud