[wtd] Macro algaes

leslie hempel

leslie hempel

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Looking for caulerpa taxifolia specifically, but any macro algae will be appreciated if you have some to spare.

I'm based in east london but I can get my courier to collect.

Please contact me should you have spare

Les

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Why not collect C. filiformis? You should have tons in your area

But i do have C. serrulata and the one in your bottom pic (but you really dont want that one)
 
459b said:
Why not collect C. filiformis? You should have tons in your area

But i do have C. serrulata and the one in your bottom pic (but you really dont want that one)
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All forms pretty scarce down here and too risky to obtain from wild sorces as temps are low. Woyld prefre tank grown. Building a macro algae biotope I'm pretty keen for any rite now. Just to get the system absorbing nutrients.

I've had to create a nutrient rich portion to the tank to feed the sps/Los side as I'm stripping nutrients properly but the lack of circulation causes mulm and dirt build up at the bottom.

I recently caught a pipefish and I just want to get him settled as he was an unexpected find.usually I wouldn't take the fish but my son has been idolising a skeleton we have of one for the past nine months and this really sparked his interest in marines again so I'm trying to put the biotope together pretty quickly.
 
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I think Ivan has a lot of the top fern type Caulerpa which I am sure he will part with if you ask him...Shaun at Finny also has the bottom one growing in abundance. I believe @Hails has quite a few macro algaes too and is sending some frags this side soon.

If you manage to get some different types think of me...I am also looking at setting up a macro algae tank plumbed to my 4ft once I move...for me its Garden Eels not pipe fish...although they would also do well in a tank like that. :)
 
Kunhardt said:
I think Ivan has a lot of the top fern type Caulerpa which I am sure he will part with if you ask him...Shaun at Finny also has the bottom one growing in abundance. I believe @Hails has quite a few macro algaes too and is sending some frags this side soon.

If you manage to get some different types think of me...I am also looking at setting up a macro algae tank plumbed to my 4ft once I move...for me its Garden Eels not pipe fish...although they would also do well in a tank like that. :)
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Would love garden eels saw them in the AF tank in Poland. One side of the substrate in the tank was just deeper with like 6 eels. Think I may follow suite.

Will think of you aswell when I get.
 
Hey Les I have the spade type if you still needing.
 
I haven't had much luck with the fern or chaeto both don'the take for some reason.
 
I grow it in my sump - worked really well on top of a dsb in my last Tank.
This Tank it’s not growing as fast .
Great food for the fish.

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