Plants in tank?

[Oldman]

Hi. Would like to add some Caulerpa Prolifera and Halimeda Discoidea to my tank. Found some reference stuff on them, but nothing about pros/cons of putting them in a 70 gal fish/reef tank. What are the pros/cons? Should I or shouldn't I? Can someone help please

[NaCl_H2O]

My experience has been the fish (esp. Tangs) will make a quick meal of the plants/Algae and it won't have time to take hold - better off puting the plants in a refugium.

[DeletedAccount]

The prolifera is beautiful, IMO. It does tend to grasp onto the rock and spread quickly. This could be a problem and made ytour corals angry.

Halimeda does not care for heavy pruning. Also needs additional calcium.

I think that the benefits of the macro definitely outweighs the cons...

[dan]

i would say no. it will probably take over your tank. need to set up a fuge if you can.

[Ram_Puppy]

aren't all caulerpa's known for going sexual if your not careful and simply crashing the tank? I am not sure, but I decided to pretty much stay away from caulerpa and use things that are less disasterous if something should go wrong.

[brewercm]

I'd definately stay away from the caulerpa. I lost about 20 stalks of Pom Pom xenia to this stuff when it got into my main tank and I had to remove the rocks to pick it all out. It will weave itself into your rock and totally cover over your corals and eventually kill them if not constantly picked off.

[Oldman]

Based on what I found out and read here will not go with Caulerpa Prolifera in my tank (don't have fuge nor room to set one up) but do have a small halimeda that came on a rock so will keep that for now. Thank you for advice/help -- I really appreciate it - Sid