Originally Posted by
Instar
Duc, Yes you can grow macro anywhere you can get to for maintenance and where you can put a strong shop type or pc light. Some people without algae consuming inverts and fish grow macro algae in their tanks. Its a plant, complex algae really. Not just slime, but some looks like eel grass, others like little runners of 2 to 6 inch feathers, some like a corkscrew sponge. They can be red or green "plants". They can also overgrow your tank rocks, so if you grow some in the tank you have to be careful to keep it pruned. It is very good at exporting nutrients put out by the reef life when you prune it like that and it contributes to the heath of the fish. Tangs eat it, so you can feed some to the algae eating type fish if you grow it in the sump. Algae eating fish like tangs will wipe it out in your main tank. If done in the sump, you have to keep it out of the pump intake area somehow. This is why many people have refugiums attached; for pods and for these macros to grow in.
