What would you do?

[Still Learning]

I second or third or something the tang or rabbitfish idea.

[Gilbert]

my blue and yellow tang dont let me have ANY algae growing in my DT

[Kristy]

Re: the cooking of rocks idea...
This should definitely work to finally get rid of all last traces of the caulerpa and you will get your rocks back (still live) in the end.

We bought our 75g from another member and the live rocks had a number of different kinds of macroalgae growing on them, some more desireable than others. We pulled off what we wanted to cultivate and threw all the rocks in a tub in the garage with powerheads on them for six weeks.

For best results, scrub the rocks once a week and rinse in saltwater. But we were lazy and just ignored ours for six weeks, stirred them around once or twice during that time, and we have nice clean rocks as a result.

This only works if there is nothing else growing on that rock that you are trying to salvage (corals, etc.)

[Europhyllia]

Kristy that sounds like a plan. That's what I'll do. Thanks

[allan]

I don't understand your aversion to tangs. I just got a yellow the other day (a few tense moments with the yellow rim, but they're buds now) and he's constantly on the prowl for green stuff.

The hippo, naso, and yellow rim (to include the yellow) eats the grape culerpra... and I did have a foxface that really LOVED grape, but he also liked the zoas.

Not sure if my starry blenny would eat grape, but he's always sponging off the algae from my glass... and fat for it too.

[Europhyllia]

I just was so glad when Mr Cob adopted Moby, my tang, because the dynamics in my tank changed so much in those 10 days that I had Moby.
The clowns which I have had for nearly 5 years now abandoned their fuzzy mushroom and just hovered on top beside the overflow. Three or 4 times one of them actually jumped into the overflow. Something they had never done before or after.
One time the male clown actually traveled all the way down into the sump.
I still had a wet dry back then and was lucky to find him laying on his side on the floss, water splashing on him and still ALIVE.
As soon as Moby was gone they went back to spawning, living now in the duncans and being happy.
When my 30g went south in the spring of last year I would have just gotten rid of all of it had it not been for that pair of clowns.
I got the 125g so the clowns could have a nice retirement in it - not be afraid and suicidal for the rest of their lives.
I just like it when everybody can do their spawning thing without a new neighbor flashing a scalpel and freaking everybody out...

[Kristy]

I just like it when everybody can do their spawning thing without a new neighbor flashing a scalpel and freaking everybody out...

Are we discussing rural Tennessee crime rates again?

[Europhyllia]

ROFLMA

We'll have to ask justahobby to see if there's tangs in rural TN ;)