Red Gracilaria

i saw this on reef cleaners and liked it. i want a leaf fish so i thought that this would be cool for him to hide in and promote color shanges to red. i havent heard much about this algaes filtering capabilitys or anything about it really. i am just wondering would it help with water chemistry or should i get caulerpa (not as pretty) instead?

 

bump anyone know anything?

 

It's beautiful, as far as algae goes. I remember having a problem keeping it, probably from a lack of nutrients. When it started to die it broke apart and there were a thousand little pieces everywhere. It was kind of annoying but as long as you have nutrients in your tank you should be fine.

 

ok, so since its gonna be a while before i get my leaf fish, could i feed the tank flake food but not have a fish in there? would that give it enough nutrients?

 

Has the tank cycled yet?

 

yea its been up since october.

 

Does anyone plant this in there main tank? Im thinking of gluing a piece to a rock and setting it up in the display tank. I like the look of it.

 

so you have it? if so hows it doing. from the looks of it reefcleaners says that it can be glued and tied to a rock. (im pretty sure thats what it said)

 

how long have you had it and do you think it does good filtering the water?

 

this is my second shipment of it. The first one was growing great, but got all tangled up in my cheato so I had to toss it out with the cheato. I cant say for its filtering capability as I have cheato also, and its amazing.