Calerpa eaters

Does anyone know if the little hermits will eat calerpa?

 

Hi Mike

I used to have a load of Calerpa the fern type in my FOWLR, which also had a few blue legged hermits in, and I never noticed them eating that to be honest

I did have a sailfin in there at one time also but it only ever ate the very new green leaves and ignored the older dark green ones

Steve

 

my velvet damsel loves calerpura(grape/feather). but, its a very aggresive fish(mean as a snake)and enjoys bullying new comers that are smaller than it.
also it enjoys making sand storms with its tail(looking for food). i feed it what i pull out of fuge.

 

my purple tang, blue tang and clown tang eat all types of cualerpa and cheato

 

amhipods seem to like the feather variety but its not the easiest to just aquire them

 

A foxface rabbitfish will just devour it. From experience I have seen my bi color rabbit clean a 90 gallon tank in two days, from a major outbreak to nothing.

 

my tangs are pretty good at keeping it in check but if you want crabs, i really dont know of anything that would take care of them maybe an emerald crab? i know there grazers?

 

Amphipods crawl on mine in the fuge, but I've never seen them eat it. My hermits don't eat it either.

 

i have a fox face rabbit fish and it destroys the stuff i had an intank fuge with caulpera growing in it and it was coming out the holes. I added in a foxface to take care of GHA in the tank and the next day all the caulpera was gone that was growing out of the fuge. ( it also ate the GHA)

 

Old thread but Ill join in

Sally Lightfoot crabs do eat grape calerpa - seen them clean up a frag plug with it on recently

Steve