Plants ARGHHHH!

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  1. david

    david Peppermint Shrimp

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    O.K. what do you guys all do with the different stains of plants growing in your tanks? I have a form of culurpa with these little balls on it it grows very fast and has to be pruned almost weekly! Also there is another plant with small viney stalks that put down roots every half inch or so and when you try to pull them up they break and any little pieces left will start new little plants ARGHHHHH! I hate these little plants Do you really just have to prune prune prune forever or is there something to confine there growth?
    Any answers will be enthusiastically appreciated!
    Thank you all
    D.
     
    david, Mar 22, 2004
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  2. Speedy

    Speedy Fire Shrimp

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    Please post up pics if available, to help ID. We'll figure something out.
     
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  3. Land_Fish

    Land_Fish Guest

    Get a tang or a lawn mower blennie
     
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  4. david

    david Peppermint Shrimp

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    What would be a good tang to put in a 55 gal. tank and that would eat these plants back some?
     
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  5. szogun

    szogun Feather Duster

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    Yellow tang works for me
     
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  6. thumper_s98343

    thumper_s98343 Plankton

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    if you want to get some of those plants or cutings out of your way let me know
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  7. NUGIO

    NUGIO Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    You got what sounds like grape calp.
    Sounds like a adding something to eat the algae is treating a symptom only.Do you have a fuge? For nutrient export.  Are you perhaps over feeding?
     
    NUGIO, Mar 23, 2004
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