how to sustain Caulerpa green macro algae

[lionfish]

Hi guys ! what a great forum this is...apologies for not writing in Danish. I can speak and understand Danish fluently but my writing skills are not good. But pl feel free to reply in Danish...I am new here and have Rio 125 set up as a saltwater (from May 15). I have used some Caulerpa green macro algae from start which grew pretty well but now it begins to disintegrate and fade in colour ie light green to white ! Could someone please tell me what should I do to save it ? Tusind tak ! mv Kaustuv

[charlie saltvand]

Hejsa og velkommen til.
Jeg er selv nu og ikke ekspert! But.....as i know it. Caulerpa algees seems to, when reaching a specific age, "melt down" as a normal behavior in their life circle!!!!!! This can lead to a massive rise in No3 = nitrate, and Po4 = phospate.... so my advice to you is to get it out of the tank before its to late.

Greetings and welcome to this forum
Charlie

[kanstrup]

Ive been told that you have to harvest them along the way as they grow. Så that you only have "young leaves".

[Meller]

Harvest all the white leafs, and actually just take a lot of leafs, they will grow back on I think te reason is the plant have use all the NO3
The algae is hard to get rid of, even when you have taking all visible signs of it out, it will come back that is my experienc.

Good luck!

[mchr]

Mange bruger netop alger for at fjerne næring fra vandet, ved at lade dem gro og så høste dem, og lade dem gro osv osv.
Jeg havde dem et enkelt sted i mit akvarie med intern sump da jeg startede, man skal have planter sagde ferskvandserfaringen, men de overtog hurtigt hele akvariet, så pas på med at have dem i displayakvariet

[Carsten]

Harvest all the white leafs, and actually just take a lot of leafs, they will grow back on I think te reason is the plant have use all the NO3
The algae is hard to get rid of, even when you have taking all visible signs of it out, it will come back that is my experienc.

Good luck!

Så simpelt er det nu desværre ikke.
Læste et sted på nettet for en del år siden, at inden Caulerpa går i ukønnet formering, danner der sig nogle små spidser(mener jeg det var) på stænglen. Det var tegn på at den del af algen var klar til den ukønnede formering. Det var derfor vigtigt hele tiden at høste det ældste Caulerpa

[nbd]

De er svære at styre i akvariet. Deres udløbere hæfter i de levende sten og de kan være svære at trække fri. Ofte knækker stænglen, og så starter en ny plante ud fra rodstænglen. Prøv at begrænse algen til 1 sten, og fjern ALLE udløbere som ellers breder sig.