i know that coraline is great for your setup.that it shows great chemistry in your tank and to scrape off what you dont want so you can see inside but how can you control it a little.i scrape it off and within 2 days im loaded up again.i scrape it and then there it is again.i just would like to slow the growth if i could not get rid of it.
Hi duke62 ;-)
From your description it looks to be a case in which the use of the services of a sea urchin are of good approach since sea urchins feed on coralline algae, however many of them also show oportunistic feeding behavior, which means that they start at one end of a rock, eat the coralline algae and don't bother to stop eating because there is a
pocillopora or
acropora, or another coral in the way, they simply "munch" it to leaving a white trail of coral skeleton devoid of live tissue just where they passed. This said some species are more prone to do that than others and it is a risk, still, since you so much food source for one urchin why not have a go with
Mespilia globulus (Globular sea urchin or Blue Tuxedo urchin) as it is small, beautiful, hardy, and peaceful or if you have room to accommodate it, why not a
Salmacis bicolor such as the one it looks like LeslieS has and which I mistakenly identified as for another species in this thread
Reef venomous-dangerous critters (have look
here and here
Tank Girl (
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We look forward to read more about the outcome of this thread as it holds important information for all of us.
Cheers
Pedro Nuno ;-)
