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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : No, not that I would blame on...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=96">jfinch</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;27&nbsp;2004 at 10:31pm<br /><br /><P>No, not that I would blame on the algae.</P>]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : Jon - Did you lose any corals...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=2">Guests</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;27&nbsp;2004 at 10:28pm<br /><br />Jon - Did you lose any corals or fish?]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : If marine photosyntheisis is the...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=466">jglover</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;27&nbsp;2004 at 2:18pm<br /><br />If marine photosyntheisis is the same as&nbsp;above water photo.&nbsp; The dark reaction to photosynthesis is not a "dark" reaction (meaning is doesn't need to be dark). &nbsp;it just doesn't need light to work.&nbsp; They call it dark because the&nbsp;side that requires light is called the light stage.&nbsp; 24/7 Lighting works great on plants does anyone have any evidence of it releasing toxic&nbsp;chemicals?&nbsp; cpearce keep up the good work.&nbsp; Experimentation is the key.]]>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : In my case the water got cloudy...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=96">jfinch</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;27&nbsp;2004 at 1:13pm<br /><br />In my case the water got cloudy for a day or so followed about a week later by cyano (mainly in low flow areas of sump)&nbsp;followed about a month later by hair algae (in overflows and sump).]]>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : What happens to your main tank...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=2">Guests</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;27&nbsp;2004 at 12:27pm<br /><br />What happens to your main tank when the caulerpa goes sexual and what did you do about it?<br /><br />I run my fuge with 24hr lighting and I haven't had any problems, but my fuge has only been up since February.  I only have C. racemosa (grape) in mine because it smothers out the other algaes that I have put in there.]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : I&amp;#039;ve had caulerpa racemosa...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=96">jfinch</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;27&nbsp;2004 at 7:55am<br /><br /><P>I've had caulerpa racemosa peltada dissolve away twice on me.&nbsp; The only commonality between the two cases, that I can see, is lack of nutrient input.&nbsp; In both cases the flow through my refugium was greatly reduced due to snails plugging the line to the refugium.&nbsp; In both cases the algae dissolved within hours (I don't really know how long the water flow was reduced before the event, I just know that I left the house for just&nbsp;a few hours and came back to a mess).&nbsp; In the first case the algae was crowded but in the second it was not.&nbsp; Since that time I've read many times that C. racemosa peltada is very prone to doing this... much more so then C. racemosa (grape) or even the other Caulerpas.</P><P>Mike Peletta subscribes to the notion that 24hr lighting is, at least partly, the reason why his macro's don't do this.&nbsp; His reasoning has to do with the photosynthisis "dark reactions" not occuring which is where/when caulerpa's release toxic compounds and go into the reproductive cycle...&nbsp; But I don't know.</P>]]>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : Sorry, cpearce, but space is not...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=4">Mark Peterson</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;27&nbsp;2004 at 7:36am<br /><br />Sorry, cpearce, but space is not the issue.<br /><br />I can point out several and even show you one packed Refugium where Caulerpa keeps on growing where the light reaches it. Perhaps that is what you were refering to; when the light cannot reach the Caulerpa under the top thick mat it starts to die off underneath, but that's not the same as "going sexual". When it goes sexual, 99-100% of it dissolves in a day!]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : From what I&amp;#039;ve read the reason...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=2">Guests</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;26&nbsp;2004 at 10:41pm<br /><br /><P>From what I've read the reason why caulerpa goes sexual is not because it runs out of nutrients, but because it runs out of space.</P><P><table width="99%"><tr><td class="BBquote"><img src="forum_images/quote_box.png" title="Originally posted by Mark Peterson" alt="Originally posted by Mark Peterson" style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" /> <strong>Mark Peterson wrote:</strong><br /><br /><BR>Yeah, Caulerpa has problems when nutrients are low, which can happen faily quickly in any tank.</td></tr></table> </P><P>If the caulerpa runs out of nutrients it would just stop growing and slowly die off.&nbsp; Which usually only happens if you don't have a DSB, add little or no food to your tank, and have a large skimmer and other filtration.&nbsp; Otherwise there is usually a constant stream of N and P.&nbsp; </P><P>So what else would other marcoalgaes take out besides N and P that caulerpa does not?</P><span style="font-size:10px"><br /><br />Edited by cpearce....</span>]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? : shaun sounds bitter in his post...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=636">jason</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;26&nbsp;2004 at 8:10pm<br /><br />shaun sounds bitter in his post i use to shop there all the time but i have learned thet the advice he gives is what works for him find what works for you and use it i love my sump.&nbsp; i also have a tank with a 15 inch sandbed (he said it would never live)&nbsp; creativety is the key to secess still in marine aquatics. jason]]>
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   <pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[?Refugium? :   Improdigal wrote:ummmm.....right...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=4">Mark Peterson</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3649<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> September&nbsp;26&nbsp;2004 at 9:52am<br /><br /><table width="99%"><tr><td class="BBquote"><img src="forum_images/quote_box.png" title="Originally posted by Improdigal" alt="Originally posted by Improdigal" style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" /> <strong>Improdigal wrote:</strong><br /><br />ummmm.....right Mark? (here I am talking like I know what I'm talking about, I just learned all this myself)</td></tr></table> me too. <img border="0" src="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0"> <br /><br />Yeah, Caulerpa has problems when nutrients are low, which can happen faily quickly in any tank. That's why we seem to be finding success with a variety of macros in the Refugium. Here's the algae in my system, listed by approximate quantity(sorry, few scientific names):<br /><br />1. 5 Mangroves<br />2. Chaetomorpha<br />3. Halimeda<br />4. the soft brown/green algae that grows on the rocks and glass each day in the bright sun and is eaten every night by Snails, Grammerus (Amphipods) and Copepods<br />5. Gracilaria<br />6. Blade Caulerpa<br />7. Sea Brush<br />8. Brown Dictyota<br />9. Blue Dictyota<br />10. Valonia<br />11. Large Grape Caulerpa<br />12. some kind of red bubble algae<br />13. Cyanobacteria<br />14. regular grape caulerpa<br />15. the red cottony algae<br />16. some kind of Sea Grass from California<br />17. some kind of leafy algae from California<br />18. some kind of thick branching algae,  <img border="0" src="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/smileys/smiley9.gif" border="0"> also from California (thanks to SMatney  <img border="0" src="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0"> )<br />19. Sawtooth Caulerpa<br /><br />Wow, I didn't realize that I had that many <img border="0" src="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/smileys/smiley5.gif" border="0">  <img border="0" src="http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0"> ]]>
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