I'm egetting some Cheato from a fellow reefer Friday. I'd like to replace the Caulerpa in my
fuge with it. the problem is, my Caulerpa is full of critters (brittle stars, worms, pods, etc) I'd like to not loose all that life. What's the best way to get those guys out of the Caulerpa and into the Cheato? I figure one of two aproaches. 1) move all the Caulerpa to one side of the
fuge, put the Cheato in the other, let natural migration occour over a couple of days, remove the Caulerpa. 2) place Caulerpa in a bucket of tank water, place the Cheato in the
fuge, shake and swirl the Caulerpa in the bucket, remove algae, pour contents of bucket into
fuge. I'm thinking option 1 would be less stressful on the critters, but I'll still loose a lot of stuff in the Caulerpa, and I don't want to get them tangled. Option 2 sounds like I'd get more of the critters out of the Caulerpa, but it's a P.I.T.A., and I think a lot of
detritus would get shaken out of the Caulerpa (it's pretty dense).
Anyone have any opinions?
Here's my exploding brittle star population and my dirty, dirty Caulerpa...
