Caulerpa Prolifera

[KurtG]

Does anybody know where I can find some of this? I found some on ebay,
but it was XXL 15 inch variety which seems too big to me.

Does it make good tang food?

--Kurt

[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

[...C. prolifera...]
> Does anybody know where I can find some of this?

I guess - sorry I know - in the Mediterranean Sea..! ;-)

> I found some on ebay,
> but it was XXL 15 inch variety which seems too big to me.

Hmm.., caulerpas are _green_ algae but no tang..!

> Does it make good tang food?

No.., see above-mentioned. Tried "sushi suplies"..? :-)

--
cu
Marco

[Add Homonym]

Marco Schwarz wrote:
> Hi..
>
> [...C. prolifera...]
>
>>Does anybody know where I can find some of this?
>
>
> I guess - sorry I know - in the Mediterranean Sea..! ;-)

Prolifera is native to the Mediterranean. I thgink you mean Caulerpa
taxifolia (feather caulerpa) which is the invasive crap that has sprung
up all over the Mediterranean.

>
>
>>I found some on ebay,
>>but it was XXL 15 inch variety which seems too big to me.
>
>
> Hmm.., caulerpas are _green_ algae but no tang..!
>
>
>>Does it make good tang food?

My yellow tang particularly seems to like Caulerpa racemosa... He also
eats taxifolia when I give it to him, but if he has both, he favors the
recemosa.

I've Never put prolifera in my tank, but I bet he'd eat it.

>
>
> No.., see above-mentioned. Tried "sushi suplies"..? :-)
>

Yah. Nori works wuite well as tang food. (my ocellaris eat it too...)

[Add Homonym]

KurtG wrote:
>
> Does anybody know where I can find some of this? I found some on ebay,
> but it was XXL 15 inch variety which seems too big to me.
>
> Does it make good tang food?
>
> --Kurt

Just to nitpick a bit here... (sorry)

You are supposed to capitalize the genus, but not the species.

It's "Caulerpa prolifera", not "Caulerpa Prolifera"

[KurtG]

Add Homonym wrote:
> It's "Caulerpa prolifera", not "Caulerpa Prolifera"
>

Yeah, I do tend to blunder into the scientific names. Thanks!

[Wayne Sallee]

That Caulerpa is down on the tang list. Tangs like
the grape the best of all the Cauleras.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


KurtG wrote on 1/30/2007 2:53 PM:
>
> Does anybody know where I can find some of this? I found some on ebay,
> but it was XXL 15 inch variety which seems too big to me.
>
> Does it make good tang food?
>
> --Kurt