Left side view, March 16, 2015

seahorses will add some fertilizer to the sand bed. this grass is 50% plant has roots and needs to feed. we use prolifera caulerpra not as nice but easy to grow and the horses love it, please drop by this weekend if you have time, we have a member in old town I sold her 4 horses now she has 30  

There's a Molly Miller blenny in there and five peppermint shrimp, along with two largish red brittle stars and a fair number of snails (Astrea, cerith, Nerite) and blue-legged hermit crabs. I feed the tank about twice a week.

 

Turtle grass actually thrives in a relatively low-nutrient environment where it's able to out-compete most algae for nutrients. Much of the grass in this tank came from the tank of another member who decided to take his tank in a different direction. It had basically taken over in his reef tank.

 

I'm still trying to get the nutrient balance in my tank right; and part of that will come as the grass establishes itself a bit better. I continue to have problems with nuisance algae. Too few nutrients are not my current problem. I don't want to add horses (or much else that's not going to consume detritus or nuisance algae) until I feel like I have a good handle on this.

 

I had some Caulerpa mexicana in the tank for a little while; but I pulled it all out after it started to take over the tank.