|
|
|
12/21/2012, 09:33 PM
|
#1 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: South of St Louis, MO
Posts: 238
|
algae? what is this?
Is this algae? good? bad?
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 09:36 PM
|
#2 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Omaha,NE
Posts: 224
|
cyano
|
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 09:40 PM
|
#3 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: South of St Louis, MO
Posts: 238
|
never seen green cyano like that
|
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 10:05 PM
|
#4 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,037
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 10:07 PM
|
#5 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Marshall, MN
Posts: 214
|
+1 Bryopsis - Keep plucking out what you can get so it doesn't get out of control
|
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 10:17 PM
|
#6 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: South of St Louis, MO
Posts: 238
|
ok... thx... anything eat it?
|
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 10:23 PM
|
#7 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,037
|
You will see this in a newier tank. With regular maintance and a more mature tank it will fall back on its own.
|
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 10:42 PM
|
#8 |
|
Apsiring Alhcohlolic
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 772
|
Bryopsis
if thats the only place it is growing, pull that frag and use a razor blade to help pluck the frag off of it and throw the rock away. You don't want that algae. Tubro Snails, Rabbitfish, Naso Tangs and Gratilla Urchins will sometimes eat it, but don't bet on it. IME they more readily eat it if it is weakened (Tech-M treatment). Lettuce Nudibranches will eat Bryopsis and only Bryopsis, but it takes a lot of them (as they are small) and in addition they are delicate as well as poisonous.
__________________
120G AGA Dual Overflow, 40G B Sump, SRO-2000int, 2 Eheim 200w Heater, Eheim 1262 Return, BRS C & GFO React., BR-1000ss Biopellet React., Tunze 5017 ATO, 2 MP-40wes, DIY 76LED (36RB,24NW,6B,6CW,4Moon) Last edited by jamesbaur13; 12/21/2012 at 10:50 PM. |
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 11:34 PM
|
#9 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: South of St Louis, MO
Posts: 238
|
hmmm... I have turbos and a rabbitfish and yes, that is the only place i see it so i pulled the rock and did use a razor blade on the coral. hopefully i have it. yes, it is new (4 months old now) ... thx for the advice and input
|
|
|
|
|
12/21/2012, 11:40 PM
|
#10 |
|
Apsiring Alhcohlolic
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 772
|
np, glad you got it.
__________________
120G AGA Dual Overflow, 40G B Sump, SRO-2000int, 2 Eheim 200w Heater, Eheim 1262 Return, BRS C & GFO React., BR-1000ss Biopellet React., Tunze 5017 ATO, 2 MP-40wes, DIY 76LED (36RB,24NW,6B,6CW,4Moon) |
|
|
|
|
12/22/2012, 11:45 AM
|
#11 |
|
Moved On
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Stockton, CA
Posts: 14,854
|
That looks more like the green wiry algae in this link than bryopsis to me. (Cladophoropsis)
http://www.reefcleaners.org/index.ph...d=54&Itemid=60 |
|
|
|
|
12/22/2012, 12:11 PM
|
#12 |
|
Registered Member.
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Panhandle
Posts: 724
|
What's your flow like?
|
|
|
|
|
12/22/2012, 12:26 PM
|
#13 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Corbin, KY
Posts: 33
|
To be safe, I would pull it. If it is bryopsis you dont want it to get out of control
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
