Please Id this algae

Well if this is "bryopsis" i had it , or still have a teeny bit on a rock thats in there.

 

+2 Get it out asap. Also looks like you've got some bubble algae and red planaria on that rock.

 

+3 on Bryopsis. Very hard to elliminate. If you try and pull it out. Rinse your fingers in fresh water after each pull.

J

 

Sorry about the confusion, I never had Bryopsis, but it looks just like it. Luna

 

Heck luna don't feel bad' I thought it was regular hair algae my self.
( i evidently have it as well ) but when i saw it , i went after it like a fat kid chasing a cup cake.
I starved the fish basicly, bought a few extra snails, and scrubbed the rock like mad, cut photo period down, now theres only a teeny bit left.
this happened over the course of like 2 months though, and havint seen any reocourance or growth of such,
( but i have been watching the little specks of it, might pull the rock out again, and scrub again ), now that it's confirmed bryopsis.

Oh i do have a phosphate reactor on the tank as well to help scavenge any that might lerk about.

It would seem this *bryopsis* (as i remember) did start to cover this rock fairly quickly and evidently grew faster than the fish/snails could consume.

You know the only thing that may have saved me' was the abundance of coraline that i have on all the rock, and seeing it as soon as i did and getting on it before it had a chance to spread.

 

There are no fish/snails that consume bryopsis. It is toxic and if eaten, can and will kill whatever eats it. That being said, sea hares and lettuce nudibranchs have been known to eat it but don't often live long enough to eradicate it.

 

Well whats keeping mine down then ?
I have an asortment of fish,blue chromis, midas blennies,hippo,sally light foot, red lobster, skunk shrimp, and an aray of sails of diffrent kinds.

 

No idea. Could just be that the species that you have isn't as invasive as some of the other species.

 

A Cerith snail will survive almost a nuclear holocaust and is is highly recomended, by one of our newer members I cant remember who right now though

 

Well yes there are sevral types, what type did you have ?