Bryopsis Help?

Mike Lemming · Oct 12, 2016

Hey everyone
I recently set up a 75 gallon mixed reef (6 weeks old) and some of the rock I added from my last tank, brought over bryopsis and its starting to spread. What can I do to get rid of it? Is raising my Magnesium the only way to eradicate it?
Thanks in advance!

Darth George · Oct 12, 2016

The mag works for some (it may be the lithium in the kents). I manually remove it with all flow off (spreads by spores). Then I've reduced nutrients as much as I can. Slowly starting to turn white and die off.

Darth George · Oct 12, 2016

Mike Lemming said:
Hey everyone
I recently set up a 75 gallon mixed reef (6 weeks old) and some of the rock I added from my last tank, brought over bryopsis and its starting to spread. What can I do to get rid of it? Is raising my Magnesium the only way to eradicate it?
Thanks in advance!

I have a smaller tank so I don't have room for a foxface, or any other large fish that MIGHT eat it.

Mike Lemming · Oct 12, 2016

Darth George said:
The mag works for some (it may be the lithium in the kents). I manually remove it with all flow off (spreads by spores). Then I've reduced nutrients as much as I can. Slowly starting to turn white and die off.

I'll have to try that. Thanks

Mike Lemming · Oct 12, 2016

Darth George said:
I have a smaller tank so I don't have room for a foxface, or any other large fish that MIGHT eat it.

I have a powder blue tang in QT at the moment. I've heard if you're lucky, some tangs nip at it as well. Fingers crossed!

brandon429 · Oct 12, 2016

theres a way to beat it 100% if you remove rocks and make the algae die. hardly anyone wants to do that though, they want to try the water additions first to see if that works, and then even when the tank is taken over they still wont beat it, they'll start fresh

Mike Lemming · Oct 12, 2016

brandon429 said:
theres a way to beat it 100% if you remove rocks and make the algae die. hardly anyone wants to do that though, they want to try the water additions first to see if that works, and then even when the tank is taken over they still wont beat it, they'll start fresh

brandon429 · Oct 12, 2016

here's that hard work method~
http://reef2reef.com/threads/5-new-...be-cured-using-a-rasp-and-a-test-rock.257862/

we do what parrotfishes do, and bry loses (or any other anchored species)

not dealing with the anchors is why other methods work sometimes, and this one always works. kent alone has 75%-80% chance of working and is fine to try (or any other magnesium, brand doesn't matter)

but before a startover, the rasping always works and its easily demonstrated in your test rock setup. the best part of the approach is that 100% of tankers can model actions on a test rock and find the working condition.