Bryopsis? Or Caulerpa? Help!??

[DeltaReeferFL]

Got this out of some Chaeto from lfs, any help would be appreciated. TIA!

 

[W1ngz]

Unless you have some insane macro photography going on, that's not bryopsis. Byopsis looks the same-ish, but it's more easily confused with hair algae since it's much smaller. Most likely caulerpa.

 

[reefwiser]

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[DeltaReeferFL]

No crazy macro lens, fans are a few inches in length. Its been growing probably 4x my chaeto, Should I keep it?

 

[DeltaReeferFL]

Feather fern.

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didnt see the link. Thanks for your help =)

 

[reefwiser]

I would keep in in the sump. Not invasive like Caullerpa which can sexually reproduce.

 

[Bruno_Soares]

Can I have your opinion on macroalgae? Since I don´t have a sump, do you think I can put some Chaeto on a plastic maternity and use the CHaeto inside this, and inside the aquarium? Will it work? Will the Chaeto invade my aquarium?

 

[NS Mike D]

Can I have your opinion on macroalgae? Since I don´t have a sump, do you think I can put some Chaeto on a plastic maternity and use the CHaeto inside this, and inside the aquarium? Will it work? Will the Chaeto invade my aquarium?

I have done it, I have have kept cheato inside a perforated clear container as a pod hotel with success. Cheato is easy to remove if it gets out. Granted my effort was not large enough for significant nutrient up take, but could easily have been placed in a larger container/.

Look up chaeto reactors - they can be DIY using a media reactor and a light source to grow cheato and update nutrients outside the tank but no sump involved. You are pumping tank water through an well lit reactor, the cheato grows using the NO3 and PO4 (and some other good things occur for the tank) and the scrubbed water is returned the the tank. The cheato reactor is at it's core a form of refugium, which is what a section of sump dedicated to grow cheato is.

 

[Bruno_Soares]

Thank you NS Mike D

 

[reefwiser]

The biggest problem the Cheato in the actual aquarium is looks. Not that pretty to look at a ball of Cheato. It will not spread Cheato. I look at Cheato as a moss. You just need to trim it back to a manageable size.