sternicus
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To me, his looks like bubble algae and hair algae of some sort. To me also looks some what like bryopsis, both turned up while I was on vacation. Tanks been up for 6 months and haven’t added anything since RAP.
Help identifying and removing
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Diesel
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HA and BA.
Don’t spot any bryopsis.
Try to manual remove as much as possible.
You can siphon the BA through a tubing or inject it with MA, it will kill the spores inside the BA.
Don’t spot any bryopsis.
Try to manual remove as much as possible.
You can siphon the BA through a tubing or inject it with MA, it will kill the spores inside the BA.
Diesel
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Muriatic acid
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sternicus
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Subsea
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Not too many of us keep muriatic acid at home. Use undiluted hydrogen peroxide. For those algae’s, after removing by hand or syphon, then use tooth brush soaked in H2O2 and scrub the offending surface. Repeatedly resoak tooth brush in peroxide and brush off algae as H2O2 oxidizes everything it touches. If possible, remove rock and soak in 10% solution of peroxide and tank water for 10 minutes.
Sallstrom
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If you want to try a biological way there are some possible grazers for these algae.
Mixtrax crabs are often good grazers for Valonia algae(bubble algae).
I've also seen good results with rabbitfish.
Sea urchins like Diadema, Tripneustes and Mespilia graze all kinds of algae. One or some of those might be worth a try.
Good luck
/ David
Mixtrax crabs are often good grazers for Valonia algae(bubble algae).
I've also seen good results with rabbitfish.
Sea urchins like Diadema, Tripneustes and Mespilia graze all kinds of algae. One or some of those might be worth a try.
Good luck
/ David
Diesel
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Sorry it won’t do it for BA.
You start scrubbing you start seeding your tank even more.
Diesel
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Crabs are great but just think about it that one BA has a few hundred spores in them and that crab is breaking it open......
Foxface are the best but not for every tank due to size or already have other fish in there that won’t play nice together.
Yes I had a magnificent he was a model grazer in one of the fragtanks where I had more BA than frags one time
Sallstrom
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Crabs are great but just think about it that one BA has a few hundred spores in them and that crab is breaking it open......
Foxface are the best but not for every tank due to size or already have other fish in there that won’t play nice together.
Yes I had a magnificent he was a model grazer in one of the fragtanks where I had more BA than frags one time
Like I wrote, I seen both those crabs and rabbitfish do a great job. They are individuals, some like Valonia algae, some prefer other food instead
But sure, if there's just a couple of small patches of Valonia on one rock, it might be easier to do like you wrote above. I havn't tried that way. I work mostly with large tanks and then there is more of a constant battle, no way of erase them for good.
