Havnt mastered fragging yet since pretty new and worried on palytoxin issue [emoji43] ..chuckle but yeah have had hair type and green fuzz etc in QT tank almost 6 months old and peroxide seems to work well on them but this stuff... not so much... lol it is wiry and stiff and sure looks like branching or ferning out as sprigs get bigger and have read that's kinda Bryopsis look but heck as newbie can use feedback [emoji6]
It is really hard to see in this picture. Let's see if we can get our algae expert in on this
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Hey salty [emoji106] Well it's sure rooted good almost pops/snaps kinda when you pull it and my eyes are questionable nowadays for intricate work where right in tiny cracks between polyps with a razor... chuckle..but may not have any option. Stiff enough doesn't really wave or blow around in current like my other hair algae spots do.
Ten four that crossed my mind but as newbie could be alien life form and I would be clueless lol. Its really not fluffy fern like and as the stems get taller they seemed to be getting wider thought maybe trying branch but not sure of that. I don't want to pitch frag away unless absolutely had too actually zoa doing pretty well sigh....how invasive is caulerpa spreading wise?Might be Caulpera prolifera; tough stuff
I would say invasive; I keep some in a nano tank to add to the biodiversity and "trim" it with every water change. I would definitely keep it away from corals and use tweezers to pick the stuff out. Some reefers use it for nutrient export but you have to be careful if it "goes sexual" and adds nutrients back into tank.
+ 1! The only system you might want to have this stuff in is possibly a seahorse tank and that's it!
+1 I agree to not manually remove any algae, especially those that you don't know what they are and how they spread or don't spread, inside your system. Bryopsis spreads like wildfire as does hair algae when you pull it within the system. And I suspect many more forms of algae do as well. For the ones that are treatable with h202 I like to pull the rocks out and let them soak overnight whenever possible in a 5 gallon bucket with a bottle of h202 to four gallons of water. It may seem like Overkill but it works for hair algae. However it did not work for bryopsis or turf algae. So we know now that fluconazole Kills bryopsis very easily, h202 kills HA and hopefully someone will come up with a Turf algae solution too [emoji12]The first pic. I believe is bryopsis. I was able to eliminate it with a two week treatment of fluconazole. If you look closely there are a few strands mixed in with the bryopsis that almost look like a single strand of hair algae. They don't have the "fern look" of the bryopsis..... But it's not hair algae. As you said, this stuff is well rooted and tough to pull off of the rock. It looks like a scraggly beard once it takes off. (pic #2) I found several threads on forums about cladophoropsis and i believe that could be what I have. I have several thick clumps of this stuff established in my rock work. It all started with one frag and a few innocent looking strands on a frag base. I don't feel good about manual removal of algaes of this type because I've read too many times that when small fragments get loose in the water column they settle somewhere else in your rock work and start a new "patch".
In the future I'm going to be a lot more careful about the frags I select and remove and discard as many frag bases I can from new corals.
Not bryopsis, bryopsis has fronds like a fern.Well here's up close after plucking off
If that helps ID can't get good pic sigh in tank
Well that's good I reckon so maybe caulpera kinda looks bladed like that wide and thin...maybe lol
