Sea Grapes growing from Toadstool Leather

[MrBrbsmoke]

Title is mostly self explanatory, I'm doing a bunch of maintenance on one of my tanks to make sure a mystery hitchhiker isn't spreading while I figure out what it is and noticed my recently dramatic shroom had something sharp-ish near his base, positioned on a nubby rockscape. So I bit the bullet and clipped up the rock to remove it and found what appears to be a small batch of sea grapes growing out of the base of its stem.

I am personally not against sea grapes going into one of my tanks, I wouldn't mind keeping them but the question is, how do I go about removing them? Do I just slice off the foot? Just a chunk of where they're growing from or a clean slice through? Do I then remove them cleanly or see if a smaller toadstool frag will grow in better harmony on a plug with its roommate?

 

[Borat]

this look like bubble algae... and you should deal with it as soon as practically possible before they spread..

 

[Goaway]

Title is mostly self explanatory, I'm doing a bunch of maintenance on one of my tanks to make sure a mystery hitchhiker isn't spreading while I figure out what it is and noticed my recently dramatic shroom had something sharp-ish near his base, positioned on a nubby rockscape. So I bit the bullet and clipped up the rock to remove it and found what appears to be a small batch of sea grapes growing out of the base of its stem.

I am personally not against sea grapes going into one of my tanks, I wouldn't mind keeping them but the question is, how do I go about removing them? Do I just slice off the foot? Just a chunk of where they're growing from or a clean slice through? Do I then remove them cleanly or see if a smaller toadstool frag will grow in better harmony on a plug with its roommate?

They grow like vines. You can carefully peel off the caulerpa. Place where you'd like it to grow. Loosely tie to a piece of rubble. It should take root. They can even grow unattached while searching for foundation.

 

[MrBrbsmoke]

They grow like vines. You can carefully peel off the caulerpa. Place where you'd like it to grow. Loosely tie to a piece of rubble. It should take root. They can even grow unattached while searching for foundation.

Much appreciated, I will give it a go after dinner tonight. My main concern is that they are growing up into the toadstool itself, I tried to peel them gently already. Then again it cant be much worse than people toothpicking frags down if I left a tiny hole in it for a few days. Maybe I am just looking for an excuse to cut him down to size a bit as he's getting close to the top of the tank when fully extended lol

 

[Goaway]

Much appreciated, I will give it a go after dinner tonight. My main concern is that they are growing up into the toadstool itself, I tried to peel them gently already. Then again it cant be much worse than people toothpicking frags down if I left a tiny hole in it for a few days. Maybe I am just looking for an excuse to cut him down to size a bit as he's getting close to the top of the tank when fully extended lol

I never found my grape seaweed hurting coral. It just grew around them. Now ferm caulerpa is a different story.

You can also let it grow a bit more before you remove it. Or frag your shroom.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Grape caulerpa, completely harmless macroalgae, I have it growing at the base of my Duncan, dosent hurt anything