I.D help

dse18612 · 03-13-2008, 01:56 PM

I dont know if its atype of hair algae or what it grows on the glass

**Phurst** · 03-13-2008, 02:13 PM

Looks like bryopsys to me. IMO one of the harder nuisance algaes to get rid of.

**JustDavidP** · 03-13-2008, 02:34 PM

Methinks yer right Pearson... It is some tough turf..

My seahorses liked hitching to it...

Dave

**Phurst** · 03-13-2008, 03:39 PM

Cool picture Dave!

**Amphibious** · 03-13-2008, 03:58 PM

That's what it is! I've been fighting it for about six months. Rip it out with fingers, do water changes, and possibly run a phosban reactor. I don't have the reactor but I just spent 2 hours yesterday and today ripping it and doing a general cleaning in my 135. Tomorrow I'll be doing a 30 gal water change.

Few critters eat it. I've noticed after ripping it out, my two blennys eat the new growth. Once it gets bushy and grown out their feeding on it deminshes. I have a 6" Sohal and 5" Desjardini Tangs and they pick at it now and then.

Good luck getting rid of it.

Dick

Reefbaby · 03-13-2008, 07:11 PM

pluck it out...if it's on the glass, then use your magnetic cleaner....I was persistent with my tweezers and was able to keep the lawn mowed to a length that the tangs finally decimated it.

**JustDavidP** · 03-14-2008, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Phurst

Cool picture Dave!

Thanks.. that was one of my "herds" grazing in one of my "fields"