Bryopsis outbreak - help (search engine busy)

DJ88 DANG IT! i've had it for quite some time. hasn't been that bad though. it came out of no where.

astreas and ceriths...mini ceriths...no online place carries them? astreas actually eat the stuff? i try to blow the bryopsis off every night to keep the stuff out of it. also i'll keep pruning, h2o changes, po4 media (might get a hanna colorimeter to tell my real po4 level). pH huh...hmm...might ahve to try that. just washing soda....you drip dose or one time dose

Lunchbucket
 
I have two things that eat it in my tank, the sea slug, and the blue tuxedo urchin. If its just a little spot try those.
I highly urge you not to blast the stuff with a turkey baster or anything like that, if it gets loose in your tank it will travel to new locations. I know from experience on that one. UGHHH
ALRgihtttty
Erik
 
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I had bryopsis also. It was the one thing that almost made me leave the hobby. I lost a bunch of SPS to it. It took a year or longer for me to finally get rid of it.

What I did was add some grape Caulerpa to my sump and put a little power compact light over it. The Caulerpa grew like mad and I had to prune it often but the not long after I added it my bryopsis started to recede and soon, all of it was gone.

Also, it did try the Lettuce Sea slugs that Darren mentioned and they did eat it and they multiplied like crazy but there was too much bryopsis and most if not all of them ended up in my overflow, sump and worse, the return pump.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6433994#post6433994 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eriksmacks
Doug I,m going to have nightmares tonigh from those pics
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I'm sorry about that.

I will have to find the full tank shots that I took. If you think those were bad, the full tank shots were worse.
 
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Sorry the image is so small. You can see the bryopsis spreading on most of the rock and that wasn't even the worst of it.
 
ericks - hmm...sea slug and blue tuxedo urchin...might have to try those. i'm sure when i pull off some of that algae there are stry pieces but i have never had them grow anywhere....guess i have gotten lucky. i have heard that the bryopsis will trap detritus (sp?) and you need to blow out that stuff that fuels them.

the calupra refugium is a good idea. but i have no room :(

doug that for those disturbing images. i'm sure it will never get that bad in my tank. i think i have it under control...but we will see.

Lunchbucket
 
Lunch, I hope that you never have it that bad. I would not wish that on anyone.

Here is a little closer picture.

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i've used purigen several times to take out bryposis. i use alot of it in a bag (the whole 250ml for ~120 gallons combined), put somewhere where it gets flow so it churns and fluidizes in the bag. within 2 days, the bryopsis is bleached (at which point my tangs then tear into it and destroy it immediately). then if i leave this much purigen in, a few days later my sps starts to lighten up, eventually bleaching a few days after that. so i've learned to pull it right when the sps lighten just a little and look pretty. dunno if it's stripping a limiting nutrient or if it's increasing the water clarity enough that the light then burns it. but it works every time.

driving to the big city tomorrow to pick up an AP902 so that i hopefully never have to worry about it again. thanks marvin!
 
Thanks for all of the discussion about this matter, I'll try to post some pics of my Bryopsis problem. Luckily my tank is not fully stocked and there are some peices of LR that I can remove and scrub if necessary (I just rearranged the whole tank and hate doing that though!). The LR culprit where the problem started is covered in greem 'shrooms however, and this rock is going to be the most difficult to trim since I don't want to damage the corals. To summarize some of the points made in this discussion: more algae eating snails can be tried, lettuce nudibranchs can be tried, an elevated pH, manual pruning and basting to remove debris from the LR, and manderx has had good results using Purigen. I don't know which route I'll take yet (been doing some pruning - but that's a PITA) but thanks for all the info.
 
I have a bit of that crap... I tried the fuge, but chaetomorpha traps detritus. I tried lettuce nudis, the powerheads made quick work of them. I tried picking it myself, fragged a bunch of corals by mistake. I tried a sailfin tang, he only likes to munch off the glass (barely anything there). I tried a lawnmower, same deal... Glass only. Only thing I found worked, mount 4 frags of digitata on the spots on either side, prune back as much as you can. Once they start to grow, clip them back to nubs, and the base will spread out and cover the spot it's growing on.
 
ok not sure why i have bryopsis. my po4 reading was 0.02ppm (Hach colorimeter). i'm guessing it is trapping detritus.?????

Lunchbucket
 
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