Bryopsis outbreak - help (search engine busy)

Why not? Is this for your 58? I actually kept mine in my 55 for quite some time. He was really small though.
 
i had a foxface in my 58 for quite a few months. he was TOO big and when i changed out my LR in Jan of last year i took him out. w/ my yellow eye kole tang...TOO much big fish

Lunchbucket
 
Lunch you can always try a rabbit fish. I don't think they get as big as a fox face. They are awesome at eating pest algaes. Even red turf!
 
I have a 225 which is alot bigger tank, I only had a purple tang and added a Fox face, they quarreled alittle and then I added the rabbit fish, only the fox face quarreled with the rabbit fish but they all get along fine now. The purple tang has never bothered the rabbit. Just the Fox.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6554553#post6554553 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lunchbucket
....i'm guessing it is trapping detritus.?????

Lunchbucket
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Exactly.

Keep it brushed and cleaned while also cleaning your tank. Use an airline tube to yank it as out as you perform water changes.

At the same time, get some lettuce nudibranchs (ive had two seperate types of lettuce nudibranche eat it).
 
I have a Red Sea Sailfin tang that took care of a minor problem with it that I had, I believe it is a desjardin sailfin
 
king-kong - brushed?? brushed hair algae :lol: any good tips about getting the detitus out of there?? i blow it out w/ a turkey baster about every day.

i need to get a few lettuce nudi's though

Lunchbucket
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6555763#post6555763 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lunchbucket
king-kong - brushed?? brushed hair algae :lol: any good tips about getting the detitus out of there?? i blow it out w/ a turkey baster about every day.

i need to get a few lettuce nudi's though

Lunchbucket
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I used a tooth brush to scrub the bryopsis off my rock. Every couple days I'd scrub the areas with the stiff brush.

This was how it was: http://www.d3f.org/misc/fish/90g/40-fulltank.jpg in early November.

I need to do a new full-tank shot, because people are going to be surprised, but that shot gives you an idea of my algael problem.
 
Nothing eats it. I have tried every critter known to the hobby and they litterally go around and some (lawnmower) sit right on it and don't touch it. You have to go about attacking this stuff from another angle. I added a above the tank fuge about a month ago with 2 cf27/5500 compact fluer that run 18 hours a day. I've got chaeto and another caulerpa( not sure what it is) as well as hair algae in there. I also lowered the lights in my main tank running only the actinics 4 out of 7 days per week. This has REALLY slowed it down. You could also remove all the fish. IMO fish poop + intense light=nuisance algae no matter what your clean up crew is. With my situation I only keep soft corals but do have a huge fish bioload so I don't know how this would work with sps but IMO either the fish or the lights have to go. The combo is a recipe for disaster.
 
king-kong - didn't scrubbing it release all the hairs to float and find a new place to root??

glad you did well w/ it though

Lunchbucket
 
I'm battling a case of it in my 20 gallon. Do you guys think a lettuce nudibranche would be ok for a 20 gallon?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6557276#post6557276 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sean48183
Nothing eats it. I have tried every critter known to the hobby and they litterally go around and some (lawnmower) sit right on it and don't touch it.
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Lettuce Nudibranchs eat it.

I've had two seperate types of lettuce nudi's mow it down. They still leave the base stalk (they cut it in 1/2). They are a great supplement to battling it in conjunction with hand pruning, detritus clean-up, and good water quality.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6557691#post6557691 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lunchbucket
king-kong - didn't scrubbing it release all the hairs to float and find a new place to root??

glad you did well w/ it though

Lunchbucket
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No. You'd think so, but that didnt happen at all. Remember, however, that at the same time I was (and still am) doing 5% waterchanges every 2-3 days.
 
I have tried 2 lettuces and both never touched it just kept crawling on the glass and finally got caught on the power head intakes. Would not waste my money on these ever again.
 
I had a huge outbreak of Bryopsis a couple years ago. I found you can't suck it up with an airline tube the way you can with hair algae, because Bryopsis is stiff - it's not flexible enough to go up the tube. Heck- you can grab ahold of Bryopsis and pick up a piece of live rock with it - the stuff is tough. I got rid of mine in a 55 gal by finding the right Yellow Tang. Put a few wads of the Bryopsis in a baggie, and take it to your LFS. Drop it in their tank of Yellow Tangs (with permission of course), and watch closely for the one or two that eat it. Some will go for it, some will ignore it. Buy/borrow the one that eats it. Worked for me. It ate it all in a few weeks. I took back the Tang, and now I keep two urchins grazing at all times.
 
I have two pincusion urchins roaming around. I haven't seen any sign of Bryopsis for over two years. Then 3 weeks ago, I updated my PC light to 4 T-5's. Now I see a few "hairs" of Bryopsis on a few rocks. I don't know if they were always there, and I couldn't see them because of the dimmer PC's or what. I did mentally record where a few hairs were on a rock Friday night, and after lights out watched one of the urchins glide over it. In the morning, no more "hairs". Remember - if you're not use to urchins - they can move LARGE pieces of rock. Make sure everything is stacked tight so you won't have any tumbling rock into glass instances.
 
Put a few wads of the Bryopsis in a baggie, and take it to your LFS. Drop it in their tank of Yellow Tangs (with permission of course), and watch closely for the one or two that eat it.
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OMG!... do I need to utter another word! yeah, thats smart, infect the LFS tanks! geeze PEOPLE!
 
i used to have a pencil urchin my my old 55gal tank. never had them since. but i bet they do mow down some serious algae

Lunchbucket
 
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