Bryopsis vs turbinaria

[leviburns89]

So I think I just got a good pic of side by side turbinaria (left) and bryopsis (right).

The algae on the right is plaguing my tank, the stuff on the left pops up here and there, but is easy to manually pull out.

Ideas on how to get rid of the bryopsis?

I do bi weekly water changes, and I only feed my fish what they can eat within 2 minutes. Usually only 2 micro pellets make it to the sandbed or corals.

I'm certain that my rock is leaching phosphates, but I want to stear clear of gfo, and don't really want to deal with lanthanum or phosrx, as I have only a carbon reactor for filtering.

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[leviburns89]

After reviewing my threads, I don't think turbinaria is the right name. I can't however find what one person had said it was, nor turn up Google results.

But none the less, those are the two types I have in my system

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[Dogshowgrl]

I am leaning away from bryopsis it looks more fern like. Think palm frond. I am the queen of bryopsis. This looks like two different types of hair algae.

I bought some "kelp on rock" for my seahorse tank.... And now I am dosing magnesium... Yay bryopsis. I would say check nitrates and phosphates sources and manual removal/seahare rental. But someone might be able to give more details on species. But after my three rounds of this I am hoping it's not a type of bryopsis that I haven't seen yet.... GL

 

[leviburns89]

I would love to get or rent a seahare.
Do they differ from lettuce nudibranchs?

And what's a going rate on then?

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[Bent]

A sea hare probably won't touch that stuff.

 

[Reef Frog]

Getting an animal to eat it and stay alive long term is a hit or miss proposition. They often die when the food runs out of for other reasons.

Peroxide and TechM treatment will kill bryopsis, but remnants remain, waiting to reemerge at another time when conditions are favorable. But you need to drive down phosphates to undetectable levels and keep them there for a long time to solve the problem long term. You need to starve it out, plain & simple. So if you have ruled out GFO & lanthium chloride, the only technique that comes to mind is skillful carbon dosing, which can be much more difficult because you may find yourself nitrate limited.

 

[leviburns89]

So I've knuckled down and bought a phosban reactor today. My initial reason for not wanting one was because I hadn't seen a HOB option.

But two little fishies makes a nice HOB reactor. So hopefully it will be here by friday, and I can have phosban running by this weekend.

Now the onslaught of buying phosban, gfo, or rowaphos until my issue levels out. Hopefully I won't have to replace it every week, or this will become a very very expensive solution.

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[heathlindner25]

Get you some urchins, they'll eat anything green or pink.

 

[leviburns89]

Get you some urchins, they'll eat anything green or pink.

What is pink? Coraline?

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[heathlindner25]

What is pink? Coraline?

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Yes

 

[leviburns89]

Yes

I see. Yeah I definitely need to keep my coralline algae growth. Wife is constantly asking "why aren't the rocks purple".

I tell her that it takes time for it to spread, but none the less, she dictates how much time and money I spend on this hobby, so coralline wins over urchin.

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