Caulerpa prolifica questions

[swk]

Hi everyone. Came home from a weeks vacation to find most of my caulerpa looking like this:



So I trimmed it all down and even the stalks appear like this, with white balls on the end



Anyone know what's going on here? This batch has been in the tank about 6 weeks. Dosed peroxide for a week at 1 ml per 10 gal for dinoflagellates, in addition to blackout, gfo, carbon, etc.

Is this what going sexual caulerpa looks like?

 

[swk]

Anyone??? Bueller???

 

[Subsea]

I am not familiar with the use of hydrogen peroxide on macro algae. I suspect that the Prolifera is responding to the h202.

When healthy Caulerpa, that is growing fast, depletes available nutrients, it disintegrates. This event happens quickly, in less than 1 hour. Advanced warning would be stunted growth after a period of accelerated growth, up to a week in advance. Sections that turn white indicate the beginning of the process. Healthy Caulerpa should show opaque at the tips, indicating fast growth. Shortly before the sexual event the stems will increase in diameter and start oozing a white fluid. This fluid would be spores as self preservation.

The dark green color does not look like any Caulerpa I have seen. Was it that color when you first got it? I am familiar with a lighter emerald green.