Green Bubble algae

[alton]

Odd. I have one emerald crab in my 30g that was covered like in your pick and he eats it all day long. I have very few left in the tank at this point. My crab is an Atlantic emerald. Green with hairy legs.


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emeralds work on certain strains, they will not touch the strain I have. I have even tried the red emeralds

 

[alton]

At this point the BA is on 2 frags. My wife seems to think she can keep picking it off. I told her to remove the coral from the plug and see if that fixes the problem. My concern is this will spread to other corals and then we will have a mess. Right now the tank is only 2 months old and has about 50 frags, positioned into the aquascape, a year or two from now it will be a lot different.

Remove immediately and place frags on clean rock. I have fragged many corals from my 180 that has some bubble algae, and placed in other tanks and the bubble algae did not follow the corals into the new tanks. I introduced the strain I have by buying a clam from a fellow reefer. I thought I could just pick it off too, WRONG.

 

[xCry0x]

Remove immediately and place frags on clean rock. I have fragged many corals from my 180 that has some bubble algae, and placed in other tanks and the bubble algae did not follow the corals into the new tanks. I introduced the strain I have by buying a clam from a fellow reefer. I thought I could just pick it off too, WRONG.

Yup!

I have learned that the best way to take in new frags is to re-frag them -- if possible remove from plug and attach to a new, clean plug.

 

[xCry0x]

Yes it worked great on helping control it on my 180.

Glad to hear - I am hopeful that between the dosing and manual removal it will start to dissipate here over the next 30 days.

It also seems to be helping with my red turf algae -- at least the turf seems to not be growing anymore so my snails are able to effectively fight it back =)

 

[JTL]

Remove immediately and place frags on clean rock. I have fragged many corals from my 180 that has some bubble algae, and placed in other tanks and the bubble algae did not follow the corals into the new tanks. I introduced the strain I have by buying a clam from a fellow reefer. I thought I could just pick it off too, WRONG.

Have never fragged. It is on one zoa with at least 40 polyps and of course it keeps coming up from the middle of the cluster. The other is on a Duncan put it keeps popping up on the frag. Do we just scrape off the Duncan and re-glue?

 

[alton]

Sorry I only moved Sps and frogspawn frags

 

[xCry0x]

Zoa's are fairly easy to frag -- just be sure to wear gloves and goggles.

They basically attach as a mat, you can get a razor blade under the mat and peel the whole thing off the plug - or even off a rock. Then you just superglue it to a new frag plug.

 

[Uncle99]

Emeral crabs only eat the small bubbles.
You should carefully inspect each and every addition to your aquarium and dip..dip...dip...must easier before they are in the aquarium.
Reduce the white light, strip the phosphate with a GFO, make sure your PH is 8.4

 

[JTL]

I think we fixed our little issue. The Duncan was easy and there was some BA in between the stalks, only one or two but gone now. The zoa was on a small rock we we got it so we did not move it to a new rock. Once the polyps were removed there were several small bubbles in the rock holes. It would have kept coming back. I got this coral from a lfs that I no longer do business with for a variety of reasons. BA can obviously grow in very clean environments since my tank has zero phosphate and nitrates that are <5. Thankfully no HA.

 

[BFG]

For my 120 gallon tank , a juvenile vlamingii tang is the only fish that totally cleared this bubble algae . Found this out by chance when a colleague bought this fish by mistake and he appeared at my doorstep with this fish in a bag . I wasnt too keen in having any tang in my tank but since I have a tank full of bubble algae , I told him just dump the fish in my tank . Less than a week , this fish single handedly cleared every bubble algae that I can see and then some .

But this fish grew ! It also was able to stand its own ground against my large green wrasse , which killed my mystery wrasse when I add it to the tank months before . Long story short , I traded both vlamingii and green wrasse for a group of firefish at my lfs . Not a single green bubble appeared again and this tank has been running since 2006 . Till now , there are no sighting of even a single bubble in my tank . Unfortunately , I am planning for a new tank as this current tank had a large scratch in the front pane of the glass .