Need an ID please

[Caronte]

I found this Algae coming as a hitchhicker on my GSP rock. Is a solitarie, finger like specie; and doing some research seems like is a Neomeris annulata, a harmless specie according to the articles I read, but I would like a second opinion please.

 

[Caronte]

nobody can identify this fella? or confirm the ID?

 

[Mayo85]

I'm gonna say its Neomeris annulata

 

[honeybee]

That can get out of hand. I have it in one reef and it is growing on everything. Spread will be slow and will look neat at first but then it will really hard to eliminate.

 

[Caronte]

That can get out of hand. I have it in one reef and it is growing on everything. Spread will be slow and will look neat at first but then it will really hard to eliminate.

really? If this is a Neomeris annulata, the articles I wrote said that they are slow growers

 

[Caronte]

I'm gonna say its Neomeris annulata

Thank you for answer. Do you have any experience dealing with them? Should I remove it?

 

[Mayo85]

Thank you for answer. Do you have any experience dealing with them? Should I remove it?

No problem mate. No experience with it myself but from what I understand it can grow out of control. I like the stuff though so I would keep the rock isolated and keep it in my tank.

 

[honeybee]

If you plan to keep a small rock of this algae in your display tank there is no way to isolate the spores and in time it may cover rocks and hard corals.

The only critter that would eat it was a seahare that I got from Inland Aquatics in Terre Haute IN. The seahare ate all the other algae before it went after the Neomeris.

I never really got rid of it and now that the seahare is gone Neomeris is coming back. :headwally:

 

[Caronte]

Algae don't do very well on my low nutrients system, even my chaeto dies on my refugium and a very mild film algae forms on the BB that I remove it manually with easy; a little spot with 5 to 10 Bubbles of Valonias that I can't get rid of; and that's all of my algae problems.
This kind looks like a calcareous specie but I don't think it will thrive on my system either.
Thanks for the warning anyway

 

[dputt88]

why does everyone have neomeris but me ....

 

[Plantbrain]

why does everyone have neomeris but me ....

It likes high light, high Ca++ levels and current.
and people that do not remove it asap.

 

[dputt88]

I know what it likes but no one ever sells/trades it

 

[Mranderson]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21487472#post21487472

i wanted this til i saw this poor fellows plight. for one its calcareous, so you have that to thank for depletion and it takes hold through accumulating detritus like hair algae and feeds off of that decomposing

 

[gnu]

why does everyone have neomeris but me ....

dputt88, I just found a piece of rubble in my frag tank that has neomeris on it...if you want to pay shipping costs from Cleveland, or possibly trade for a different macro, you can have it. PM me if you want info

 

[dputt88]

PM sent.

and honestly those tanks look amazing... cant wait to put some in my macro tank!

 

[SantaMonica]

Yes it is true that calcareous types don't compete well. Strong algal filtration using the basics of strong light, flow, and attachment, will out-compete just about anything except corals.

 

[Caronte]

I keep mine under moderate flow and strong lights. After a couple months still a solitaire specimen but it double its size. Anybody knows how tall it can be ¿
I found some articles like THIS ONE that said that is hard to eradicate, however, looks so fragile to me, and tell me if I'm wrong, but seems very easy to manually break it out/ I like it so far but still under probation