red turf algae

[cla337]

It's either red turf algae or gracileria, but it's starting to **** me off. I it's kinda irritating some of my yumas. And its gripped pretty tight to the rock. Some is on big rocks that is difficult to take out without disturbing everything, and some is on rocks with corals on them. I'm not sure if I should bite the bullet and pull the rocks out to scrub them down if they are going to disturb my corals.

What eat's this? I have a culerpa/chaeto fuge, and phosban running and I'm pretty sure my fish are pretty low impact in terms of bioload.

 

[starsbravo]

Its a curse from the reef gods.

 

[graveyardworm]

What kinds of herbivores do you have?

 

[cla337]

etc snails, 1 urchin that doesn't seem to do much to it. I had a lawnmower for a good 3 years, but he simply stopped eating and died. I'm thinking of getting a foxface. Tangs too small for 55 gal, (so are foxfaces, but they are hardier) not interested in another lawnmower for the time being...but it all depends on what's going to work best.

Do sea lettuce's eat this?

 

[reefgrief]

I bet a foxface will eat it.. Mine eats everything ( even bubble algae) except slimes & hair algae. My fox face is calm, and even dainty around corals while removing macros. But if you want to keep him healthy , and you dont raise macros in a refugium.. supplement with dry kelp flakes.
Good luck