strange plants?
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Found some more info on it...
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/greenalg.htm
Often called Spindleweed, Maiden's Hair, or Catepillar Weed. I can't seem to find much more info than pictures and that it isn't nuisance algae....
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/greenalg.htm
Often called Spindleweed, Maiden's Hair, or Catepillar Weed. I can't seem to find much more info than pictures and that it isn't nuisance algae....
Casbarian's Neomeris vanbosseae CAN become become a nuisance, in high-nutrient (particularly with respect to the substarte) regimes, growing densely on hard substrate --and then they are very tough to remove --the anchorage to substrate can be pretty tenacious, and any remnant material can regenerate.
you'll know soon if your system is conducive to an unmanageable Neomeris presence, or whether, like MOST reef tanks, low nutrient levels, herbivorous attention and competition from other sesiles/benthics is keeping them in check.
They accrete calcium, yes, but it would take a considerable infestation to put a dent in a reef tank's Ca levels. thereby.
hth
Casbarian, can i use your photo of neomeris in an online article?
Your name (which you can shoot over via PM if you're willing) would be credited, marked directly onto the picture. The stickythread atop the forum on Bryopsis includes one such credited photo (to Jim Bednar)
Anything else you want to know about Neomeris?
horge
you'll know soon if your system is conducive to an unmanageable Neomeris presence, or whether, like MOST reef tanks, low nutrient levels, herbivorous attention and competition from other sesiles/benthics is keeping them in check.
They accrete calcium, yes, but it would take a considerable infestation to put a dent in a reef tank's Ca levels. thereby.
hth
Casbarian, can i use your photo of neomeris in an online article?
Your name (which you can shoot over via PM if you're willing) would be credited, marked directly onto the picture. The stickythread atop the forum on Bryopsis includes one such credited photo (to Jim Bednar)
Anything else you want to know about Neomeris?
horge
horge said:Anything else you want to know about Neomeris?
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What is the best way to get rid of this stuff... it is starting to blossom across my tank.... I just recently checked Nitrates and Phosphates and got 0, or nearly 0 results.... Much of it is growing in areas where I can't pull it at the base....
thanks in advance....
Physical removal is the best answer, coupled with aggressive reduction of substrate nutrients. This doesn't help you much, given the situation of their anchorage.
You may be reading zero (or nearly zero) from test kits, but most nutrient concentrations tend to vary on a gradient, rising as you get closer to the bottom or to hard substrate. However, advising an aquarist to reduce nutrient levels is most of the time really empty advice. Where there is gross nutrient import, yes, the advice can produce some benefit. Most reeftanks AREN'T so 'overfed', and the source of unwanted nutient is already intrinsic to the tank system (bioload, or inclusions in the substrate, etc.)
I had to deal with 11 separate Neomeris abuses over the past 20 years or so. Herbivores like urchins can and do reduce the visible presence, but they pretty much clean off everything else on the rock.
What has never failed is simply starving it out via competition.
I've used a number of of algae in a remote compartment effectively to scrub nutrient, from Chlorodesmis to (recently) Chaetomorpha. This hamstrings the problem alga's ability to spread and grow, so that leisurely picking and any in-house herbivores can end the infestation.
hth
You may be reading zero (or nearly zero) from test kits, but most nutrient concentrations tend to vary on a gradient, rising as you get closer to the bottom or to hard substrate. However, advising an aquarist to reduce nutrient levels is most of the time really empty advice. Where there is gross nutrient import, yes, the advice can produce some benefit. Most reeftanks AREN'T so 'overfed', and the source of unwanted nutient is already intrinsic to the tank system (bioload, or inclusions in the substrate, etc.)
I had to deal with 11 separate Neomeris abuses over the past 20 years or so. Herbivores like urchins can and do reduce the visible presence, but they pretty much clean off everything else on the rock.
What has never failed is simply starving it out via competition.
I've used a number of of algae in a remote compartment effectively to scrub nutrient, from Chlorodesmis to (recently) Chaetomorpha. This hamstrings the problem alga's ability to spread and grow, so that leisurely picking and any in-house herbivores can end the infestation.
hth
thanks for the input.... I had recently started adding about 1 capful of the small bottle of DT's per week. I'll back off that and some of the feeding (although my feeding was pretty limited) as well as dive in and pluck all I can to see if I can get this under control.
I did notice that is started to reappear on rock that I had used in a previous tank that went neglicted for quite some time (basically running without any corals / fish.. just water and no feeding). But now its spreading throughout... perhaps I can push it back into submission....
I did notice that is started to reappear on rock that I had used in a previous tank that went neglicted for quite some time (basically running without any corals / fish.. just water and no feeding). But now its spreading throughout... perhaps I can push it back into submission....
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