ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 whats this green fern-type muck? was on coral when i got it, i think my tang eats it, as it seems to come and go. it isnt on any of the other corals/rock i got from the same guy's tank.... shall i incinerate it? or is there a way to treat this if needed. i can set up a quarantine tank if i absolutely have to.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Looks like caulerpa, you don't want it in your display. And personally, I don't like it in any part of the system. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 yeah the leaves seem alot smaller than caulerpa i have had. any ideas on removing / killing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 If people knew how to get rid of it without killing other stuff, it wouldn't be considered a highly invasive species. It's manual removal for things like this. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Looks like Briopsis...Get rid of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 caulerpa taxifolia it is [i think] http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/hcd/caulerpa/Training%20Binder%20ONLINE.pdf anyone want a frag gonna try quarantine the coral & remove it. dont like my chances, this may end up in the garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Looks like Briopsis...Get rid of it! how? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Looks like Briopsis bryopsis is more stringy and finer. looks more like caleurpa. in fact, i have a few pieces of this in my refugium. if it were me, i'd take the whole rock out. last thing you want is a break out of the stuff in your display. i have some caleurpa in my fuge of which it's 'spores' are finely ingrained into holes in the rock. its near impossible to clean a rock fully of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 cheers chim. right in the middle of doing it :^/ the"rock" is a 7 inch across cup coral dont want to hurt it, but i swear ill put it in the bin if i cant get rid of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 fyi caulerpa life cycle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reubs Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Buy a blue tang, that'll get rid of it! :lol: I had a rock covered in this stuff (looked quite effective actually) which my clarkii's used to sleep in (as it was right next to their anenome) but as soon as I got my blue tang and flame angel it's pretty much disappeared....actually come to think of it, anything that looked remotely like algae (including my hydnophora :evil: ) has disappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodle Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Ok i know i havent been around for a while but when did caulerpa become so evil i no it can go asexual if not keeped in check but i thought it was still a good tool for getting rid of nitrate if pruned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Personally I don't like it because it puts other crap into the water, my gut feeling is that it's not particularly effective ore efficient at removing nitrate or phosphate in any significant quantity. There are heaps of other ways of dealing to nitrate/phosphate which don't involve adding even more toxic stuff to the tank. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 i think my yellow eye cole was chewin on it, as it disappeared a couple of times then came back. anyways, the coral it was on has been scraped and quarantined. my money is on it growing back, i dont see how i can get it out of the porous skeleton of the coral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodle Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Ok fair point may have to look into this a bit more before i decide to leave it be but i do know that it collects crud in the evil sandbed it sits in. Hell i may have to call my tank the evil empire and call the batfish Dr Evil :lol: Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cracker Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 bryopsis is more stringy and finer. looks more like caleurpa. in fact, i have a few pieces of this in my refugium. if it were me, i'd take the whole rock out. last thing you want is a break out of the stuff in your display. i have some caleurpa in my fuge of which it's 'spores' are finely ingrained into holes in the rock. its near impossible to clean a rock fully of it. Look at the size of it compared to the egg crate....Briopsis I reckon. Too small for Caulerpa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Hey, The Rubber mans back!! Hey Ghost...try vodka first...between the yellow eye kole and the V, the crap should dissolve in a week or two. You could also pour boiling water over that sectioon of rock and miss everything else. dont kill the coral!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 i would say it is bryopsis too. the size of it, re-growth, density, the only thing that doesn't seem right is that ghostface has a fish that eats it. (not many fish are known to eat bryopsis). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 If the rock is in QT, to get rid of the last bits in the rock pores, use boiling water carefully applied to affected area. However if this cannot be done without hurting the coral, get some of that algae rid they use for fresh water tanks. Remove the coral, and drip the algae rid straight on to the affected areas, trying not to get it onto the coral. Leave out of water for 1/2 hour. Put in a bucket of tank water for 2 hours. Then rinse several times in fresh tank water and return to QT. Don't put back in main for several days, you don't want any algae rid in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Cheers wasp. ill do both boiling water & algae rid methinks. have added vodka & a little bit of LR to the QT [for the bacteria to live on - is this necessary?] the stuff is only growing on the outside of the coral, so i think it will be possible to treat without killing the whole thing. no evidence of the kole tang eating it, just assuming this is the case as it has disappeared a couple of times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 I'm with Cracker, looks EXACTLY like bryopsis to me. FYI - Calurpa is a very efective means of nutrient export and phosphate control. MUD systems use it exclusivly. Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 also a very effective means of making my expensive reef tank look like s**t :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 also a very effective means of making my expensive reef tank look like s**t Really? I think it makes my expensive reef tank look awe**me. Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregb Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Leave it there it looks pretty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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