cracker Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 Has anyone come across this before, It is very nice, but rather an agressive form of calcereous algae, (Very purple too). It is very similar to VELCRO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquatopia Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 no THATS the colour i want in my tanks !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveA Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Yep, had it, or something very like it, for a while and it occasionaly returns. I think it was a bit redder than the one in your pic and I suspect in my case it was a local import. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 i had similar in my cold water tank - like normal coralline but small branches start coming out from it. seemed to be just another typr of coralline, didnt take over the tank or anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 nice, gotta hate that valonia tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted March 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Yip, damn crap...I hate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveA Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Yip, damn crap...I hate it! Get one of your tangs to eat it. Apart from the couple that are reputed to eat it anyway, I think most may well eat it once they realise it is food. I once accidentally trained a yellow tang to eat it when I was removing some and a bit got loose. The yellow, being a greedy bugger, sampled it, liked it and within a couple of weeks had rid the tank of it. Currenly my blue tang removes any it can get it's nose into. Big fish, big nose, so some remains in the hard to get at places. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 good, come up and train my blue tang to eat it then!!! cant stand the stuff, as soon as you remove it the next day there are small clumps of it again. so hard not to pop sometimes i think wasp posted a while back that he had some sort of invert (a crab?) that ate his? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveA Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Does you blue eat peas? That yellow used to, perhaps that had something to do with it sampling a floating bubble. (It was a sad day when I lost that fish. I had a coral bleach suddenly and I think the tang decided to sample the algae it ejected - a bad idea as it was dead shortly thereafter.) The blue tang did not touch it in my previous tank but it does in this one. Perhap the reason is that my old tank had plenty of caulerpa when the fish arrived and this could keep up with its apetite. Caulerpa gets mowed down as soon as it appears in the current tank so it may be the tang has been forced to diversify. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Does you blue eat peas? yeah i tried, but unfortunately no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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