Bryopsis or cualerpa? and Aiptasia, Or?

[PilotMaximus]

This is growing right next to My Peach Apples and worried about it doing harm.

What is it and what is recommended? Whatever is munching on it is only eating the leafs.

 

Also on bottom picture I think I have Aiptasia. Anyone verify this? That I know what to do with.

[Rememberme]

last pic has an aiptasia on the left. I recommend you use aiptasia X or peppermint shrimp (the ones from US not Indonesia)

[jamescstein]

the algae is caulerpa could be mexicana or taxifolia. They are related to bryopsis but not conidered as bad. The Taxifloia is highly invasive and regulated in many states.

 

The bryopsis that most people mean when they say bryopsis has much finer feathers than what you have.

 

 

That said, you probably don't want the caulerpa anchoring right next to your zoas. It will starve them of light.

[amphipod]

Pluck the caulpera fronds, and that is definitely aiptasia.

[metrokat]

Bryopsis. Suggest you throw out the frag. Or employ a Kent Tech M dosing regime.

[PilotMaximus]

Thanks everyone

[amphipod]

Thanks everyone

your welcome

[Steve973]

I agree that it is bryopsis. You probably don't have to throw it out. You can do a 50/50 mix of tank water and 3% hydrogen peroxide and soak it for 5 minutes. You could try this a few times (after the zoanthids open back up) and that will probably cure you of the briopsis pretty quickly, and possibly even after one treatment.

[Jellyingabout]

Looks like bryopsis to me. Tackle it quickly whatever you do because once it gets out of hand its almost impossible to get rid of.

 

I had it growing in a powerhead spreading spores everywhere, I had to dose kent marine tech mg to an unholy level to kill it of, which also sadly killed of most my inverts, and cut a big hole in my wallet.

[metrokat]

I agree that it is bryopsis. You probably don't have to throw it out. You can do a 50/50 mix of tank water and 3% hydrogen peroxide and soak it for 5 minutes. You could try this a few times (after the zoanthids open back up) and that will probably cure you of the briopsis pretty quickly, and possibly even after one treatment.

Peroxide kills the fronds but it comes back in 2 weeks. Guaranteed.

Looks like bryopsis to me. Tackle it quickly whatever you do because once it gets out of hand its almost impossible to get rid of.

 

I had it growing in a powerhead spreading spores everywhere, I had to dose kent marine tech mg to an unholy level to kill it of, which also sadly killed of most my inverts, and cut a big hole in my wallet.

Yup, High magnesium will kill inverts.

[Jellyingabout]

Yup, High magnesium will kill inverts.

 

Sadly it killed a gorgeous blue legged pistol shrimp that was in a pair but i have t admit after battling bryopsis for half a year before it it was just glad to be rid. It was a price i willingly paid.

 

I tried removing all my coral to a separate tank and cutting the lights for a month, I tried 50% w/c daily for weeks and every algae killer i could get my hands on, raising the mg, nothing worked the only thing that worked for me was kent marine mg specifically.

Dunno why, dunno how? but it did. The byopsis went brittle after about a week, my inverts started eating it but also started dying. but that was that.

 

Now whenever i see anything that looks even remotely like bryopsis I chip the rock away and bin it.

[metrokat]

Kent Tech M has an additive that works on bryopsis. It's not an additive specifically to kill bryopsis, more like a contaminant that just happens to be magical.

[Jellyingabout]

I never believed it did, I was just desperate to be rid of the evil stuff so i=I figured it can't hurt to try. dunno why kent tech don't isolate it and market the stuff.

[metrokat]

Good Q, so many would pay big bucks for it.

[Steve973]

For some reason, people insist that it's something other than the magnesium in Tech M that kills the bryopsis. But, of course, nobody knows what it is. Other people have also had luck with other magnesium supplements.

[Jellyingabout]

I personally have had no luck with other mg, only tech M

[metrokat]

For some reason, people insist that it's something other than the magnesium in Tech M that kills the bryopsis. But, of course, nobody knows what it is. Other people have also had luck with other magnesium supplements.

Like who? I've done "other" magnesium and not have it work. It is specifically Kent Tech M, you can google it and see nothing but results from this product for bryopsis.

I personally have had no luck with other mg, only tech M

yup.

[Steve973]

Ascribing something to the unknown, yet knowing nothing about that unknown, is akin to faith. I'm skeptical, and trust more in Occam's/Ockham's Razor. The ingredients in Tech M do not suggest a miracle bryopsis cure.

[amphipod]

Ascribing something to the unknown, yet knowing nothing about that unknown, is akin to faith.

. Faith is the assured expectation of what is hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities that are not seen. - Hebrews 11:1

[Steve973]

Faith is the belief in something for which there is no concrete evidence. So, until there is concrete evidence that there is something special and unnamed/unspecified in Tech M, I am going to believe that it has something to do with the stated ingredients.

[Jellyingabout]

Its a fish tank with some fuzzy green algae, I don't think you need to be thinking about theology and philosophy. Almost everyone who has had bryopsis has killed it off with kent tech M, everyone who's tried other mg has failed, including those of us who have tried both.

 

If you want to spit away good money on mg additives to try it out be my guest but the whole point of these forums is for us to pool together our knowledge.

[goobafish]

There are a few stalks of Calerpa growing amongst much more Bryopsis in that picture. Yes, that is an aptasia.

 

For targeted removal of macro algae on a removable piece in your tank, prepare a dip of 50% 3%(commercial) hydrogen peroxide and 50% tank water. Place the frag/rock in the bath for 3 minutes, and shake/stir. Rinse well with tank water before adding back to the display. Do this once every 4-5 days until its all gone. This is safe with all corals in my experience.

 

If you have bryopsis all-over your tank however, you are going to need to look into other solutions.

[CJJon]

Faith! Ha ha! I tell people all the time that faith is dangerous. Most people think I am crazy. After all, how can faith be a bad thing?

[amphipod]

Faith! Ha ha! I tell people all the time that faith is dangerous. Most people think I am crazy. After all, how can faith be a bad thing?

we have faith even when we don't even think of it, even atheists have to have faith that god is nonexistant. Everyone has faith in something, I can assure you.

[CJJon]

we have faith even when we don't even think of it, even atheists have to have faith that god is nonexistant. Everyone has faith in something, I can assure you.

 

Well, I have faith in nothing. Faith is a thing that bites you in your ass. I try to avoid having bites taken out of my ass--learned from too many years of hard bites.