kylekruko85 Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Any ideas on the what this feather looking stuff growing on my candy cane is. Kinda hard to see but it's in the center of the pic toward the base of the trunk Link to comment
brandon429 Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 much easy fix dip in peroxide right up to the flesh, hold for 2 mins, take out and put back in tank, algae dead by Monday. the flesh isn't dipped, its only the algae portion. a small cup would work well, just hold it in place a few mins with the base/algae sticking down into the liquid. do nothing to the tank or to the water. Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Bryopsis filaments have a feathery shape. Kill it now before it spreads. Link to comment
kylekruko85 Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 much easy fix dip in peroxide right up to the flesh, hold for 2 mins, take out and put back in tank, algae dead by Monday. the flesh isn't dipped, its only the algae portion. a small cup would work well, just hold it in place a few mins with the base/algae sticking down into the liquid. do nothing to the tank or to the water. Just your standard drug store hydrogen peroxide? What percent? Link to comment
brandon429 Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 No pct matters since it's not contacting the flesh check this thread out, use as high % as you want. http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/268706-peroxide-saves-my-tank-with-pics-to-prove-it/page-61 Link to comment
brandon429 Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Post your after pics 36 hrs later if you would, and I'll link this thread to two other big peroxide threads we like to demonstrate repeatability in the approach: Caulastrea corals are known tolerants to peroxide, but we contact none to the polyp The algae bleaches in 36 hrs typically Coral opened nicely, use a q tip to detail it up next to the polyp Growback varies, nobody says this cures all, growback prevention has many options. When they fail, repeat We made about 200 pages of combined examples doing just that, over and over. The skeleton will lighten up a little, color back in time depending on conditions. If this is bryopsis, then you are preventing purposeful farming of it and fragmentation into the greater tank by acting now. Same principle applies to a rock, should it develop a hitchhiker potential invader. The only time you go after the water and make large scale nutrient reactions is when a whole tank is invaded. For frag and small spot control, cheating force cleaning sure works Link to comment
kylekruko85 Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 I can definitely do that. Thanks for the help! Link to comment
ndrobey Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 You're going to have to get real close to the living coral tissue to get rid of all that algae. You will need a Q-Tip, dip it in the peroxide and carefully get the peroxide on the algae while avoiding the coral as much as possible. Link to comment
kylekruko85 Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 Dumb question but should a pull or scrub off whatever I can before the dip? Obviously that wont get rid of it on its own but it cant hurt right? Link to comment
brandon429 Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Yes that's good plan i do that before dips Link to comment
kylekruko85 Posted May 21, 2016 Author Share Posted May 21, 2016 Roughly 36 hours later. Looks a tons better. Either the peroxide revealed a different type of algae or discolored the original to this red/brown color. Link to comment
brandon429 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Excellent, there could be any number of subcommunities under it nice detail shot~ will link to the big threads for quick reference caulastrea cheat cleaning good detail run For thick infestations, the polyps won't open all the way when the algae takes up space on the edge of the corallite/septal ridge But removing it makes the flesh fill back over the sides and we didn't spend any time testing, reacting with water param changes, or even considering nutrients for a low level algae challenge thanks for posting those Link to comment
kylekruko85 Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 Just another update from today. This is still from only using peroxide the first time. Thanks for the info! Link to comment
brandon429 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I linked your thread here to our big threads nice job! It's a quick easy fix, which is against reefing rules heh Link to comment
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