Feather looking algae on Candy Cane

[kylekruko85]

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

[brandon429]

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.

[natalia_la_loca]

Bryopsis filaments have a feathery shape. Kill it now before it spreads.

[kylekruko85]

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?

[brandon429]

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

[brandon429]

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

[kylekruko85]

I can definitely do that. Thanks for the help!

[ndrobey]

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.

[kylekruko85]

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?

[brandon429]

Yes that's good plan i do that before dips

[kylekruko85]

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.

[brandon429]

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

[kylekruko85]

Just another update from today. This is still from only using peroxide the first time. Thanks for the info!

[brandon429]

I linked your thread here to our big threads nice job! It's a quick easy fix, which is against reefing rules heh