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Please help identify this algae!

Antioch Reefers

Antioch Reefers

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Hello all,

Can anyone please identify this algae and the best method for removal. This would be greatly appreciated!

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In the picture you can see the algae is growing rapidly. Please ignore the clown fish, he is an attention seeker!

Thanks,

Antioch Reefers
 
Hey, looks like my tank.
:-(
At least it is not the really nasty Bryopsis plumosa, that looks like a fern.

Herbivores, nutrient reduction, macro algae to compete. The usual.
Or, ignore it and let it get worse while you work on a bigger algae growing tank.
 
Wow! you can almost see it growing.
water changes.
Test for nitrates and phosphates.
Don't over feed.
Reduce lighting.
 
Raising mag to 1500-1600 for 1 week did the trick for me.

edit: found the original thread that I followed

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1113109&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

double edit: It did kind of come back, SOMETHING in my tank is eating it I'm not sure what, the only places I have it now are my power heads and my frag racks.
 
The stringyness, the fine structure. Bryopsis has a thicker main stalk and turf algae has a wiry structure, also neither of them clump and shed like hail algae.
 
tuberider said:
The stringyness, the fine structure. Bryopsis has a thicker main stalk and turf algae has a wiry structure, also neither of them clump and shed like hail algae.
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I hates me some hail algae...it keeps my heater on all the time!
 
jestersix said:
tuberider said:
The stringyness, the fine structure. Bryopsis has a thicker main stalk and turf algae has a wiry structure, also neither of them clump and shed like hail algae.
Click to expand...

I hates me some hail algae...it keeps my heater on all the time!
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It broke my heater. Smashed it to pieces :(
 
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