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What type of algae is this? Regular gha ?

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It’s very hard to pull. It have very strong roots. Toothbrush have no effect. Pulling my hand only works with limited success. Most effective tool is a bone tweezers.

Bubble forms everyday. It thrive near the coral bacause urchin cannot get to it.

I’m still battling cyno so no intention to dose anything right now. Any idea what I’m dealing with?
 

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Can you clarify the picture? It looks like cyano or dinos that are brown, also producing the bubbles, and are on top of another algae that you're referring to. I think you're asking about the underlying algae.

I assume you can turkey baster off the cyano/dinos to get a clearer picture of the other algae?
 
richiev said:
Can you clarify the picture? It looks like cyano or dinos that are brown, also producing the bubbles, and are on top of another algae that you're referring to. I think you're asking about the underlying algae.

I assume you can turkey baster off the cyano/dinos to get a clearer picture of the other algae?
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After blowing off with turkey baster
 

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Better pic
 

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Make sure to overdose reef flux as 2-3 weeks at the recommended dose only knocked my Bryopsis all the way back. I am now re treating my tank.
 
I would stop all bottled treatments of everything, and use some elbow grease and some vaired herbivores and epoxy. IMO, you are blasting the system with different treatments and IME that opens the system up to new problems, and very much slows down the efforts of the system to stabalize. I also think you have multiple things going on. Also, feel free to ignore me. :D
Can you post a Full tank shot so I can try to be more helpful?
 
Whether you are going to treat with fluconazole or treat with herbivores/epoxy, you are going to have to start by putting in a lot of time and elbow grease removing as much as possible by hand. You’ve already mentioned it is tough and you can’t really remove the base; this is one of the aspects of bryopsis that makes the traditional approaches to treating other types of algae like manual removal and herbivores not work as well.

I don’t know of good herbivores for bryopsis specifically. Most of the good ones we all mention for GHA and other more common algae types don’t eat bryopsis in my experience. Some have speculated it‘s because their tissue is much tougher than other macroalgae types. Maybe @Thales has suggestions for bryopsis herbivores.

I also agree to not continue other chemical treatments you might be doing like for cyano, which is a pain but overall much more easily dealt with by traditional methods and less risk to your tank than bryopsis.
 
Good point. Not going to add any chemicals. I have live with the algae for over a year. Not looking for a quick fix.

A couple of coral react negatively to the chemiclean. Arg.. nothing is really safe I assume.

Doing more WC to see if that helps
 
first couple pics looks like dino. what are your nutrients at? look into running a uv.

as for bryosis, u can slowly increase mag to 1500 and let it sit there for awhile. it will kill it naturally without dosing any chemicals.

in mean time, work on balancing your nutrients, get some good clean up crew, and continue regular husbandry.
 
jhuynh said:
as for bryosis, u can slowly increase mag to 1500 and let it sit there for awhile. it will kill it naturally without dosing any chemicals.
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That didn't hold up over time. Looks like it was a byproduct of something in Tech-M that seemed to work sometimes, but then seemed to stop working all together. I tried it a few times before Tech-M is said to have changed formulation and it didn't impact bryopsis at all.
 
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