Oh !@#$%!
 

I see a war coming, just over the horizon...the dreaded Bryopsis is coming to my tank. I've spotted two or three miniscule sprigs of the God awful stuff popped up on some staghorn coral. I fought this in my old reeftank & it was horrible. The only way I beat it last time was thanks to my urchins. I don't know if that will work in this tank though, between the puffer and the snowflake let's just say things are not all that urchin friendly. Anyone fought this stuff in a FOWLR system sucessfully?

my snowflake doesn't touch my urchins (4 tuxedo's of them differant sizes) but when i had a really bad infestation of bryopsis i was told to raise the ph level to 8.6 area - it slowed it down but didn't get rid of it - ended up taking out alot of the rock and doing a quick pressure wash on them to clean them off. Was worried it would send my no2 and no3 out the roof but they didn't change from 0. (guess its like a quick fresh water dip) Finally got rid of the bryopsis by having a fire in the house - drawback was it also got rid of everything else :( If you only have it on a couple rocks why risk a full on spreading - take them out - just my personal preferance after not winning the last battle. I am sure some one has won the battle and can share.

Thanks for the input, I'll take the decorative piece out & nuke it in diluted bleach.

I had a snowflake and a small spotted puffer with a pencil urchin and never once did they touch it. the Urchin is now living in geopods tank since I down graded

War's over. I won. Shock & Awe.

Bryopsis
 

So.......how did you win?

so why is bryopsis so bad?

It grows quickly, spreads faster :eek:, roots into the rock so its hard to remove without scrubbing (and often comes back even after the fact) and very few things eat it as it is poisonous to them.

This is the dark side of nuisance algae because so few critters are able to eat the stuff. It grows fast & spreads over everything before you know it. In my reef tank it was only the addition of sea urchins to my clean up crew that finally conqured it. In my predator tank, my puffer chowed down on the stuff relentlessly & I was lucky enough to have the worst of it on a new piece of decorative coral so a diluted bleach soak killed it off & I've seen no new flare up's since.

scrubbing actually can compound the issue as this evil stuff regenerates from every little spec.