Algae ID please
 

Quite a bit of this green stalk like algae is growing on my LR. Personally it's a nuisance algae for me because it's a pain to remove. What is it called and what's the best way to remove it.

Thanks

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/a...beAlgae001.jpg

Neomeris Annulata (spindle weed) Besides plucking or cooking your rock I'm not sure how to get rid of it.

at least it's pretty !
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/annulata.html

It's HORRIFYINGLY pretty in that link.

Many thanks for the replies.

I had some in my system and was actually trying to encourage it to grow. Something kept nipping at it once it got a certain size though and I haven't seen any in a while. I suspect the nipper was a mithrax crab, but unable to confirm, never saw the dirty deed being done. Happened overnight to the best of my knowledge.

I also have a scrap of Halimeda trying to make a go of it, but my female Maroon Clownfish seems to have an issue with it. As soon as one or two of the branches reach a certain size, she tears it up.

It takes over a tank in no time but I found my pepermint shrinp likes it.

Bill

I find it comes and goes. Not sure what conditions it likes but I'll have one or two spring up in the tank and then disappear a month or so later never to be seen again (in the same place anyways).

Peppermint Shrimp eh? I've been considering adding one to my aquarium but I'm afraid of starving the little guy since I have only one aiptasia in my tank.

Peppermint shrimp are scavengers. They do not need aptasia to survive. They "help" to control your aptasia. So you would'nt be starving it if you were to introduce one to your tank.

when I had rock with this stuff on it it had aptasia also and the peppermint shrimp was added to get ride of that well after getting rid of the aptasia they also got ride of the algae. by the way that algae is a kind of Halimeda algae.

Bill