Oh !@#$%!

[Sushiman]

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

[kellehar]

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

[Sushiman]

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

[Bartman]

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

[lil_clownfish13]

so why is bryopsis so bad?

[mr_alberta]

It grows quickly, spreads faster , 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.

[Sushiman]

Originally Posted by mr_alberta

It grows quickly, spreads faster , 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.

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

[Sushiman]

Originally Posted by lil_clownfish13

so why is bryopsis so bad?

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.

[Bartman]

Originally Posted by Sushiman

In my reef tank it was only the addition of sea urchins to my clean up crew that finally conqured it.

What kind of urchins did you add?