Bryopsis, Not a pretty picture - Page 2

Silverfish · #1 05-01-2002, 01:23 AM

Howdy lads, thought I'd jump in. I seem to have a red type of bryopsis in my tank, along with some really tough reddish hair algae. The bryopsis (looks like bryopsis from the pics I saw on RC when I did a search) is not too bad yet :rolleyes: , but I want to nip it in the bud before you know what. The hair algae has gone nuts though, and I am battling both the same way.

I use boiling water mostly to nuke the stuff. I was using a turkey baster, but it is hard to get into the tank without it all shooting out everywhere first. Today I tried a small syringe with a piece of that "milky white" 1/4" tube on the end. I shot the algaes with boiling water and it works great. I am going to Industrial Plastics tomorrow to get a big syringe (thought I saw some there) so I can really blast em!

I wonder if a boiling kalk mix would work? Might try that too.

BTW, the bryopsis I have looks like little ferns, I didn't know there were other types. My emeralds totally munch on the hair, but not the Bryopsis.

Samw · #2 05-02-2002, 04:18 AM

Well, I spent until 3am yesterday scrubbing rocks. At least the tank looks better now. Unfortunately, once you pull rocks out of your tank, you can forget where to put them back. Tried to zap-gel some blue mushrooms onto the rock underwater. Not working well. I might have to pull the rock out again to glue mushrooms on.

I bought 4 more emeralds and 3 lettuce nudis. The emeralds immediately started eating the hair algae stubs from the rock as soon as I dropped them into the tank.

christyf5 · #3 05-02-2002, 05:13 PM

Wow, that looks soo much better. Wanna come over to my place and scrub my rocks?? My algae is out of control too. Its so frustrating. I'm thinking about starting over with all new rock.

Christy [img]smile.gif[/img]

PS. When you say "scrubbed the rocks" what are you using to scrub them with?? Thanks!

Samw · #4 05-03-2002, 02:13 AM

It wasn't too bad. Only 3 large rocks. The hardest part is trying to rearrange them when you put it back in. It'll never look the same as before. I used a toothbrush.

[ 02 May 2002, 22:13: Message edited by: Sam W ]