What will eat this algae? Pix inside.

[Anonymous]

You are looking at the red/purple macro algae between the two yellow neptheas?

What eats it? Thanks!

I can't tell what it is or what would eat it. Yellow tangs didn't before though.

 

[Anonymous]

i'm not sure what that is. do you have any crabs in your tank? my sally lightfoot has eaten all the macro off my live rock.

 

[Anonymous]

I had hermits. They don't work. Neither does mithrax that I know of. Any other suggestions?

 

[Carpentersreef]

Looks like something my foxface would like. I don't have ANY macro left in my main tank.

 

[monkeyboy]

Thats nice looking macroalgae, why do you want anything to eat it???

 

[Anonymous]

Because it is infiltrating every hard surface, and it attaches even to coral skeletons and then bothers the polyps. And it impedes growth of my coralline.

Want some of it? I have no earthly idea where it came from.

 

[cstar@work]

I've got good news and bad news,
my lemonpeel loves that stuff.

But most people wouldn't want to risk a "picker" like that in thier tank.

It's an option though, if your corals are already suffering that badly. Perhaps you should investigate bowrrowing one?

 

[davelin315]

I'll take some of that stuff, I'm trying to get as many macro algaes as I can for my refugium. I would also try an urchin, but I'm not a big urchin fan, as I have found that they also eat soft corals and polyps, no matter how reef safe they are supposed to be.

 

[jmeader]

It looks to me like a green macro that has become coraline encrusted. I think your best bet for something to eat it would be a sea urchin. A sally lightfoot would probably eat it before it becomes coraline encrusted, not sure about after. I've had some of my caulerpa become coraline encrusted, but just in patches, not as completely as in your pic.

 

[Anonymous]

It's definitely not corraline encrusted, that's how it grows. You can even see the pinkish relief in the blades.

I'm thinking foxface or some type of tang.

 

[Anonymous]

I had the same stuff when I had my 29 gallon reef and I wasn't so sure it was a plant. I thought it was some sort of bacteria cluster. I do not know of anything that eats it. But I did remove it easily with my hands. Grabbing it by most of the stalks,it is easily removed in one stroke. The base and all comes along with the stalks.

Dan

 

[Anonymous]

It is probably of the genus Chrysymenia which is a red algae. I would take a sample to your LFS if they have a good selection of algae eaters and don't mind it in their tanks and see what eats it then buy whatever that does =)

Or just crop it out by hand. It either came in on your LR or on a piece of substrate with a wild coral.

 

[Anonymous]

Mickav8r, that's the best idea i've ever heard!!!

Take it to the store and see what eats it!!

Thanks for the suggesstion. Time now to go spend some money.

---Brian

PS Glenn, you don't mind do you?