Bryopsis in Fuge For Nutrient Export?

[sawdonkey]

I run a red (with a few blues) grow light over my fuge for about 16 hours per day. When I first set my tank back up, I noticed a couple of small patches of bryopsis in my rock. Well, that went away on its own, but now it is flourishing in my fuge and is nowhere to be found in my DT.

Should I continue letting it grow down there and use it as a nutrient exporter as I trim it?...or is the risk of it getting in my DT too high and I should just treat it with fluconazole?

Side note: my chaeto barely grows and my dragons breath grows only a little.

Thoughts?

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[sawdonkey]

By the way, this is the bryopsis I pulled out of my fuge last night. It’s about enough to fill a pint glass.

 

[Reefing Madness]

WOW, Nice!! Looks like its doing a good job, as long as it stays put

 

[Daniel@R2R]

I'd be afraid of it spreading to the DT

 

[ultimatemj]

I would not, it spreads way to easily for my comfort level. And IME it has a strange proclivity of coming back from nowhere when mag drops below 1300.

That said I wouldn’t jump to using meds on the tank either.

Just keep harvesting the bryopsis every day or two and get something else growing to out compete it.

I’m using a small ATS that churns out the hair algae~

 

[Reefing Madness]

Turf Scrubbers are an excellent choice

 

[oceanrider]

I had a bryopsis attack in my dispkay a few months ago. Could not even pull it out cause the roots are so firmly attached. Compared to hair algae etc. Finally I scrubbed the rocks. And one yellow tang removed area clean. And now my acropora overgrown it.


I would not use meds yet

I saw in your clump Hair algae. Bubble algae. And maybe bryopsis.
I would try to encourage growth of hair algae on a plate in sump. And also chaeto. I would try a different light bulb Chaeto also has to be turned once in a whole

Hope you have a tang in display. They will keep all algae down to minimum