Bryopsis or Hair?

[redfishbluefish]

I've been plagued with a bit of an algae problem from a number of faux pas I had.....one after the other....resulting in high nitrates and phosphates. I've now gotten the N's and P's under control, and have been manually removing, but am still afflicted by what I thought was hair algae. As I was noodling around the internet, I found that hair algae is a general term for any filamentous algae. I also found info that stated some hair algae are actually one of the species of Bryopsis. I know this in not the typical fern like bryopsis (Bryopsis pennata and B. plumosa), but is this still one of the other "hair" byropsis:




I want this to be bryopsis so that I can watch it die from a single dose of fluconazole!!!! 14 days and gone!

So what do you algae experts think?

 

[PaulKreider]

I think bryopsis, if the tips of each "strand" look like a comb or split ends it's bryopsis.

 

[40B Knasty]

Sea Hare $30. Return it when it is done eating it all. 1 demolished a bad out break I had in 6 days. Plus he is a cool little critter to watch. If you don't they will bomb your tank with a purple dye like a squid.

 

[prsnlty]

I've been plagued with a bit of an algae problem from a number of faux pas I had.....one after the other....resulting in high nitrates and phosphates. I've now gotten the N's and P's under control, and have been manually removing, but am still afflicted by what I thought was hair algae. As I was noodling around the internet, I found that hair algae is a general term for any filamentous algae. I also found info that stated some hair algae are actually one of the species of Bryopsis. I know this in not the typical fern like bryopsis (Bryopsis pennata and B. plumosa), but is this still one of the other "hair" byropsis:




I want this to be bryopsis so that I can watch it die from a single dose of fluconazole!!!! 14 days and gone!

So what do you algae experts think?

Fluconazole takes a little longer but will also kill gha [emoji12] put some hydrogen peroxide in with it and see if it turns it white overnight. If it doesn't it's not green hair algae. I had bryopsis also that looks very similar to yours that I mistook for green hair algae. It's just not the same species with the fronds.

 

[prsnlty]

Also if you have a ton of it and you're going to go the route of fluconazole I would definitely pull it first before dosing as much as you can. This will knock it out faster