Is this Bryopsis?

[JJKK]

This rock had a few featherdusters on it and I originally thought it was a featherduster when it was growing out. But now I know it is an algae of some sort. Can anyone ID? Bryopsis?

The urchin does not eat it. It was alot blue-ish color when it was smaller. Now it is blackish with some green hair algae mixed in there.

Thanks for the diagnosis.

 

[ndrwater]

Doesn't look like it, but another potentially invasive species

 

[JJKK]

Doesn't look like it, but another potentially invasive species

Thanks for the input. Trying to figure it out so I can find a way to remedy. I guess, I can always try to rip it out and scrub.

 

[ndrwater]

Manuar removal is a good start. Do you have any tangs? Do they touch it?

 

[JJKK]

I just pulled the rock and put it in another tank where I have a whitetail bristletooth, juv purple tang and juv Desjardini sailfin tang in observation. No meds in that tank. I will see if they touch it.

If not, I was thinking of trying fluconazole in the smaller tank QT tank when the tangs are ready to go up to the DT.

 

[Heneee11]

I’ve got the same, I thought it was bryopsis and about to dose Fluconazole, not sure what to do now if it’s not bryopsis.

 

[Ultra Aquatics]

Looks like bryopsis to me, can clearly see the fern like leaves when zoomed in.