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There is another little stalk of it next to it.
I guess it's grown pretty fast.

This is my little refugium.
excuse the cyano. New sand...
 

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There is another little stalk of it next to it.
I guess it's grown pretty fast.

This is my little refugium.
excuse the cyano. New sand...
In the pic below, Looks like Derbesia which is one of the more challenging of algae due to need of its complete removal. Removal is best accomplished by taking the rock out of tank and placing in a container of tank water. Then you will want to pull as much as you can by hand and discard. With a dental pick or small crochet needle, pull the roots off the rock. YOU MUST GET EVERY ROOT OR IT WILL SIMPLY RETURN !!
After you are done return rock to tank and reduce white light intensity and even hours of white light and add the following cleaners which will help with control. These guys will consume bryopsis but not as fast as bryopsis can grow - They will never keep up.
Pin cushion urchin, Chiton snails, pitho crabs, and larger astrea snails

This procedure is not as bad or time consuming as it seems. Assure phosphate levels do not become elevated which helps feed this algae

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In the pic below, Looks like Derbesia which is one of the more challenging of algae due to need of its complete removal. Removal is best accomplished by taking the rock out of tank and placing in a container of tank water. Then you will want to pull as much as you can by hand and discard. With a dental pick or small crochet needle, pull the roots off the rock. YOU MUST GET EVERY ROOT OR IT WILL SIMPLY RETURN !!
After you are done return rock to tank and reduce white light intensity and even hours of white light and add the following cleaners which will help with control. These guys will consume bryopsis but not as fast as bryopsis can grow - They will never keep up.
Pin cushion urchin, Chiton snails, pitho crabs, and larger astrea snails

This procedure is not as bad or time consuming as it seems. Assure phosphate levels do not become elevated which helps feed this algae

harbor Freight:

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I see... I'll just shut down the refugium till I can get some cheato or something. All I have over it is a Walmart 6500k bulb.

I'll remove the frag rock completely and just kill everything on it. There us a aptasia on it too.
I was thinking the stuff was gha. Glad I at least found out it's not.
I do have a urching many many turbos and nassiiaius along with others. Then the rabbit fish and tang.
 

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I see... I'll just shut down the refugium till I can get some cheato or something. All I have over it is a Walmart 6500k bulb.

I'll remove the frag rock completely and just kill everything on it. There us a aptasia on it too.
I was thinking the stuff was gha. Glad I at least found out it's not.
I do have a urching many many turbos and nassiiaius along with others. Then the rabbit fish and tang.
Fish wont eat it as its too strandy and urchins, etc cannot keep up with its growth rate
 

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