Bryopsis

[Burning2nd]

Anyone have any experenance with this suff?

Ive bin fighing it for a long time,

REmoveing it manual is out of the question, i wish i would have left it the way it was, nice and small little circle. now its all over the place.

I have done anything and everything i think you guys will post.

water changes
light
tests


my water is perfict, 8.2, 0, 0, 0, 420,1370, 2.5 meg/l at 79.5 degree.

starveing it out will be impossabul with out removeing all inhabs or killing them in the starveing.

some people say boil the rock, i dont know what that means. other say nuke. or start over.

Im leaning to the start over button soon.

anyone have this problem with this fern like Bryopsis?

[Reefland]

Hi Burning2nd,

I don't think what you have is actually Bryopsis, which may be a blessing because Bryopsis is very difficult to rid.

[Burning2nd]

Im haveing no luck geting rid of this stuff, you touch it, it gets bigger.

ive tried all

starveing it

removeing it

removieng and bushing

the only thing i have luck with so far is geting it to grow in the sump

[Reefland]

Can you get a closer picture of the nuisance algae you have?

[Burning2nd]

ya hold on


its looking bad today cause this morning i did 2 water changes (as i suck the water out i grab and pinch it off and out the tube)

[Burning2nd]

not in order none of thos are from 2day

[Reefland]

http://www.reefland.com/rho/0905/medprod6.php
http://www.reefland.com/rho/1105/medprod7.php
http://www.reefland.com/rho/0106/medprod8.php

[Burning2nd]

here is just a few min ago, after attacking it (ageain) this morning.


IVe bin on this thing like white on rice and its kicking my azz



im prity sure thats what it is

[Burning2nd]

good info, but doesnt tell me anything i dont already know.

i cant id the sorce, my RODI water says 0TDS im testing 0 ppm for phosphate.

but maybe its undetectbul

[Reefland]

It looks like a mix of different types to me. How old is the system? Obviously the nutrients you are testing for could be undetectable due to the algae consuming it quickly. How often do you feed?

[Burning2nd]

its only 6 months old, thats what i was told about the nutrients, there geting stucked up so fast you cant detect em.

I was feeding frozen brine and mysis+krill way to often i backed off completely. none i feed forumula one, pellets every other day, (started that 2 weeks ago i think) water changes weekly and now, i feed only enough to get to the mouths of my fish, trying not to let any get by to the rocks and stuff.

b4 i was sorta dumping it in i think, makeing sure that everyone was geting something, the shrimps molted a bunch of times, and that when this problem started about 3 months ago.

[Reefland]

It sounds like you are on the right track. Continue to perform agressive water changes, limit the feeding and manually extract and you will beat it. There is no solution that will quickly fix this, it will take time and persistence.

[Burning2nd]

ya, from what ive read, and bin told. But ill tell ya what sometime i feel like it would be eazyer to start over then to keep at this.

just needed a little reinforcement, to keep me going. thanks

Im sure to post later when i figer it all out

[Reefland]

There is still a problem present if if you restarted, as "global" of an answer as it sounds, it's all about finding the source.

[Burning2nd]

ya,

I have the DM2 TDS monitor, Im geting a 0 ppm on the outlet side, that means theres nothing right?

[Burning2nd]

the sick part is that ive went thur a 55 lb bucket of salt in about 3 months

and i only have max of 30+shy 10 so figer 37 gal