Annoying thick red algae!
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fwadiver
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turbo will not eat it, this is dictyota only 2 things that will eat it are a 2 barred rabbit fish or a naso tang. An emerald crab may eat it, but more than likely will not touch it. When i had this on my system i had to do a combination of peroxide and algea fix to get rid of it which nearly crashed my system, certainly killed off a large portion of my microfauna. that stuff is the devil. It survives and thrives in low nutrient water, and puts down runners which are almost impossible to remove by hand.
ColaAddict
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Research peroxide dosing. Anything you can take out, you should dip in peroxide to kill them
fwadiver
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peroxide will only weaken it, it turns orange for about 2 weeks then new 'leaves' spring up off the runners.
TangPolice
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As mentioned the Turbo will not touch it
Those treatments are correct, the two-barred siganus doliatus and standard naso tang for dictyota.
However, I do not believe that is dictyota. Dictyota is a brown algae which is why most algae eating fish cannot digest it properly. Red is usually the easiest to digest. The growth pattern also looks completely different.
Dictyota:
If you purchase the extra live liverock (looks straight from the ocean) from Coral Reef, there is a very good chance this algae hitchhiked on the rock. Remove it as soon as possible.
My ld 57g used to by COVERED with dictyota, pulling out a handful a day. The algae does not need nutrients or light to survive. People blacked out their tank for months, and it was still there. Didnt grow, but didnt die at all. Started growing as son as the lights came on.
I purchased a two-barred which absolutely devastated the algae in two weeks and it never came back.
Sorry I can't be more help, I am not sure exactly what this is. What size tank it is?
However, I do not believe that is dictyota. Dictyota is a brown algae which is why most algae eating fish cannot digest it properly. Red is usually the easiest to digest. The growth pattern also looks completely different.
Dictyota:
If you purchase the extra live liverock (looks straight from the ocean) from Coral Reef, there is a very good chance this algae hitchhiked on the rock. Remove it as soon as possible.
My ld 57g used to by COVERED with dictyota, pulling out a handful a day. The algae does not need nutrients or light to survive. People blacked out their tank for months, and it was still there. Didnt grow, but didnt die at all. Started growing as son as the lights came on.
I purchased a two-barred which absolutely devastated the algae in two weeks and it never came back.
Sorry I can't be more help, I am not sure exactly what this is. What size tank it is?
Are you sure its not gracilaria curtissae:
Or maybe even nemastoma (more 'bubbly'):
Not sure 'Red dictyota' is a species, its just a description of an algae that looks like regular dictyota, that happens to be red. Unlike corals, color for algae kinda matters. I looked everywhere and cant find the scientific name for 'red dictyota'.
Then again, heres the list if you want to click through it lol.
http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=51&-session=abv4:62DC9D3413c112D2C6nQM3E672C1
Treatment for whatever it is can by the same as dictyota. Those two fish are notorious for eating ANY algae that most fish would never touch.
Or maybe even nemastoma (more 'bubbly'):
Not sure 'Red dictyota' is a species, its just a description of an algae that looks like regular dictyota, that happens to be red. Unlike corals, color for algae kinda matters. I looked everywhere and cant find the scientific name for 'red dictyota'.
Then again, heres the list if you want to click through it lol.
http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=51&-session=abv4:62DC9D3413c112D2C6nQM3E672C1
Treatment for whatever it is can by the same as dictyota. Those two fish are notorious for eating ANY algae that most fish would never touch.
JLee1469
Member
Thanks for the responses guys.
I bought the LR from Reef Wise although I don't think it came from it. I've been adding frags from Aqua Pros and Reef Wise if it somehow hitchhiked on a plug. A lot of rock have some zoas and a monti cap encrusting on it. Also sucks to see runners on my nice frogspawn colony. scotty said a mithrax crab will take care of it although google says mixed results. Searching also said yellow tang can chow down but this is all in a Biocube 29. So frustrating! I think I might just tear this tank down and focus on my 40br.
I bought the LR from Reef Wise although I don't think it came from it. I've been adding frags from Aqua Pros and Reef Wise if it somehow hitchhiked on a plug. A lot of rock have some zoas and a monti cap encrusting on it. Also sucks to see runners on my nice frogspawn colony. scotty said a mithrax crab will take care of it although google says mixed results. Searching also said yellow tang can chow down but this is all in a Biocube 29. So frustrating! I think I might just tear this tank down and focus on my 40br.
frostyjay1
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Sucks that it happened to you. I got different types of algea from frags also, so now I triple check over everything,, and try to not use the plugs. I keep rubble rock around, and since the glue is new it comes off easy, I glue the frag to the rock. For future reference.
moon jelly
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is it possible that you put a small foxface into the tank for a while (til algae is gone) then sell the fish? mine ate almost all the different algae except for bryopsis.