Can someone ID this for me please? Bubble algae maybe? Thanks
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Bubble ID help
- Thread starter Steve Burton
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Looks like bubble Algea. I would pull the plug and scrub it in tank water inside of a container. Then rise in another container of sat water. It may take a few times to get it all. Try your best not to ever puncture those bubbles in your tank as it will spead like crazy. A foxface lo or other foxface fish will usually eat the bubbles. Sometimes emerald crabs will work as well. They arent nearly as effective though.
Great, thanks, you confirmed what I was planning with the scrubbing, think I'll transfer to my frag tank too since it has a couple emeralds.
Awesome. It ususally pops up in higer nutrient systems. You may want to do a quick check on your water parameters and adjust accordingly.
Thanks, I doubt that's the problem though, is in a fishless tank that only gets a little reef chili once a week, nitrates close to zero phosphates .06. I think it came in on the frag plug and it's taken months to grow 2 bubbles
No doubt Im sure thats it.
I'be popped open too many bubbles of bubble algae to count while cutting them off rocks and sucking them out with vacuum tubing. I currently have ZERO bubble algae.
Between manual removal and 1 emerald crab it is completely gone.
I don't believe popping the polyps is as dangerous as we have been led to believe. Perhaps during a very short and specific time frame - but it certainly did not cause a faster spread in my tank.
Between manual removal and 1 emerald crab it is completely gone.
I don't believe popping the polyps is as dangerous as we have been led to believe. Perhaps during a very short and specific time frame - but it certainly did not cause a faster spread in my tank.
I'm more of a don't take chances guy, remove frag plug and popped off the two bubbles, (neither one broke) and scrubbed the plug in a separate container of tank water, then put the plugin my frag tank where I have a couple emerald crabs. Thanks everyone.
