What is this stuff?

[gofastinc]

I rescued a nano last week and found these red bubbles all over the LR. Is it cyano or something else? How do you get rid of it?
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[lilrobb]

Red Bubble Algae

 

[raz0945]

+1 You want to get it out as soon as possible and keep an eye out for more. Try not to pop it! Holley

LilRobb;739882 wrote: Red Bubble Algae

 

[krcraig1]

I have some of this in my sump. Following...


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[gofastinc]

I took all of the rocks out of the nano and isolated them to a 5gal tank as soon as I got it. The tank is in a very dark place, I figured that was a start. How do I get rid of it?

 

[dine]

i believe emerald crabs will eat it?

 

[add540]

1. Manual removal of the problem alga
2. Suppression via appropriate herbivores.... turbo snail, Emerald and Ruby Mithrax Crabs will eat it
3. Denial of resources...Nutrient suppression & light



Get em small, cover them with a baster, scrape the baster along the rock, when the bubble comes off release the plunger and suck it up. Discard and repeat. If you have a lot to do, by the time you are done you will be ready to add new mixed water to complete the water change. Be aggressive with your manual removal.

 

[ldagger]

I have had this before in my sump. I do not think it is as bad as the green ones, but I do not know that for sure. It should come off in bunches if you are gentle and can then just pick it out, best time to do this is during a water change with hose in tank, your pipe can be used to suck away the smaller ones that you knock free, the larger ones just hand/net gather. They are easier to deal with than alot of other algae problems.
With good flow and clean water they will disappear over time.

 

[gofastinc]

There are hundreds of them. The tank is in a dark place and won't get any food for a while. I dumped about 100 sanils in there, but they have a lot of work ahead. I will start the manual removal this weekend. Everything is isolated to a 5gal tank now so water changes should be easy.

 

[gofastinc]

Because the LR had more bad stuff on them than good stuff I started with a dremel tool and a cut off disk. My plan was to cut off the good stuff and throw out the bad with the LR. Those dremel disks smap like potato chips so I got out the die grinder with a 3" cut off wheel. Like a hot knife through butter... I managed to save about 80% of the good stuff, the other 20% was surronded by the bubble algee and I didn't want to risk it. Thanks to all for the advice.