Woke up to tank-o-cloudy Argggg

[ralph atl]

Apparently, my "maidens hair" udotea sp. spawned last night. Skimmer overflowing, green crap all over sump, and I couldn't see the other side of tank.

I guess it didn't like me pulling out some of that crap last night. I just did a water change yesterday, so I made up some water this morning for tonite.

Unfortunately, I'm at work. I changed carbon, gfo, got skimmer going, blah, blah.

I think my 4 year old urchin bit it. So far my clowns, Christmas wrasse, shrimp, snails, hermits, all are good. I don't know about my other wrasses as they don't get up until 10:30 to 11:00.

All my coral look pissed, but only my orange crush acan slimed. All others just have their polyps retracted. No bleaching.

Huge bacterial bloom. I guess I need to be more agressive in getting rid of this calcifying algae. It's leftover from my pipes.

I might need to nuke it with glue, change out rock(what about encrusted sps?), or nuke with Daves formula or kalk. I'll pull what I can. Hummmm.

I hope all is good at home, but the wifey isn't so reef friendly, lol.

 

[ralph atl]

Just talked to the wife, clearing up some....both potters and MM Leopards up and about. Cool.

 

[lilrobb]

Maiden's Hair is in the Caulerpa family, Udotea is:

In http://www.atlantareefclub.org/wiki/Alpha_taxonomy"><span style="color: #0645ad">taxonomy</span></a>, the [B]Udoteaceae[/B] are a [IMG]http://www.atlantareefclub.org/wiki/Family_(biology)"><span style="color: #0645ad">family</span></a> of [IMG]http://www.atlantareefclub.org/wiki/Algae"><span style="color: #0645ad">algae</span></a>, specifically of the [IMG]http://www.atlantareefclub.org/wiki/Bryopsidales"><span style="color: #0645ad">Bryopsidales</span></a>

So, which is it?

 

[ralph atl]

Udotea

 

[ralph atl]

Here's what it looks like:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=17909438">http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=17909438</a>

Those grey and white "sticks" were all out yesterday, so I kinda expected it soon.

 

[mvm]

I think it's maiden's fan, right?

 

[ralph atl]

MvM;583667 wrote: I think it's maiden's fan, right?

That's it! Lol

 

[ralph atl]

Text from wife:

Tank looks great almost clear

 

[ralph atl]

all is clear, even the Urchin made it.

Only issues are that a Blue Voodoo stag has somewhat bleached (and the Garf is a little lighter) and the blue millie doesn't have it's polyps extended..............whew!
stressful, though!

:yay:

 

[brianjfinn]

Glad to hear it Ralph! That had to be really stressful.

 

[ralph atl]

I changed out 22 pounds of fiji rock with 12 pounds of dead fiji.....changing some rocks out is easier than I thought.

 

[acroholic]

Glad to hear everything is recovering Ralph.