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In the past 2 months I have been slowly transferring everything from 3 smaller reefs to a 93 cube. All LR was carefully scrubbed, rinsed, and inspected thoroughly even though it came from my own tanks running for 1+ years to avoid anything getting in the new tank. Rock is pretty much just scattered around the 93 as I want to wait on my aquascape and give the rock some time to see if anything such as HA tried to pop up. I'm glad I did it this way too. Long story short...a small piece of LR that is from my oldest tank and NEVER shown ANY algaes began growing small tufts after about a month in the 93. After a week or so of growth, I started detecting a fern appearance to the tufts. Friggin' BRYOPSIS:mad2: It could be a macro as I have several variaties here and there....but I decided to not even wait to see. Only a tiny patch on a small rock so I planned to just chunk it.
It was late when I decided to not take a chance on it being bryopsis so off to bed I went with dreams of throwing the rock in the garbage the next morning in my head. Went downstairs the next morning and wouldn't you know....my pink BTA that had been perfectly happy for a month moved literally corner to corner and was attached to this small rock. Joker wouldn't let go by any of my normal tricks so I just flipped the rock over and buried the small patch in the sand (the nem was kinda on the edge so he's still safe and happy). Of course the nem hasn't moved but the lack of light should take care of whatever this algae is....but come'on....how much luck can a guy have in one day:boo:
Like I said, I don't even know if it is bryopsis, but with all the horror stories on here I'm not chancing it. Don't understand why after such a long time in my tanks it's just now shown up (nothing new in any of my tanks for a very long time). While bryopsis and mobile BTA's are both individually irritating, when they work together it just throws me into a whole different level of PO'ed
In the past 2 months I have been slowly transferring everything from 3 smaller reefs to a 93 cube. All LR was carefully scrubbed, rinsed, and inspected thoroughly even though it came from my own tanks running for 1+ years to avoid anything getting in the new tank. Rock is pretty much just scattered around the 93 as I want to wait on my aquascape and give the rock some time to see if anything such as HA tried to pop up. I'm glad I did it this way too. Long story short...a small piece of LR that is from my oldest tank and NEVER shown ANY algaes began growing small tufts after about a month in the 93. After a week or so of growth, I started detecting a fern appearance to the tufts. Friggin' BRYOPSIS:mad2: It could be a macro as I have several variaties here and there....but I decided to not even wait to see. Only a tiny patch on a small rock so I planned to just chunk it.
It was late when I decided to not take a chance on it being bryopsis so off to bed I went with dreams of throwing the rock in the garbage the next morning in my head. Went downstairs the next morning and wouldn't you know....my pink BTA that had been perfectly happy for a month moved literally corner to corner and was attached to this small rock. Joker wouldn't let go by any of my normal tricks so I just flipped the rock over and buried the small patch in the sand (the nem was kinda on the edge so he's still safe and happy). Of course the nem hasn't moved but the lack of light should take care of whatever this algae is....but come'on....how much luck can a guy have in one day:boo:
Like I said, I don't even know if it is bryopsis, but with all the horror stories on here I'm not chancing it. Don't understand why after such a long time in my tanks it's just now shown up (nothing new in any of my tanks for a very long time). While bryopsis and mobile BTA's are both individually irritating, when they work together it just throws me into a whole different level of PO'ed
