I have a pretty wide variety of macroalgae in my reef tank, and I do my best to erradicate it by harvesting the stuff at least once per week. But one strain is particularly bothersome.
This stuff is a brownish/green and sort of triangular shapped with concave sides (like if you sliced arcs off the sides of a trinagle) (sorry, no pictures). It is growing on the sides of my clams and several LPS corals, and extends past the edge of the base so as to touch the clam's mantle or the polyp of the coral. I have already lost an Elegance to this algae, and I am afraid that I might loose a Fox. I try to pick this stuff off, but it falls apart in my fingers.
What can I do? I am tempted to get a toothbrush and try rubbing it off of the sides of the corals and clams, but I am afraid of harming the corals and clams. Any suggestions??
Mike
This stuff is a brownish/green and sort of triangular shapped with concave sides (like if you sliced arcs off the sides of a trinagle) (sorry, no pictures). It is growing on the sides of my clams and several LPS corals, and extends past the edge of the base so as to touch the clam's mantle or the polyp of the coral. I have already lost an Elegance to this algae, and I am afraid that I might loose a Fox. I try to pick this stuff off, but it falls apart in my fingers.
What can I do? I am tempted to get a toothbrush and try rubbing it off of the sides of the corals and clams, but I am afraid of harming the corals and clams. Any suggestions??
Mike