Algae Identification

[Pimp My Fish]

Can someone help identify this algae? It hitchhiked on one of my corals and is growing like crazy!

 

[Sniperhank]

Hard to see on my phone, but it looks like a type of caulerpa. This stuff can be very invasive. I'd take everything out with it attached and aim to destroy. Scrub it, soak it in a hydrogen peroxide mix, even throw the rock away.


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[Pimp My Fish]

This stuff is all over my rocks tht have corals, is there any way to remove it without killing them?

 

[Sniperhank]

It will be lots of manual removal, but the roots might be deep in your rock. I'd still pull the rocks out to remove as much as possible.

 

[Pimp My Fish]

Would a coral dip help? The corals are attqched to the rocks and i dont want to kill them

 

[Sniperhank]

A dip won't do anything to the algae.


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