Bryopsis on my Nuclear Greens frag

[colinadam]

Hey Ike, sent you a PM

 

[revhtree]

Good job!

 

[MarvinsReef]

nice.. now get ready for those single polyps to have 3-4 babies in a month or two..

 

[impur]

I had this stuff on a frag of hermans reds. It grows fast! I took the frag out, pulled all the briopsis off with tweezers and then covered the whole thing in superglue. All around the polyps, between them, under them, everywhere! Worked out great, although its been 3 months and no new polyps on my frag. I'd rather wait longer for the frag to grow than have to deal with that stuff.

 

[JGoslee]

My hippo tang ate the small patches of bryopsis that I had. He's the only fish I ever saw eat the stuff.

 

[impur]

Nice, you should loan him out for bryopsis eradication!!! Could make some nice $$$ I'm sure!! LOL

 

[Azurel]

I had a scopus tang that would eat any type of greenery I had in the tank....I mis that fish, but he was picking on my Maldive clowns so he had to go....

 

[colinadam]

Looks like I beat the beast known as briopsis thanks to you guys. I would have seriously chucked this frag if it wasn't for the advice I got here.
Here they are a week later, hoping they grow now that they are not surrounded by briopsis.

Here's one (I think this one has Ike's name on it)

And the other (A top down shot)

Oh happy day

 

[d.grcich]

Is all the white stuff around the base of the polyps glue? Did you do that to cover the area so briopsis would not grow or to attach the polyp?

 

[colinadam]

Yep & Yep

 

[JGoslee]

Good job!

 

[MarvinsReef]

coolio!

keep up the good work man...

 

[d.grcich]

Good job and if you pop out more polyps remember me for a trade. Not to far from ya.

 

[colinadam]

Heck yeah D.

Have you ever been to Oceans Floor? They are having their yearly fragapolooza event this summer (I think late June), I plan on being there with Purple Deaths and Nuclear Greens.
He will have Biocubes on sale for cheap during the event

 

[minibowmatt]

thats cool, man. Im glad their doing good!

 

[d.grcich]

No I have not been to the Chicago area fish stores. I need to because the ones in my area blow. I will keep fragapolooza in mind that sounds like a good time and I think my friends at Uberfrags go to that one. Thanks!

 

[colinadam]

Yeah, John (fishman) goes to OF often. OF is a sponsor at Uber and has a site, I think it's like www.oceansfloor.net and his online shop is www.oafcorals.com. Cool store. Huge fish only display, I think it's like 800 gallons, has a pink tail trigger, schoal tang, naso tang and a handful of other very large fish in there. Big time SPS guy if that's your thing.

I think last year was the first time it happened and it was a huge event from what I hear.

 

[Rukus]

If anyone was still curious about battling bryopsis I had some experience with it. A Scopas Tang did chew on it here and there but I got a crab called a Sally lightfoot (that's what they're called in my area at least) that got rid of it all.

Not sure if it is entirely reef safe, I've seen little nips out of my fish's tails but it doesn't seem to bother corals too much.

Image from www.reefcorner.com.