Murder by Wrasse ??? MIA Abalone/SeaHare

[profntbtr]

i used to service aquariums professionally, and i had serviced one tank for the better part of a year before i discovered their abalone, and it was about as big as a nerf football, and had come in as a hitchhiker on the live rock. They hide real well, as you have discovered. sea hares too, i had introduced one into a 60 gallon cube, and had presumed it dead after 3 months. 4 months later, i was gravel vac'ing when the tube filled with dark purple water, i stopped to investigate, and there was the sea hare stuck in my gravel vac, inking and angry, let him go, and didn't see him again for 2 months. It's truly amazing the camouflage some creatures have.

[Scream311]

Lol yea it def is amazing how they naturaly disguise themselves and do what they do best in the wild only in captive tanks. I can only hope that the sea hare is still somewhere in my reef

[hobogato]

on the briopsis, have you tried the peroxide thing? my dad had pretty bad briopsis and he started squirting peroxide on it in the tank with a medicine syringe and it is almost gone now in less than a month.

[ShAgMaN]

ok from recent experience with both, here what I just went through. I let my bio pellet reactor get a lil clogged and obstruct the tumbling(one month of this) because I was still feeding heavy and no other nitrate absorption I had a bad out break in hair algae and bryopsis. first you need to fix the source of nitrates, which for was reduce feeding and cleaning my reactor. then I used a combo of algae fix and Kent Marin tech m(bryopsis killer) . I dosed double the algae fix even triple sometimes what is recommended( do this slowly to see effects on your livestock) I had no I'll side effects to my livestock. you use the tech m to raise your mag to about 1600 and hold it there till you see bryopsis die. after a week of dosing I would get a tooth brush and scrub heavy problem areas and the stuff just comes off, and collected in my filter sock. any questions pm or call me james. be ready it takes a lot of tech m and it's a lil pricey, and remember test through out the treatment so nothing gets away from you.

+1,000,000

Tech m is the way to go for getting rid of bryopsis. However, I had no success with algae fix - I think it sucks but just my opinion. Chris is totally right on scrubbing as well. You have to keep on this, pretty much daily until it's gone......or it will be a nightmare.

[Scream311]

Yea guys ill have to upload a current pic To show . But yes the Bryopsis dips have worked like crazy ! Boyy What a Difference !