Bryopsis

[Platehead]

Just left on my overflows. Has anyone had success with pincushion urchins eating it?

Thx

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Just left on my overflows. Has anyone had success with pincushion urchins eating it?

Thx

The only luck I had was manual removal, emerald and pitho crabs and a rabbitfish. My tangs will eat them if I scrape them off first.

 

[PSU4ME]

A Fluconzanole treatment in the tank does wonders.

 

[thrillreefer]

Hydrogen peroxide works like a dream

 

[Greg Hiller]

Long spine Diadema urchins will eat it, but they don't target it. Still you get enough of them and you can keep it in check. That's what I do. The will knock stuff over though, so you need have things in secure places (not that difficult). I've never gone the chemical route for this, I've heard mixed results and I don't want to risk my system (everything doing too well).

 

[chadfish]

Reef Flux

Works for me no side effects seen

 

[ReefAddict]

Fluconzanole at a low dosage works very well for bryopsis.

Ive used the Flux RX and it did the job.

 

[salthobby]

Long spine Diadema urchins will eat it, but they don't target it. Still you get enough of them and you can keep it in check. That's what I do. The will knock stuff over though, so you need have things in secure places (not that difficult). I've never gone the chemical route for this, I've heard mixed results and I don't want to risk my system (everything doing too well).

I put 2 long spine's in my tank and they were great at eating Algae. Except they started taking big bites out of my SPS. Now they do a great job keeping my sump clean.

 

[Greg Hiller]

I've never had a problem with long spine urchins eating any significant amount of coral. Sometimes they will scrap it a little bit as they go over, but not real damage.