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Bubble Algae on my new coral

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junk

2 of my recent coral purchases from my LFS have bubble algae. I've glued the two discs, but should I pull them off the rock then try to scrape the algae off? Will it grow back? Any other way to get rid of it. It's really annoying since one was a really nice blasto :'( ... the other is a little zoa frag.

I'm concerned about it spreading. It hasn't so far, but I want this gone before it presents itself x 1000.
 
Sunny

Sunny

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I got a coral from Trop on Saturday. I noticed it had bubble algae on it. I took it back the next day.
Some people say it is easy to scrape off. I just did not want to risk it.
 
H

Hirobo

I would cut the piece of disk that tha algae is on make sure you dont pop it in your tank that stuff is a pain in the butt to get rid of
 
Hawkeye

Hawkeye

i think given the fact that so many stores frag and sell them to each other - we're lucky it's just valonia/bubble algae. the store on route 22 has got a ton of it in some of their frag tanks.

I introduced it from a different seller who at the time was giving away the coral. I should've known better.

Anyways - for me, when I see it, I remove the LR it's growing on and scrape it off.

If it's stuck on your LR you could attach a brush to the end of your siphon and vigorously siphon the bubble as you brush (try and avoid popping it).

Supposedly the smaller bubbles do not represent a problem spreading, but the really large ones are full of reproductive material and if popped would get carried around all over your tank and settle on a low-flow spot.
 
Baxreefs

Baxreefs

That's a tough algae once it gets a hold.

Definitely remove the piece to a bucket to scrape and scrape it aggressively. This may be hard with a blasto, but if you can remove the substrate and remount it. I had to get a rabbit to knock it back once it took hold in my 120. I had to trade off the rabbit as it ate lots of other stuff too, but fortunately it taught my fox face lo and yellow tang to eat it too! So now I see it it but it is very conttrolled.
 
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Whitebird1

Not a big deal, if you can take the piece out and scrape it off that should do it, if not, set a siphon on the bubble then scrape it off. Next move, Emerald crabs will eat it and clean the tank.
 
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