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What next?
Yep its not fun to deal with and if untreated it will own your system eventually. Here is one for you. Most all Plants (bryopsis included) have an affinity to bind up and absorb metals, actually metals are essencial for the metabolisms of plants. The problem is that when plants threshold limits has been reached in terms of metals the metals become an enzyme inhibitor and enzyme inhibitors in the case of Bryopsis is just what we are looking for. SO the plan is to stuff that plant with as muich metals as we can so it reaches its threshold. Ok ok metals and corals are not such a good plan...but their is an exception...our buddy Magnesium.
Raise your mg level ( try NOT to use Mg sulfate = epson salts) to approx. 1500 to 1600 and hold it thier for about 3 months. you should see a slight increase in the plants mass initically, but then it will begin to dissolve away. And yes it will play a little havoc with your alk for the time but should be an easy fix once you are done
Hope it helps
MIke
Interesting approach Mike. But if this were a plausible way to approach Bryopsis wouldn't also in turn have the same affect on any algae?
For some of us there is absolutely no way to pull the rock out of the tank without having to tear it down, and at that can not get to all the algae in the tank due to rock structure.
SO a scientific way to approch it would be better than to spend the next 10 years of your life with your arm in the tank.
Boomer.. are you saying this is NOT a way to approach this algae?
I only ask because I too have this problem and there is no way I can pull my rock out to eliminate it.