Need help with ID

[thresher]

Here is a picture of the first. What is it and is it harmful? Can it be eradicated easily?

I'm referring to the small white/clear finger like projections. Looks like a fern???

This purple filamentous algae is only in a couple spots and is spreading slowly. Once again, what is it and is it harmful? How do I get rid of it if I so desire.

This is the strangest of all. I'm not referring to the bubble algae but the small brown nodules. This stuff is growing fairly profusely. The bubble algae is also starting to get worse thus I am deciding whether or not to try an emerald crab.

Just thought I'd throw in a full tank shot.

Thanks for any input!!

 

[bvysochin]

Those little brown things look like flatworms.. do they move?

The purple algae I think is a type of turf algae.. it can spread to your corals and possibly suffocate.

Don't know about the first one though but I don't think its harmful.. other can chime in if im wrong..

 

[thresher]

Holy crap, took my poking stick and those liitle brown things move!! Ok what do I do? There are shitload of those things in my tank.

 

[toromp]

Holy crap, took my poking stick and those liitle brown things move!! Ok what do I do? There are shitload of those things in my tank.

I think wrassels eat those bugs. The first pic look like a type of pest nem like aips

 

[kiwigirl]

the melanurus Wrasse works wonders......he'll have all of them gone in no time. I had some flat worms that he took care so I moved him into my larger tank as he was getting aggressive during feeding time with my seahorses. he must have missed a few little ones as I have noticed them coming back ......thus my new thread asking for a small female melanurus. This is the best natural cure. Good luck.

 

[thresher]

Are these flatworms the dreaded red planaria? I did some research and it looks as though mandarin gobies will eat them also. Is this 100% or a hit or miss aspect with flatworms and mandarins'. From the readings it seems a wrasse would be a 100% solution. Please correct me if I'm ill informed. I would rather go with the mandarin but if it takes a wrasse to do the job the first time, I'll go with that route.

 

[toromp]

If u dnt want that infested rock ill take it. Doing an experiment with aips/pest Nems

 

[thresher]

If u dnt want that infested rock ill take it. Doing an experiment with aips/pest Nems

All the rocks are infested. This whole time i just thought it was some type of algae. Im gonna pick up a mandarin or wrasse tomorrow and see what happens. The infestation is fairly severe and i dont want to add any chemicals to the tank. Strange thing is all my corals and fish are doing great.

 

[kiwigirl]

the wrasse is a 100% guarantee......make sure it is a Melanurus wrasse though. They have the best sucess rate. It'll take him probably about 4 days and they'll almost all be gone. He'll burry himself in the sand for a bit too.........he may get chased by your clowns so cover the top initially so he can't jump out.