Symphllia problem
 

My Symphyllia has some algae growing on the skeleton on the outside of the coral and some on the skeleton in between the folds. It's a yellow ish green color algae that coats the skeleton , it's not hairy at all so I can't just pick it off. It also had a little bit of bubble algae which I have removed. It's only on the skeleton but I think it is iratating the flesh and causing it to not open fully in spots. Is there a safe way to remove this? Some sort of dip maybe?

Here are a couple pics , very hard to see as I just took the pics with only the blue lights on.

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/...761F48362F.jpg

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/...761CABF3CD.jpg

Here's a better pic before I had this problem.

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/...76215E5B32.jpg

At night take a turkey baster and blast the algae off. Be care and have some thing to us k it out of the water. If the brain is still coming out your okay.

With the consistency of this stuff , I would not be able to blow it off with a turkey baster. Its stuck on there pretty good.

And out of curiousity , why at night?

As with most brains they keep there tissue in at night. The tentacles come out. But they are out to catch any food that might pass.

Anyone else? Will a dip in hydrogen peroxide kill the algae?

More pics might help.

I'll take some new pics in the morning

In this pic you can see it at the top

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/...DA0D08DF7C.jpg

In this one you can see it on the left edge

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/...DA08381FA8.jpg

And this one where some is growing in the hole between the folds in the Center of the pic.

http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/...DA0214F7E9.jpg

maybe this link might help you out.
http://www.reefcleaners.org/index.ph...d=54&Itemid=81