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Originally Posted by Kabong
Yep that's bubble algea.
If you can get the rock out, pull it out pop it and drain it in to the sink.
Use a course brush to scrub the crap out of the area.
Rinse in some tank water (dont add the water back to the tank)
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Have used that method and only had more bubble algae that eventually became a plaque
Here's an article from Christy's Reference Library about Valonia (bubble algae)....
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23460
From the article, this is pretty much the method I use to remove it...
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My weapon of choice ought to be a small stainless-steel flathead screwdriver, sharpened to wicked excess, and used to gouge out the offenders at the anchorage, even including a thin veneer of rock. Bare fingernails can be unreliable for removing certain 'bubble algae', and can invite injury and infection. I have seen small manicuring scissors, carefully bent in a curve, used to snip off vesicles 'at the root' -but this almost surely leaves the anchorage structure intact, and likely ruptures the vesicle.
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HTH
