zbrook1
New Member
A while back I posted a question about this red color on the underlying skin to my colony of green stars and came up blank......but today I find my Emeral crab cleaning this red substance off the underlying skin of the green stars and low and behold they are coming back better than before.I dont think this red stuff is cyno because the colony has some pretty heavy flow on them and I tried to blow it off with a turkey baster and it did not move,plus there is no sign of cyno in my tank anywhere(refugium and real good flow).I feel this must be some kind of algae or the Emerald would not eat it,would it. If anybody knows what this red stuff is or how to stop it from coming back please let me know.I dont care what some folks say about Green Emeralds but mine keeps algea at bay and saves corals,what else could you ask for.