Bright Red algae in my BB reef

[Zoom]

What is this?
Is encrusting all over the tank the tangs eat it but is just keeps coming back look at the back of the tank.

 

[Bomber]

Zoomy, what the heck is that!

Got a close up picture? Is it a sheet, hairy, slimy, ??

 

[Zoom]

Is not slimy .
looks like stringy in places.
I try to scrape it off put dos not come off easily.

 

[SeanT]

Try posting this in the Marine Plants forum.

 

[Lunchbucket]

wierd!!

Lunchbucket

 

[Bomber]

No you don't, you leave it right here.

Try to get a picture shot from across it, not down at it. I'm pretty sure what it is, I just want to see if it's hollow looking tubes, or more like hair.

 

[Zoom]

Here is a better pick, looks like cyno but is hard to get it off.

Here is one more at the base of the stag.

 

[Bomber]

Zoom get real close and look at one of the hairs. Are they perfect round circles hooked together in a chain? or are they longer round tubes hooked in a chain?

 

[Zoom]

Zoom get real close and look at one of the hairs. Are they perfect round circles hooked together in a chain? or are they longer round tubes hooked in a chain?

I try I can not see only thing for sure it looks like very short small hair like algae, sorry I even try with the magnifier I can not tell .

 

[Bomber]

Is not slimy .

One more question and we'll have it. If it's not slimy, when you touch it does it crunch? or just feel like stiff hairs?

 

[Zoom]

I just put my hand in the tank, and feels like stiff very short hairs.
I scrape some and feel it in my fingers , thus not disintegrate when I squeeze it between my fingers, I notice is some under the rock and is more like cluster has some body to it and is more easily scraped off.

 

[Bomber]

Anotrichum barbatum

 

[Zoom]

Anotrichum barbatum don't ring no bells.

 

[Zoom]

I try searching for any information to no availability, you know if it will kill any thing, how can I get it out of the tank ?

 

[coralite]

The only fish that I think might be interested in eating that is a foxface or a rabbitfish. if it is like most algaes, it should phase out of your tank at some point. Good luck keeping it under control.

 

[Lunchbucket]

sorry to hijack but man how many marine biology people do we have here are RC...what a resource!!

Lunchbucket

 

[acroconut]

Zoom....you doin' everything right? Cause I thought this kind of stuff wasn't supposed to happen if you went bare bottom.

 

[nyfireman3097]

i dont think that BB stops these things what it does is with the correct flow it allows for the nutrients to be pushed into the skimmer which should be ran wet and by doing this the skimmer will pul out more nutrient then if you have a SB which will be sucking the nutrients into itself to stive along having a BB doesnt mean you automatically have NO nutrients in your system which will cause alage in your system HTH Please feel free to add to this or correct anything i might be worng about thanx
Nick

 

[Bomber]

BB won't stop this kind - a epiphytic reef crest algae that likes clean water.

Find something that will eat it. My first guess would be blue leg hermits.

 

[JB NY]

I wonder if this is the same stuff. Ignore the tort and look at the rock.

I've had a few discussions with people and a bunch of us seem to have it, BB, DSB doesn't matter. I don't know anyone one has been able to get rid of it. I've got some astreas that seem to eat it, but only off of certain rock. Other areas they won't touch it at all.

Not sure if anyone is using blue leg hermits. I would think all my snails would be toast if I added a hundred hermits to the tank.