Coralline or Bubble Algae?

[Cuttlecute]

Okay, I hate the internet sometimes because you search for something specific and you get a bunch of crap you weren't looking for. Then there are people who mistakenly claim they have pics of what you are looking for, but really they just don't know what they are talking about and it turns out those pics are of something else. So help me out guys, is this Coralline or Bubble Algae?

My friend told me I might have Bubble Algae from the way I described what I have in my tank, but what I have in my tank looks JUST like the stuff growing in those pictures. Forget the color on them, just focus on the texture and size. Please help me before I go nuts from the lack of standards on this God-forsaken series of tubes we call the internet >.<

 

[RRaider]

There is no way to mistake coraline for bubble algae. Are they bubbles filled with liquid and do they multiply? If so it's bubble algae.

 

[david335]

If it's green or dark green. it bubble algae.
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http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-02/hcj/feature/index.php

 

[Cuttlecute]

I haven't had my tank too long and these things haven't done anything but sit at the bottom of my tank for weeks. I was going to try to propogate them in a different tank so I could isolate them and throw in some Purple Up, but when my friend told me he didn't know what I had then I wasn't sure either, because I'm still a huge noob. Also I haven't touched them or tried popping them or anytyhing, like I said they are just at the bottom of my tank. So could you or anyone else please tell me, based on what you see in the pictures and only based on what you see in the pictures, what do I have?

BTW, it is light green and then I also have some that are red exactly like the ones in the first picture.

 

[seapug]

A clearer pic of the first one would help but those look like coralline covered reef rocks to me. The white ones are dead coralline. It will come back eventually. Bubble algae is green or red obvious bubbles and pops or can be ripped off the rocks.

 

[jhentr]

I have both bubble algae (green and red) along with green and red coralline. I believe what you have with your blurry pictures is bubble algae.

Coralline usually sticks flat to surfaces (although some do plate). Bubble algae is what it's name implies, a bubble like sac filled with fluid.

If you can pop it, then it's a bubble algae. If it's hard to scrape off, and flat, then it's coralline.

 

[reefD]

Coraline is hard, bubble algae pops when squeezed ..that simple

 

[Cuttlecute]

I guess it is Coralline afterall. Thank you so much everyone.