ID help please! Something funky growing

[Triple_B]

See the red stringy/slimy/wavy stuff around the base of the chalice? Any ideas? Cyano? Never had it, so I have no clue what it looks like in person, and it's only around the base of this frag, nowhere else.

Thanks for lookin!

 

[cody6766]

It looks like it could by cyano, but it could also be that algae that looks like pink cotton candy too. If it's the latter then you want to get rid of it asap. Don't pick it off in the tank, do it in a bowl of water outside of it. Apparently the stuff is really invasive, more so than most other algae. I had some show up on an acro frag plug a while back. I removed the plug/frag and put it in a bowl of tank water, picked the algae off and tossed it in the trash as I went. I then dipped/swished it in another bowl of tank water and returned it to the tank. I haven't had any ill effects from that method. Apparently turbo snails will much on the stuff too, so there's another fail-safe

 

[happysak]

Hard to say without seeing it. Here is article about pink cotton candy algae.

 

[madkat]

could it be the beginnings of a red slime algae?