Identify please

[copester]

Can someone tell me what the redstuff is to the left of the pic? It is rubbery and slimes when you touch it. Also any ideas on what eats it or how to get rid of it? It grows rather quickly and won't let anything else grow on the rock.

 

[barbra]

Ahhhh! Looks like a cyano outbreak in the making. Don't pop those buggers, pull it out and scrub them off. Get the anemone while you're at it.

 

[copester]

It's not like red slime that can get on your sand, it only grows on rock.

 

[saltycreefer]

Those are filter feeding tunicates. They wont bother anything.

 

[barbra]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11873145#post11873145 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltycreefer
Those are filter feeding tunicates. They wont bother anything.

I heartily disagree.

 

[saltycreefer]

That's unfortunate b/c that's exactly what they are.

 

[Tang Salad]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11873178#post11873178 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltycreefer
That's unfortunate b/c that's exactly what they are.

:lol:
Gotta admire the confidence...but it looks a lot more like red Valonia, a macroalgae, to me.

Barbra: is that what you were thinking?

 

[barbra]

TangSalad:

Not at first, but after he stated it wasn't a sand thing I knew I wasn't on. I am entirely positive that it is not tunicates though.

 

[Tang Salad]

Red Valonia:

btw, this stuff is not technically Valonia, but that's what it's usually called. I think it may in fact be Botryocladia.

 

[Paintbug]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11873274#post11873274 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tang Salad
Red Valonia:
btw, this stuff is not technically Valonia, but that's what it's usually called. I think it may in fact be Botryocladia.

i agree 100% there.

 

[UDrogue]

Great pix of your lion though......

 

[saltycreefer]

Oh snap...