macro algae ID please...

[flipteg]

i need some help identifying 2 types of algae in my tank... my father bought the first one for his tank... after a couple of days, it wasn't doing good so he let me put it in my tank and here it is...

this second one just started growing from no where... that rock it is growing on was the very first rock i ever put in my tank... i put that rock in there October 2005... a couple of months ago, zoanthids started growing on a small part of the rock... i took out the rock and used one of those blow torch type lighters to burn the zoanthids... after that, that bubble algae looking thing started growing on it... it took about 3-4 months for that to grow from nothing to about 5" long

 

[theop]

I have that same red algae. I like it.

Someone suggested that it may be: Scinaia complanata

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=901282
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=631021

 

[theop]

The first looks like a Codium spp.

Here is a good algae ID reference.

 

[flipteg]

hey thank you theop... it does look very similar... the algae i have has a very fine "fur" covering the branches just like the one in the pictures... the shop sold it as caulerpa for $15...

 

[flipteg]

i just remembered i have other stuff growing in my tank... this one started growing on the tubes of a pipe organ coral... i bought the pipe organ but it didn't make it after a couple of weeks... this bubble, branched looking thing started growing on it... i'm looking at the website right now trying to find a close match in the picture...

right behind it is another algae that is growing... i'm pretty sure it's calcareous algae... it's the flat wavy thing right in the middle of this picture...

i also have some red plating algae growing on some spots... but i think i already found out what they are...