red bubbles?

[fishguyjosh]

I've got a 20 gal tank. some red bubbles have started congregating on a piece of live rock. it doesnt look anything like green bubble algae does. the bubbles seem to grow very unsymetrical and have more of a random shape. it almost appears as if there is an air pocket inside of them. These bubbles have been growing more like a colony and not really spreading off this piece of rock. ALSO, to complicate matters, there are extremely small white to light purple specs on them and with a closer examination i noticed that these specs seem to move around very slowly (like little worms).
other than this, the tank is very healthy with no ammonia or nitrite. nitrate is around 10-15ppm. all the fish and other invertabretes are very health. the tank houses...

coral beauty
bicolor psuedo
tomato clown and long tenticle anemone
2 peppermint shrimp
and a number of blue leg hermints and astria snails.

I'll try and get a picture up as soon as possible. hopefully someone knows what this is...

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

pics please. sounds like cyano

 

[barnett8]

I have red bubble-like algae in my tank (but its not valonia). Pop one of the bubbles, and if there is goo inside it is what I have too, and is not a problem (even aesthetically... it grows at the rate of fingernails for me).

Hope this helps.

 

[Salamander]

I had red bubble algae and it was a huge pain. Grew fast and grew everywhere. It took a year +, but I was able to eradicate it. It was much more virulent than any green bubble algae I've had.

 

[zenzence]

I have this stuff in my tank exactly as you described it! Just like any other algea try to get your nutrients down and it will die off. I bought a emerald crab which helped just a bit.

just a thought