Red fuzzy algae - ID please

[TampaSnooker]

I have this algae growing in a refugium in a large reef system that I manage. Since it took a hold up there, it has managed to outcompete dragons breath and chaetomorpha. Does anyone know what the species is? It grows loosely attached or as a tumbleweed. The tangs prohibit it from growing in the display but it is very persistent in the 'fuge. The resident pink decorator urchin ignores it.

 

[jraker]

It looks like red turf algae, but in the third picture I can see the shape of a leaf, which points to it being some sort of red macro. I haven't really seen anything like it before.

 

[TampaSnooker]

The third picture is the first time I've seen it as a branched growth. It is nearly always in little cotton ball - like tufts. It remains a short red mat where grazers keep it cropped. Trochus snails eat a little but must not like it - they move on.

 

[mzkrista]

1st and 2nd pic looks like cotton candy

 

[gar732]

1st and 2nd pic looks like cotton candy

Agreed. If it is then turbo snails will take care of it.