Weirdo Macro ID help needed

[Frick-n-Frags]

6-line. That brown plant has grown a few thin leaves too now. It is looking a lot more like the Lobophora pics in my book, so until shown a better guess, Lobophora it is. thanx

 

[6-line]

F-n-F,

if it is indeed lobophora, I'd be puling that junk out of there now.

It's hard to remove when new but mature it'll wafer or flake up and make removal somewhat easier.


6

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

hey 6, thanx for the thoughtful warning. I should explain what I am doing: I am trying an experiment in which I will maximize my algae biodiversity into as many genera (and species within) as I can obtain and during this, not let any one algae get to dominant proportions.

My goal is to see if I can get a certain stability WRT nutrient absorbtion and plant mass, that both keps the fertilizers down AND never limits out any key nutrient that would cause a particular algae to crash. So I am encouraging several potentially obnoxious algae such as Dictyota, Briopsis, C peltata(racemosa var). They aren't obnoxious when they don't really spread much. I also have 6 boxes of water on my system so I can actually evacuate corals to somewhere else if it looks like there will be algae-coral disputes.

 

[Jimbo327]

I have a super nuisance algae that laughs at dictyota and bryopsis. It will take over your tank in a month, and out-compete everything in your tank. I'll take a picture of it later.

 

[cal3v]

I have some that I think is an algae, its pink and it glows under actinics .

 

[K. Lee]

Something shredded the algae I posted the pic of just the other day. I don't know who dunnit, maybe a bristleworm?

Still hoping for an id for that algae.