What is it and how do you manage it
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drummereef
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Do you have a pic handy? Hard to tell by the description alone. 
demonsp
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Sounds like red slime algea but sounds a little thick, but without pic no way to tell. Did you use tap water and how is your flow.
But this may help.
http://melevsreef.com/id/algae.html
But this may help.
http://melevsreef.com/id/algae.html
Frick-n-Frags
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If it is jet black(I mean real black not some 14KMH optical DELUSION that turns brown into purple
), somewhat smooth and "bloblike" heh it may be a big black liver sponge
If it has any fuzziness or filamentousness(hey I made up a word)
it is probably algae. Here is the key: no algae is jet black.
so if this is really really dark blue, blue-green, or magenta, it could be cyano.
lobophora typically looks like brown paper (I think of a grease soaked paper lunch bag) sheets or small upright things that look sort of like bracket fungus on a dead log.(how monti caps are shaped sometimes)
edit: oh yeah :
sponge = good(to a degree I guess. it won't hurt anything, but it may be grossing you out or it could overgrow some stuff and get a little "pesty"
my guess is it will "boom-n-bust" once it gets too big and starves out.
algae = bad
), somewhat smooth and "bloblike" heh it may be a big black liver spongeIf it has any fuzziness or filamentousness(hey I made up a word)
it is probably algae. Here is the key: no algae is jet black.
so if this is really really dark blue, blue-green, or magenta, it could be cyano.
lobophora typically looks like brown paper (I think of a grease soaked paper lunch bag) sheets or small upright things that look sort of like bracket fungus on a dead log.(how monti caps are shaped sometimes)
edit: oh yeah :
sponge = good(to a degree I guess. it won't hurt anything, but it may be grossing you out or it could overgrow some stuff and get a little "pesty"
my guess is it will "boom-n-bust" once it gets too big and starves out.
algae = bad
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