Brain with Dinos?

Ok, so, I'm fairly sure my goniastrea has some dinos on it, especially because of the description I've heard of those bubbles traveling up the strands.



If that's dinos, then it's had them in the same spot, and the dinos have stayed the same size, for about 2 months now. Is this a problem if it's very much under control in this fashion?

I had it on a acan of mine that fell into the sand, and one polyp died (I'm fairly sure the falls into the sand caused it; it was kinda high up. in the tank, and that one head was always the head deepest in sand). It seemed to spread to surrounding heads, but there's almost no dinos left on it anywhere, so I was wondering if it's "contagious" in the sense that it can infect a healthy polyp.

 

'Bubble' Alage: Selected Descriptions, Controls and Comments by Horge Cortes-Jorge, Jr. - Reefkeeping.com

See if this helps. I didn't see anything the same color as yours. :/

It certainly looks like bubble algae to me..

 

it looks like dino in a way but I seriously doubt that it is. I think it is more then likely just brown algea. When I had a dino outbreak the strands got very tall and looks just like snot all over things.
dino spread fairly fast and kills corals that it is on typically.
I would turn down your light schedule...even leave them off for several days.
What is your pH and alk at?
cool pics what type of camera do you have to get that so clear?

 

Yeah, I just said it because of the bubbles that "travel up" it. I can use a turkey baster and blow on that stuff, and it'll blow off the bubbles, but the stuff itself is very, very hard to get off, and is very thin, maybe a couple hairs wide - I have to use a plier to get enough grip on the strands to pull part of it off.



I don't know about turning off the lights because of this; it's really that I was wondering about it, since this one coral has had 3 of these strands on it since the day I got it. The third one I pulled off a couple days after I noticed it, and it took a good while to get it off, so I just left these 2. It hasn't spread, gotten bigger, or anything; it just seems to survive and make the bubbles. I imagined if it was dinos or another pest, and they have nutrients to survive but not grow due to my tank's conditions vs the tank where I bought it from, it might be living and not spread like normal.

I'm going to guess the pH is 8.1 and the alk is 2.3 meq, but I'm not sure, I haven't tested in a couple weeks. Like I said, no spreading of anything other than coralline = no problems.

The camera is built-in to my Nokia N900 phone (5 MP) lmfao ;D. Press the camera lens against the glass, full zoom, and autofocus do wonders when used together.

 

Looks like it could be dinos, have the same in my tank every once in a while and get the same look.