Algae ID Please!

Discussion in 'ID This!' started by dustin0479, Feb 4, 2011.

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  1. dustin0479

    dustin0479 Peppermint Shrimp

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    It does not seem to be Hair Algae or Bryopsis. Any idea what it might be?
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  2. ReefBruh

    ReefBruh Giant Squid

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    It looks like some form of macro algae. It really looks like hair algae having a very bad hair day.
     
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  3. dustin0479

    dustin0479 Peppermint Shrimp

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    I am starting to think it looks like Maiden's Hair
     
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  4. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    Looks similar to a turf algae. Which one I do not know. Perhaps John from Reefcleaners.org can pin it down.
     
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  5. TROYBOY84

    TROYBOY84 Feather Duster

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    the second pic looks like Bryopsis.
     
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  6. dustin0479

    dustin0479 Peppermint Shrimp

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    The first pic is a patch I pulled out from the second pic. It does not have the fern like appearance like bryopsis
     
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  7. johnmaloney

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    it isnt byropsis, but wirey greens can be just as bad. Most animals dont have the cutting power for it, fish and urchinsand other cleaners with drawbacks only usually....so manual removal is best if you can do it. is it all localized on that one rock? can you treat that rock overnight in a bucket with algaecide, or "nuke" it? It will probably be near impossible to manually removal it all by plucking it out.
     
    johnmaloney, Feb 5, 2011
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