Infected Coral please help identify illness

The red is another algea, it's not as bad, but it's bad. Many coral farmers seem to get the red bubble, but with a translucent shen to it.

 

Thank you Gresham I have never herd of it before :-[ [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]( You Are A treasure trove of Reef Knowledge ) [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]

 

I had a Sally Lightfoot that just loved Velonia. It completely cleared it all out of the tank. Then my wife came home with an Emperior Angel and no more SL.

 

I didnt think that stuff was Vanonia. Sorry I had not responded to your posts as I was busy with other things. The link I said that I found was to plain old green bubble algae.

Gresham, you say this red algae is another type pf algae? Do you have a link to it please? When I said it started the size if a pea I ment it was round but not firm like bubble algae. Kindof like half inflated and wine colored. If you look really close there is small dots on it. Only very few are like this...thats how it starts. Then from there it grows into that red algae slimey stuff in my picture. It was one of little pea shaped pieces that I picked up out of my tank and squeesed till it popped. The inside was just exactly like that zap glue that we use to glue our frags...without hardening of course.

DF7XD2: I looked at that link that you posted and this stuff isnt like that stuff at all.

Thanks for the help everyone

 

Aha....I found it!

Botryocladia skottsbergii has been dubbed by some as 'Red Valonia', though the implied comparison is apt only when a specimen is very young, and the grapelike bladders appear to be directly attached to the substrate as in the photo. As this red alga grows, the rust-colored, branching stipe becomes obvious, though the entire thallus rarely grows to protrude more than an inch off the substrate. The bladders themselves are small, rarely growing little larger than 1/3 inch in diameter, and appear a smooth, transparent red-brown to reddish purple. Tiny dark spots (called cystocarps) visible on the inside of the vesicle wall herald sexual reproduction. The species is found around the Indian Ocean, into the Western Pacific, south to Australia and eastwards to Hawaii. Botryocladia uvarioides forms smaller, more numerous vesicles, on a highly branching stipe that can give specimens heights of nearly a foot from the substrate, looking very much like a bunch of grapes. The species has a curious distribution, with records thus far only in the Philippines and in Baja California. Botryocladia botryoides also forms tall thalli, but there is less incidence of branching, and so the 'stems' are longer, and adorned with bladders. It is found throughout Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, as well as locations along the Eastern Atlantic. Only record in the Western Pacific is in the Philippines. Other species include: Botryocladia leptopoda from Arabia to the eastern shores of continental Asia and down to Australia; Botryocladia microphysa, a primarily Mediterranean alga with records in the Canary Islands and Indonesia; and Botryocladia pyriformis from the Canary Islands, the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, and the waters from China to the Philippines. Botryocladia vesicles usually float when severed, because the mucilaginate fluid inside is less dense than water.


Its on this page. Again I used www.wetwebmedia.com to find out its name. If you havent used this page than you are really missing out. Very useful website for us.

Heres the link to the page that this article came from. I actually described it exactly like they do.

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-02/hcj/feature/

Jay

 

OK, so they are both loosely termed "bubble algae", then...the red and green!  I am now enlightened!!!! ;D

I had not seen this red kind before!!!

 

I heard from somethingfishy that emerald crabs can clean this stuff up.

 

i use the siphon to scraoe and suck at the same time....spores/debris are bothe sucked up. the crabs finish off the left overs if you dont. They can get nasty if conditions are right....

 

I meant to say peppermint shrimp...oops!