Orange Coraline?

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  1. chonchboy5

    chonchboy5 Astrea Snail

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    Starting to show some Orange Coraline Algae on my live rock.
    Any thoughts? Good? Bad? What do you thing causes the different colours?
    Looks Pretty
    Anthony
     
    chonchboy5, Mar 19, 2011
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  2. dowtish

    dowtish Horrid Stonefish

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    I have some orange too. It's just in a few places, and it came on the rock I purchased. That's really cool if you have it growing in your tank and not just spreading from existing LR.

    Not sure why there is a color difference. I have tons of Crimson colored Red growing, and very little purple comparitively.
     
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  3. inwall75

    inwall75 Giant Squid

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    It's a different species of algae.
     
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  4. K3rack

    K3rack Peppermint Shrimp

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    The only orange I see in my tank is on the rock subsurface of my sand. If it's the same thing, yes it's really pretty!
     
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  5. m2434

    m2434 Giant Squid

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    Could be orange coralline. Also seems to happen to red coralline that does not get enough light. Usually this goes away over time. There is also a disease calles Coralline Lethal Orange Disiease (CLOD). I do not believe this is common in our aquariums though.
     
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