Single red hairs growing

I have a few spots in my tank where there are single strands of what looks like a red hair is floating around. I have viewed a few pics of red hair algae and it doesnt look like that. I also googled cyanobacteria and it doesnt look like that either. My tank is only 2 weeks old and I have a good bit of brown algae growing.

 

does it look like little spikes things coming out?? like your rock has a five o'clock shadow??

 

I do have some little tubes growing on my LR but this is not coming out of tubes. I even had on clinging on to the top of my heater. I pulled it out of the tank and pulled it apart. It wasnt very strong and didnt break like a hair.

 

Floating in the water column? Do you have live rock in the tank? Probably just die off if so. Doesn’t really matter, your 2 weeks along and lots of different things will appear during the cycle. This is nothing to worry about – though, out of curiosity…can you get a pic?

 

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Its normal, not algae at all - basically its dirt I forget what its called. Someone will know. Think of it as snail mucas collecting fine particles of detritus. Its normal and just part of your cycle.

 

Thanks! That makes sense.

 

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Looks like dinoflagellates to me. Got a bit of that going on in our tank.