Some sort of red algae?

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  1. karmic whimsy

    karmic whimsy Astrea Snail

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    What is this? The strands are very thin.

    (I hope someone tells me this stuff isn't bad, so I don't have to yank this rock out of my tank, lol!)
     

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  2. Dr.Fragenstein

    Dr.Fragenstein Panda Puffer

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    Are you talking the red on the upper right? Looks similar to red calcerous algae but also similar to a brown....can't think of the name right now. I will stop thinking about my new skimmer and try to remember it!!

    Shouldn't be a problem though!
     
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  3. LCP136

    LCP136 Sailfin Tang

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    Some hitchhiked in on some coral pieces I bought. It didn't expand and some hermits and emerald crabs ate most of it.
     
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  4. cuttingras

    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    the purple stuff? some kind of algea????
     
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  5. karmic whimsy

    karmic whimsy Astrea Snail

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    The furry purple-y reddish stuff in the center. It's kind of a burgundy color in person.
     
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  6. kiarah

    kiarah Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Hi< that looks just like the algae i have at the bottom off my tabks and people have told me its cyano. I got a freebe hermit on one off my mushroom stones and the hermits shell had A little patch off it but a few days after i added the hermit to my tank it pasted away and the shell was left at the bootom of my tank. The cyano then spead from the shell all over my tank and its now covered in a purple carpet!
    Hope this helps!
    K
     
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  7. 10acrewoods

    10acrewoods Fire Goby

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    red on right is not cyano it is some sort of velvet red algae. Ok book says peysonnelia sp. but yours don't look as velvety
     
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  8. karmic whimsy

    karmic whimsy Astrea Snail

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    Nope, neither one of the red growths in the pic is cyano. One is flat and hard, and the other has very fine strands, and is very bushy. I'm stumped.
     
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  9. NU-2reef

    NU-2reef Montipora Digitata

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    not sure either ive been trying to figure it out but i do know my scarlet loves to munch on it. i just need a few more scarlet hermits and i think i can get rid of it all.
     
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  10. kiarah

    kiarah Coral Banded Shrimp

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    The reason why i said cyano is it looks the same as the stuff in the bottom off my tank! Its the same colour purple and is like a felt carpet with stringy bits flowing from it. The discription & picture is the same as my stuff
    Thanks K
     
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