What is this stuff? Algae?

joeyprice · 04/20/2018, 05:03 PM

Its growing off three plugs with zoa's on them. I thought it was dinos at first, and I know it looks like air bubbles on the hairs, but that is detritus that has stuck to it. there is another plug in there that is hard to get a photo of where it looks more like fuzz. Its also growing on the rock around the plugs, but doesn't seem to spread very quickly. Any ideas?

Tank: LED Biocube 16
Fish: Royal Gramma, 6 Line
Inverts: Blood Red Fire Shrimp
Coral: Small 2 head frogspawn
Small 2 head torch
Small single head hammer
3 ricordia
the zoa plugs in question.

The photo period has been about 8 hours total, with just blues for 30 before and after the whites come on. I have switched to running just blues for the past few days to see if it would help with hair, but so far it doesn't seem to have helped.

All the coral is doing fine with the exception of the Zoa which seems to be getting crowded out by whatever this crap is.

My Nitrate is running 10-15 and my phosphate is one color step above zero, but I can't remember what the exact number is. I just added some GFO and Chemipure blue. Other than that the filtration is rock and matrix.

Thanks

joeyprice · 04/20/2018, 05:09 PM

I guess the file was too big, sorry. Here is the photo.

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Originally Posted by joeyprice

Its growing off three plugs with zoa's on them. I thought it was dinos at first, and I know it looks like air bubbles on the hairs, but that is detritus that has stuck to it. there is another plug in there that is hard to get a photo of where it looks more like fuzz. Its also growing on the rock around the plugs, but doesn't seem to spread very quickly. Any ideas?

Tank: LED Biocube 16
Fish: Royal Gramma, 6 Line
Inverts: Blood Red Fire Shrimp
Coral: Small 2 head frogspawn
Small 2 head torch
Small single head hammer
3 ricordia
the zoa plugs in question.

The photo period has been about 8 hours total, with just blues for 30 before and after the whites come on. I have switched to running just blues for the past few days to see if it would help with hair, but so far it doesn't seem to have helped.

All the coral is doing fine with the exception of the Zoa which seems to be getting crowded out by whatever this crap is.

My Nitrate is running 10-15 and my phosphate is one color step above zero, but I can't remember what the exact number is. I just added some GFO and Chemipure blue. Other than that the filtration is rock and matrix.

Thanks

mcgyvr · 04/21/2018, 06:54 AM

crappy picture.. try again..
And please turn your blue channel off or way down too.. It may help focus even..

joeyprice · 04/21/2018, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcgyvr

crappy picture.. try again..
And please turn your blue channel off or way down too.. It may help focus even..

Best my phone will do. I'm charging the battery on the DSLR

devimik · 04/21/2018, 07:13 PM

Hard to tell from that pic, but almost looks like Bryopsis. If you can take the frag out and remove the strands of algae, that's what I'd do. My first Bryopsis outbreak started like that - from a zoa frag with two tiny strands of Bryopsis - took over the whole tank and was a major pain.

04/20/2018, 05:03 PM	#1
joeyprice Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 13	What is this stuff? Algae? Its growing off three plugs with zoa's on them. I thought it was dinos at first, and I know it looks like air bubbles on the hairs, but that is detritus that has stuck to it. there is another plug in there that is hard to get a photo of where it looks more like fuzz. Its also growing on the rock around the plugs, but doesn't seem to spread very quickly. Any ideas? Tank: LED Biocube 16 Fish: Royal Gramma, 6 Line Inverts: Blood Red Fire Shrimp Coral: Small 2 head frogspawn Small 2 head torch Small single head hammer 3 ricordia the zoa plugs in question. The photo period has been about 8 hours total, with just blues for 30 before and after the whites come on. I have switched to running just blues for the past few days to see if it would help with hair, but so far it doesn't seem to have helped. All the coral is doing fine with the exception of the Zoa which seems to be getting crowded out by whatever this crap is. My Nitrate is running 10-15 and my phosphate is one color step above zero, but I can't remember what the exact number is. I just added some GFO and Chemipure blue. Other than that the filtration is rock and matrix. Thanks

04/21/2018, 06:54 AM	#3
mcgyvr Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 20,050	crappy picture.. try again.. And please turn your blue channel off or way down too.. It may help focus even.. __________________ Who me?

04/21/2018, 07:13 PM	#5
devimik Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: KC, KS Posts: 637	Hard to tell from that pic, but almost looks like Bryopsis. If you can take the frag out and remove the strands of algae, that's what I'd do. My first Bryopsis outbreak started like that - from a zoa frag with two tiny strands of Bryopsis - took over the whole tank and was a major pain. __________________ Mike D Coral Beauty, Green Filefish, One Spot Foxface, Springeri Dottyback, 2 Ocellaris Clowns, Yellow Watchman Goby, Flame Hawkfish, Spotted Mandarin Current Tank Info: 90g Softie Reef, 150# live rock, 30g sump w/refugium, Tunze Osmolator 3155 ATO, Octopus NWB 150 Skimmer, Mag 950 return, Maxspect 120w Razor 10K LED light X2, BRS Phosphate Reactor; Apex Lite