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Can you guys ID this algae?

post #1 of 7
12/15/11 at 8:36am
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Hi...At first I thought it was cyano because it was red splotches, but it isn't. Its like a hard scale and it builds up like scales. Looks like little mushrooms from the top. It could be a type of Coraline but this tank is way too new for coraline algae, so I assume it's a macroalgae.

 

Thanks for any help...

 

Red Macro Algae 003.JPG

 

 

Red Macro Algae 004.JPG

 

 

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post #2 of 7
12/15/11 at 8:39am

Mesophyllum mesomorphum

 

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post #3 of 7
12/15/11 at 8:41am

check out this thread Flower.....there is another one that it may be also...look at the calcerous ones

 

http://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/373943/algae-identification-thread

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post #4 of 7
12/15/11 at 8:46am
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Originally Posted by meowzer View Post

check out this thread Flower.....there is another one that it may be also...look at the calcerous ones

 

http://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/373943/algae-identification-thread

Awesome link...it does kind of look like the Mesophyllum mesomorphum ...but that is a coraline and it builds from the bottom, I have that type in the 90g. but this is small little scales. It starts out in a red splotch like it is cyano and then little scales grow out from it...the second picture really shows it good.

 

 

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post #5 of 7
12/15/11 at 4:08pm

It's a type of coralline algae. I quite desired type. I paid a lot of money to get some and my darn tang ripped it apart :-(

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post #6 of 7
12/15/11 at 10:59pm
I will guess Nitophyllum
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post #7 of 7
12/16/11 at 6:48am
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Originally Posted by GeoJ View Post

I will guess Nitophyllum


I looked it up...it says its soft like jello and this stuff is like a scale or fingernail for hardness, maybe after it grows a bit...

 

BTLDref, it doesn't look like the scale coraline I have in the 90g...that builds but has white edges, which is why you can see the layers. 

 

I will wait a few weeks and repost maybe it's just too small to ID yet. Whatever it is, it's invasive because it's all over the tank. I really don't mind since I don't have any coral and the SHs don't care...it's a pretty red...maybe my horses will change to a red color

 

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