algae algae algae!

[ivy2dw7]

OK, my tank has been cycled for about a week now, my royal gramma is doing great as are my cleaner shrimp and 2 peppermints. And of course the hermits and snails are fine too. But now my glass is covered in magenta/purple-ish algae and there are spots where it's green too. Not a whole lot of diatoms left on the glass, just in the sand. So, is this algae good? There isn't any hair algae, just the colorful stuff. I really like it, but I don't like it being on the glass because I can't see into the tank all that well now.

 

[tuningvis]

sounds like slime or cyno ... go to bang guys information thread in the reef tank

 

[ivy2dw7]

Well I rubbed off all the algae that was on the glass, came off very very easily so it was definitely cyano, but there are little spots, size of dimes, where it didn't come off, is THIS coralline?

 

[tuningvis]

if it's purple green or red.. yep
thats the good stuff

 

[ivy2dw7]

It's like a magenta color, looks exactly like the cyano magenta-ish color, but it didn't rub off like the cyano

 

[tuningvis]

could be coralline with cyno on top of it :notsure: