mystery red growth....ID?

bigarn

bigarn

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Originally Posted by coraljunky
kinda resembles plating coraline, not for sure tho.
Not sure either..... good call though.
 
aloysiusii

aloysiusii

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It looks like "cuntalingus" latin for "skin of death"
located in the south pacific ocean usually grows like a weed it]f given the correct water parameters. I would suggest removing it as quickly as you can and if you see a spike in growth in other places your system is at risk of bio-chemical over load and will
crash like the planes did on
9/11
sorry to be so descriptive but it happened to me and it will never happen again.
 
jimmy 4

jimmy 4

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It just popped out of nowhere. I do plan on keeping it. I have some similar stuff on another rock but it doesn’t look quite the same. Ill post a pic later.
I did change salts a few months ago (Instant Ocean to Reef Crystals) and have been changing my water more at a higher s.g. 1.026 I think. Defiantly seeing improvement.
thanks for the info.
 
jimmy 4

jimmy 4

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I also dont know what this is. Algae of some kind im sure.
The water level got low when I went on vacation, and some of it died.
My brother was supposed to add water to the tank, but nothing really died
while I was gone.

What is the bad word in post #6??
 
wfd1008

wfd1008

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i have some on one of my rocks. my lfs said it was probably some type of red kelp. i know that my lawn-mower blenny(R.I.P) loved it, and my hermits destroyed it. i think it's some type of reef candy the way things in my tank went after it. i move the rock to another tank after i thought it was gone, and boom, it re-appeared.
 
v8eater

v8eater

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it is some type of leafy micro algae/sea lettuce. Nothing to be worried about actually means that you have very good water parameters if it is growing. A friend of mine has it growing in his tank also.
 
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