what is this

[harleymike]

Purple color.  Velvety looking. Creeping over exposed live rock. Not effecting any thing else. Not hurting anything. 

 

[reeffreak]

Cyano algea ? Or some sort of red algea?

 

[harleymike]

Its not cyano.
Its like a velvet hair that creeps along the rock. It can not be scrubbed off. I tried with a tooth brush.
I have seen my hippo and foxface eating it.

 

[Duke]

Looks like a red turf algae maybe? I've had it on rocks at one point.. It just kinda all went away on its own tho

 

[harleymike]

hope it goes away. I have some hair algae.
I'm going too cut my feeding down. Hopefully with the new skimmer it will get better.
I was just curious. It is strange looking stuff. Not like normal hair stuff or anything else i had seen.
thanks

 

[Duke]

hope it goes away. I have some hair algae.
I'm going too cut my feeding down. Hopefully with the new skimmer it will get better.
I was just curious. It is strange looking stuff. Not like normal hair stuff or anything else i had seen.
thanks

do you have a lawnmower blenny? they rock and i bet it would mow down on that stuff.

 

[harleymike]

No, might have too look into one.
I'm heading too big al;s on friday to pick up that angler fish.
I will see if they have one.

 

[Duke]

No, might have too look into one.
I'm heading too big al;s on friday to pick up that angler fish.
I will see if they have one.

they did have some sort of blenny, maybe shoot aaron a PM.

 

[monizb]

Best thing for that is a sand gobie just got rid of two

Samsung s3

 

[Petercar (RIP Dec 2017)]

[quote author=harleymike link=topic=7117.msg72447#msg72447 date=1386634323]
No, might have too look into one.
I'm heading too big al;s on friday to pick up that angler fish.
I will see if they have one.

they did have some sort of blenny, maybe shoot aaron a PM.
[/quote]that is a green goby.    the sand shifting gobys dont do shit all on my tank.  i guess its a hit and miss

 

[harleymike]

Picking up a lawnmower blenny on friday

 

[Reef Hero]

hope it goes away. I have some hair algae.
I'm going too cut my feeding down. Hopefully with the new skimmer it will get better.
I was just curious. It is strange looking stuff. Not like normal hair stuff or anything else i had seen.
thanks

Careful when cutting back on feeding..... If doing so because of algae outbreaks then I would recommend maybe better nutrient export....
I have seen a lot of corals suffer from reduced feedings to control nutrient issues....


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