Bryopsis verses Hair Algae?

[kelvindodd]

Can anyone confirm/deny that the following picture is of bryopsis? It doesn't have the fern-like stems that I hear everyone say is indicative of bryopsis. However, its not soft and easy to tear like I understand hair algae to be. This stuff is thin in texture, grows in thick mat and is nearly impossible tear/prune back.

Anyone got any ideas?

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[ripped tide]

It looks more like HA. Nice blue shrooms though

 

[kelvindodd]

Thanks, I guess there's multiple types of hair algae. I just got the Chuck Norris variety.

Yeah, I got one of the blue shrooms as my first coral, hid it under that ledge in the back corner of my tank (so it wouldn't populate out of control-yeah right) and I swear I could supply an LFS with all the shrooms they could sell. Prolific little suckers...

 

[ripped tide]

That looks like this HA that I had once. Resilient as hell. Check your po4 and nitrates. There is a good chance that you won't have much of either... The HA is pulling it out quickly

 

[kelvindodd]

Yeah, I've checked the PO4 and Nitrates to death. But, like you said, its completely traceless. I feed very, very little (every other day), use Rod's and some small pellets occasionally.

I'm not currently running carbon or a phosphate reactor, maybe its time to look into it...

 

[acroholic]

Hair algae IMHO.

 

[kelvindodd]

Dang. Or maybe good...I'm not sure. But if its hair algae, shouldn't turbos eat on it? My turbos seems to glide right over it and gnaw on the soft green algae that usually accumulates on the back of my tank. This stuff is so coarse, I'm not sure if anything could eat it.

 

[ripped tide]

Urchins and Seahares are options. Research them first