Anyone familiar with this? I thought it was a nice macro growing on my live rock, but I’m starting to see it pop up all over the tank, growing on other macros & seagrass and even growing on a sponge. Any ideas?
Red algae (possibly a nuisance algae)
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Anyone familiar with this? I thought it was a nice macro growing on my live rock, but I’m starting to see it pop up all over the tank, growing on other macros & seagrass and even growing on a sponge. Any ideas?
appears to be some type of gracillaria. if you have a herbivore, it will be happy to chow the algae down.
Definitely looks similar to gracilaria but it’s much, much finer than species of gracilaria I’ve seen. I’d say the little frills are about 1mm across. Also must have a way of reproducing via some kind of spawning because it’s showing up all over the tank. Definitely getting a little nervous, especially since this is a planted tank with higher than normal nutrients. I may have to add some additional macros and see if I can get them to outcompete this stuff.
Couple pics of it sprouting up on other plants/macros.
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