Id Help Algae!!!!

[nmhs2]

Anyone know why there are like dark red marounish spots on the rock, you can see them they are on left and right side. I dont know what it is, some sort of corraline algae maybe is it good or bad?

[NirvanaFan]

looks like a type of coralline algae. I have some in my tank. I think it gives it a nice color change from the regular purple.

[Sk8r]

The dark red stuff seemed, in my tank, to flourish right along with the coralline algae: it's harmless, imho, not as desirable as coralline, but seems to be kind of a precursor to it: the coralline would sort of edge it over.

[steven_dean17]

My fox eats that stuff pretty well. I like it myself, I have 3-4 large patches of it. I actually think its better looking then the coralline. I went to a FS the other day and they had a really bright darkgreen slime algae in a few of their tanks that I thought was real pretty. I asked the guy what kind it was and he just said it was some form of algae he kept around cause it didn't bother anything and was kinda cool.

[demonsp]

Is it hard or soft. Hard to tell with the flash.

[nmhs2]

hard i think

[demonsp]

If its hard then its purple coraline , and a sing your tanks on the right track. Coraline comes in purple , brown , and sought after pink. I get pink growing only on PVC i use for hiding spots and a shelf.

[demonsp]

Originally posted by nmhs2
hard i think

GO ahead. Touch it. HEHE

[uscharalph]

Originally posted by demonsp
If its hard then its purple coraline , and a sing your tanks on the right track. Coraline comes in purple , brown , and sought after pink. I get pink growing only on PVC i use for hiding spots and a shelf.

I get orange too sometimes.