3 Different Algae Id's please

[KeLusth]

Thanks for any help!








Its the red stick like looking things they are hard to the touch, and under halides it was a huge mass and the arms criss crossed over eachother, under pc it doesnt grow very well.

[graveyardworm]

The first 2 pics are Codium, 3rd pic is likely to be Porphyra, and 4th pic not sure maybe Scinaia.

[KeLusth]

the first two ids seem dead on but the third I have also had that kind before but this one i have now is not the same its really hard to the touch and its like individual hallow stems. I think it might be calcerous though im not sure. Are most hard algaes calcium based?

[graveyardworm]

Not sure about hard being a rule that the algae is calcearous. Codium BTW is a calcearous algae. I've got one very similar to the last one pictured, and so far no positive id. I call it red branching, maybe scinaia. Close enough. There are alot of very similar reds which can be very difficult to distinguish from one another.

[WarEagleNR88]

I'm also curious as to what these two are called and they look sort of similar to your dilemma. Both seem to be calcareous. I think the second is a type of Dictyota. I've no idea what the first one is. It is very small and wire-like. I know the brown alga in the first is the beginning of sargassum. The fourth one of yours, does it look like this...



or this...

?

I also have some codium, and it is awesome. Mine has started to grow holdfasts--at least I think so, it's bound to the rock now--and a part of the original piece you see I broke off. I put it in a different area in my tank and it is growing as well! Happy, happy, joy, joy! Down with caulerpa (BORING), up with calcareous algaes!



Hope that helps some.