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08/10/2007, 09:23 PM
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Algae? ID?
Can anyone ID the stuff in the photo? At first glance the clear stuff looks like gel. When I look at it much closer, I can tell that it's like a fuzz. I touched it with my finger and it feels fuzzy. It's only growing on one of my rocks so far and it's in a patch.
My tank has been running for 10 weeks and I have two juvenile clowns, a fire shrimp and skunk shrimp. I have a clean up crew consisting of 5 turbos, about 20 margaritas, 30 nasarrius, and 10 hermits. I barely feed a pinch of food every other day. I have a sump with a fuge and a ball of chaeto. Recently, my algae outbreaks have been more intense. By that I mean, after I clean or scrub the stuff off the glass and the overflows, it returns in the next day or two....difficult to keep up with. I run my lights for 8 hrs....outer orbit T5's and Mh's. The light is 7" above the tank. The fixture is new. I have read about newly established tanks and algae outbreaks being normal. But I don't recognize the stuff in the photo from any of the pics I find. I have tested and my parameters are: Ammonia = 0 Nitrite = 0 Nitrate = 0 Phosphate = 0 DI Phosphate = 0 Alk = 2.97 pH = 7.9 salinity = 1.025 calcium = 450  
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08/10/2007, 10:50 PM
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Well...I pulled out the ol' magnifier...I can't get a real good pic. But what's growing under that hazy looking stuff is a little brown clump. It's plantlike and it looks like a miniature bush. Then the brown fades into a milky white. The white stuff is furry or 'fuzzy'. I was wrong about it being on only one rock. It's on several of the rocks but just more pronounced on the rock in the pic. Depending on the angle you look at it, you may not be able to see the white stuff. Then it just looks like a brown plant. Some of the hermits and snails are working on it...so I would think it is some kind of algae. Who knows.
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08/10/2007, 11:01 PM
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Here's a pic of one of the 'clumps'. The other patches of this stuff have the same clumps under all that milky white stuff. Actual size of that is about the size of a pencil eraser.
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08/10/2007, 11:36 PM
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When I first setup my tank I put in a dead starfish for decoration. (I have a collection of starfish, seahorses, shells, etc from my annual trips to the beach.) I noticed after a few days or so something that looks like the stuff in your pictures all over the starfish. It wasn't on anything else. I picked up the starfish to find out in was halfway broken down. The entire top was pretty much gone, and the once hard arms were soft.
My guess is that stuff is related to dead organisms breaking down in saltwater. I just took the entire starfish out, so I have no idea how you would get rid of it. When I was taking the starfish out, some of the slimy substance slid off and back into my tank, but it just disappeared and never spread to anything else.
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