ID a couple things

[steelerguy]

I was hoping some one your helpful people on here can help me identify a couple things. Please bear with me on the bad pictures. I took out my digital camera and the battery was dead, no problem I get the spare....not charged either. Anyway, I ended up using my cell phone camera but can post better pictures tomorrow if needed.

The first is a pink rimmed macro algae. It is a very unique color and I had not seen any algae this color before. Anyone know what species it may be?


There there are these two white things coming out of the rocks. They sprouted out soon after the cycle and are slowly getting larger. They are white but as you can see are green on the end with algae. They don't move or anything and are not very pliable.



I know there is too much algae, but the tank is only a couple months old and I am slowly starving the algae out. Skimmer is working overtime and cheato is growing like mad in the refugium. Hopefully those pictures are good enough for an ID, if not I will post better tomorrow. Too later now, battery is charged, but lights are out.

[Hormigaquatica]

Cant really tell what the first one is, sorry.

The second is Neomeris- a calcareous algae (its not green algae growing on top of a white thing- the white thing is Part of the algae). Harmless stuff, usually not too long-lived.

[KDodds]

Definitely Neomeris on the second. The first, to me, looks just like another coralline. Coralline species actually go through color phases as they lay on thicker. For instance, that mustard in the last shot is going to be brown, probably. My reef is predominantly a maroon coralline that starts out fluorescent orange. Your pink edged on looks like it may turn out to be a pink or purple plating type of coralline to me.

[steelerguy]

Originally posted by KDodds
Definitely Neomeris on the second. The first, to me, looks just like another coralline. Coralline species actually go through color phases as they lay on thicker. For instance, that mustard in the last shot is going to be brown, probably. My reef is predominantly a maroon coralline that starts out fluorescent orange. Your pink edged on looks like it may turn out to be a pink or purple plating type of coralline to me.

Thanks guys for the ID on the second. I will probably pluck those off, they are kind of interesting looking, but I have seen some posts where they start to take over a tank. Don't really want that.

The first is not coralline, it is definitely leafy. Unfortunately, the picture is just not focused. I will get a better one with my good camera tonight.

[seapug]

First one looks like Lobophora. It will feel like rubber if you touch it. I have a couple pieces in my tank that are the same color-- hot pink. I periodically rip it out when it grows too big but it comes back. Otherwise it seems harmless and looks kinda cool.

[Paintbug]

first looks like it could be Halymenia sp.. but its hard to say until it gets bigger. even then it may be impossible without looking under a microscope

[rickkott13]

turbo snail will take care of the third one

[Frick-n-Frags]

yeah, get a clearer pic so we can see the leaf details of the first one.

I used to have the golden-brown Lobophora sheets. they will mess with the corals by overgrowing them.
the blurry ends seem to have splits resembling the dreaded dictyota, but wrong color, the yellow stuff in the later pictures is more like what might be lobophora if not coralline.

However, both dictyota and lobophora are brown algae, so I personally would guess in the red algae group.


Yes, too early to tell if it is Halymenia. I have a big colony of Halymenia (threw out ALL the other algae ) and it is thin like uh, what's the tang heaven stuff called, anyway, thin and translucent.
there is a good chance it is one of those weird red calcerous algaes too.