Macroalgae ID/Help

[gouldaz]

One of my zoo branches have been getting drowned out by macroalgae growing around it. Yesterday I decided to pick it off the best I could. Ever since picking this macroalgae off, it has completely transformed in appearance. The leaves that were there before seem to no be transparent and have strands growing off the end. I hope it is on it's way out, but am afraid I may have made the problem worse. Here are pics. of the algae before and after. I could use help identifying....

Before
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/gouldaz/Macroalgae2.jpg

After
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/gouldaz/MAcroalgae.jpg

[graveyardworm]

How much time elapsed between photos?

[Samala]

Wow. The first shots look like a kind of Udotea species that likes to pop up from LR every now and then.

The second photo is incredible. I really dont know enough to propose if that is a secondary algae that also popped up or if those are reproductive structures for the algae seen in the first picture.

>Sarah

[gouldaz]

Time elapsed between pics. is about 2 months. The leafy stuff you see in pic. 1 got really bad and that is why I picked it off. I know for sure the stems you see coming off are part of the leafy algae somehow and not a new type.

Since this post, the stems have bleached out along with the leaves. The leaves you could already see bleaching in the pic. They have begun to fall off.

[LeftCoast]

To me, the second photo looks like reproductive structures. Kinda like the ones you see on mosses.