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05/13/2007, 05:10 PM
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Macro ID
Not sure what this is. I admit I have not done a look of research on it but thought I would post and see if some one could Id. Not the best pic.
It is fleshy felling like the skin of a peach and it doesn't break easy at all. It is more of a maroon purple then the picture shows. 
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05/13/2007, 10:12 PM
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Its looks like a red bubble algae, possibly a member of the Botryocladia family. In some tanks it does spread and become a nuisance.
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05/14/2007, 06:12 AM
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That is the closest I have found in color but it does not have bubbles at all(at least not yet). Very flat (and thin like a leaf) unless it starts out this way then fills. I have battled green bubble algae(so far so good) and this is totally different. Time will tell if it starts to bubble up then I will remove it. Sense this is a nano I cannot get a tank or something like that to eat it. Thanks for the help.
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05/14/2007, 06:34 AM
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That throws a bit of a wrench into the id. I'll have to let someone with more experience step up. There are alot of reds many of which look very similar to one another.
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05/14/2007, 11:20 AM
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They're flat? Or just that the bubbles are flattened at the top? I can see that in some of the bubbles towards the bottom right of the above photo. I'd still call this a kind of red bubble algae, and Botryocladia is a start. There are several genera that contain algae with this kind of shape and appearance.
If they're totally flat that's different direction. Let us know.  >Sarah
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05/14/2007, 02:02 PM
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Sorry those are zoanthid polyps plus the pic was taken out of water so I could get a good close shot of it. Here is what I found that it looks more like but not sure if this is it or not Porphyra leucosticta
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05/15/2007, 06:14 PM
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Ohhhh... heheheheh. I should have known they were contracted polyps, now I feel silly.
Porphyra isnt a bad guess for genus, other guesses could be Acrosorium. >Sarah
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