Algae ID Please

[wattson]

Hello, I have some live rock in my separate refugium with Halemedia and gracillara macro algae in it..Recently about a moth ago ,,a larger piece of gracillara algae became loose and tumbled around the whole tank ,,bumping off of rocks and all else in tank..
Now a week later I have this red algea growing all over my rocks and starting to be problem it appears..
It only grows to about a half inch thick and spreads fairly fast on the rock and my CUC doesnt touch it..

 

[cracker]

Looks like a type of Gracilaria ? Hope I got the spelling right ! LOL Vegetarian fish love that stuff.

 

[wattson]

Thanks for the reply,,,I forgot to mention there was a different kind of low growing red fern type of algae in the refugium too,,but this is slow growing looks different than this

 

[cracker]

There are differing types & slow growing depending on conditions. I like the looks of the stuff. I think Dragon's Breath is one type .Sorry I don't have a link for You.

 

[wattson]

I have 4-5 different types of snails and hermits ,,and none will eat it..

 

[wattson]

also to mention,,,it actually grew on top of my powerhaed in the frugium too.. this is not my picture but looked very much the same on my power head

 

[wattson]

for a scale of size,the algae in my first few pictures ,,both pieces would fit on a nickel sized coin..

 

[wattson]

bump

 

[MicroPico]

You might try trading some to your LFS for store credit.

 

[wattson]

bump

 

[tyler1503]

Looks like the stuff I find in the lake near me. Keep an eye on it, if it's the same stuff, it grows REALLY quickly.

 

[wattson]

its a pretty fast grower,,my CUC dont touch it,,really like to know what it is,,looked repeated online and found nothing..
some one please ID and find way to get it gone

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

its a pretty fast grower,,my CUC dont touch it,,really like to know what it is,,looked repeated online and found nothing..
some one please ID and find way to get it gone

K well thats kinda got me beat. These more than a few that look a lot like it. But I think the end run is this. Youul have to try the hit or miss introduction of a species to eat it.Thats cool if you like snails and slugs and stuff fish are hard if your already stocked... Or decide on the nuclear option.(vibrant etc)

An odd observation.
In the young life of my 55 I've had several problem algaes kind of cycle themselves out of my tank. I do find some here and there and appears out of no where and doesn't last now.(cool thing for nerds) but does not remain dominant so to speak..

My current algae is bryopsis and Im throwing in the towel on it as my friend did great work in the fluxional(auto coreecth :mad thread. But it seems treatments that are species specific are a bit rare.

But no harm in trying to figure it out with fingers crossed.

@bios Any ID on this algae? Who else would know?

 

[Merck]

I wish i had your luck that stuff is like gold around here.

 

[BillFragnormous]

Looks like Halymenia aka Dragons Breath Algae...good stuff for a refrugium

 

[bios]

hi @saltyfilmfolks it seem to be a kind of algae I have seen some years ago forget the name but will try to find it
problem with this kind of algae is that is not palatable for tank inhabitants

 

[donnievaz]

Got any tangs in your tank?

 

[wattson]

ill get a good picture of the algae on the rocks,,so everyone can see how it actually grows and looks..

 

[Brian W]

Looks kinda like red dragon macroalgae to me

 

[wattson]

just took these pictures of how it grows on the rocks and it only gets about 3/4" thick on the rocks,,also the sample I pulled off rocks is only about a half dollar coin sized piece..