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Hi, My tank is 6months old and I started it with half fake reef rock and half live Tampa Bay Saltwater rock and some of their sand. I have some algae issues and not sure of one of them. I think the red bubble looking stuff is
Red Grape - Botryocladia But the other green lettuce looking stuff im not sure of. Any ideas?


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I took out about 75% of them and scrubbed it off. Wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it all or not and risk issues.
 
Sea lettuce is correct but it also looks like there's some green bubble algae in there
Thanks yes there is some bubble algae as well.
I got some chaeto today for the fuge and hoping to out compete it.

So is the sea lettuce like the red stuff not a “bad” algae? It was listed as reef safe on their hitchhikers page.
 
Thanks yes there is some bubble algae as well.
I got some chaeto today for the fuge and hoping to out compete it.

So is the sea lettuce like the red stuff not a “bad” algae? It was listed as reef safe on their hitchhikers page.
Yes sea lettuce is the good stuff. Chaeto, sea lettuce, and caulerpa are all good macro algaes
 

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