Dark purple and fuzzy.

[MysterioMask]

I have this dark purple fur like something on a few things. It seems to grow in sort of a sheet. When it starts it starts out near black but as it gets bigger it takes on this deep purple. Color. And looks a lot like fur. Sticks well to turbulent surfaces and will come off in large chunks of directly agitated. What is it and what eats it?

 

[Jinxs]

That looks kind of like cyanobacteria or Mexican slime algae. It just looks a bit more flowy than it normally is. If that's what it is my experience was this: my hermits picked it off of all surfaces and my chalk goby cleared it from the sand.

 

[MysterioMask]

That looks kind of like cyanobacteria or Mexican slime algae. It just looks a bit more flowy than it normally is. If that's what it is my experience was this: my hermits picked it off of all surfaces and my chalk goby cleared it from the sand.

It's not slimy it's more furry as stated even to the touch or when broken apart it doesn't act like a slime should or how cyano should if turkey basted.

Someone suggested red turf algae. But I don't know. The whole piece is barely on the rock and holding on right. I had thought maybe nerite snail or cowry might go for it or maybe an emerald crab but nothing has really gone near it that I noticed.

If it is red turf someone suggested turbo snails.

 

[Jinxs]

We have a tulip snail that eats everything. Mind you, he ate our other snail but he eats all forms of algae. I've never had red turf algae so I'm not familiar with it.