I was looking at my tank this evening and on my weir, I have a fluorescencent glowing orange glowing algae growing, has anyone had something like this before?? My phone does not pick up just how bright it actually is.
fluorescence algae on back wall?
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With the flaky way it's growing I would say a type of corraline or sponge.
I don’t think this coraline! The whole tank is glowing orange now! The hue in the water is orange!
Bright orange marks on the glass too, the whole tank has an orange hue to it, my camera can’t pick it up, it’s almost like an orange radioactive tank, in my partners words “ what have you done in your tank, something orange looks likes it’s exploded” it’s popping under the antics so it’s nothing like leaching rust.
The strange thing is, the water does not look cloudy like a bacterial bloom yet it looks like a fluorescent orange bacteria bloom...but it’s not cloudy.
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Bright orange marks on the glass too, the whole tank has an orange hue to it, my camera can’t pick it up, it’s almost like an orange radioactive tank, in my partners words “ what have you done in your tank, something orange looks likes it’s exploded” it’s popping under the antics so it’s nothing like leaching rust.
The strange thing is, the water does not look cloudy like a bacterial bloom yet it looks like a fluorescent orange bacteria bloom...but it’s not cloudy.
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Interesting. Have you done anything or added anything to the tank recently?
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Hard to say, but I have had fluorescent orange sponges in the past. If one got cut up or mangled it may spread. There are many Coralline species too with different types of growth. Did you start with live rock? How old is the tank?
Can we get pictures with the whites on?
Even with only whites my camera does not pick it up very well, what ever it is my cleaner shrimp are picking at the orange on the back wall.
Tank is 2 years old, was originally pukani. Only thing I’ve added in the last few weeks is a couple of frags, hydrophora, guttatus.
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Tank is 2 years old, was originally pukani. Only thing I’ve added in the last few weeks is a couple of frags, hydrophora, guttatus.
Hermits and a conch
Thank you.Even with only whites my camera does not pick it up very well, what ever it is my cleaner shrimp are picking at the orange on the back wall.
A closer picture to see the structure of the organism would be appreciated.
Some types of algaes (generally red ime ) will fluoresce when theyre. dying , sevral corallines too.
Generally that’s noted with asterimas leaving pollka dots.
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I've had several spots of bright flourescent orange algae pop up from time to time. Wish it would stick around and grow but it is gone in a few days. May be die back as mentioned above. I Don't know
How weird.
It seems to have gone completely, no reoccurring radioactive algae. I’ve been having problems lately with my corals sulking and since this has vanished, they are looking much better. I wonder if this algae/bacteria had been responsible. Maybe a type of cyano/dinoflagellates
