Looking for a ID on these brown spots, it’s essentially covered the rock work and now popping up on the back wall. I’ve been told it’s cyno , some type of sponge, turf algae, and maroon coralline. None of them seem to be correct.
Id Algae?
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SlugSnorter
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Some kind of hard encrusting sponge or algae maybe. Can you scrape it? what is its texture? do snails eat it? either way, limpits and/or chitins and/or urchins would probably eat it if you were looking for a CUC solution
yanni
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Lobophora algae I'd say. Super difficult to remove, is a hitchiking algae, once eradicated, can't return. A pic under whites to confirm would be nice, but it resembles exactly what I had when I faced lobophora.
