Please ID

[beyer]

There are a bunch of yellow sandber looking things attached to my glass. What are these things? Could this be from my Pulsing Xenia? Tried to get the best shot I could with my iPhone. Any help would be great!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

its a bit tough to see but, it looks like either aiptasia or an algae coming in.

 

[beyer]

The phone was nearly zoomed all the way in because they are very small. This was the best shot of many I could manage. Some are also on the sand bed as well.

 

[beyer]

Also, if you think it's an algae, my tank is about 2 to 3 months old if that matters or is a key time for algae to bloom

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Also, if you think it's an algae, my tank is about 2 to 3 months old if that matters or is a key time for algae to bloom

Yea understood.
You'll have to judge by eye Im afraid. An Aiptasia will def look like an aiptasia.

And yea if it an algae its a common time to get it. But definatly do keep trying to get it out of there.
a cheap magnifying glass works great. 20x if you can find one. A 10x is common. sometimes you can evem put it over the phone as a no budget macro lens.

 

[ciscomania]

looks like aiptasia to me...but what do i know.

 

[Mikedawg]

The phone was nearly zoomed all the way in because they are very small. This was the best shot of many I could manage. Some are also on the sand bed as well.

Ok, blew up your pic and still can't tell. Do they "retreat" and become smaller when you move something near them? If so, could be aiptasia and there are fortunately many good methods to get rid of them.

 

[telsonman]

Kind of looks like aptasia, but its hard to tell from the pic. I've never seen it attached to glass though. I have seen clumps of hair algae on glass.

I'm curious if they are hitchhiker yellow polyps. Google image search yellow polyps.

 

[beyer]

Don't ask me how I knew but I took a lens from an old laser pointer and put it over my phone camera to zoom in clearer. Here is the enhanced zoom of them from the outside of the glass they're adhered to. They don't seem to retract when I aggravate them I don't think.

 

[beyer]

 

[beyer]

The only shots I can clearly get with the lens are from the outside glass right on top of where their adhering to the glass on the inside.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

those are GREAT!

Algae. Siphon them. I would leave ONE for ID.
I have only seen Bryopsis do that.

 

[beyer]

I'm going to do a water change and transfer water to a 10g quarantine today so I'll try that then. I'm not sure if the siphon will get them off the glass though. I used a dowel rod to aggravate them, tried to get one off and had to scrape it with the end of the dowel before it finally came off.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea it's a trick. If you hold a scraper in your hand you also hold a 1/4 in tube in the same hand.
It's a trick folks use for bubble algae too. You can also tape the tube to the dowell and use the other hand.

If it were a confirmed Gha I'd say just scrape. But....