Red hair or.....

[Titleist1964]

Sorry I originally posted in the wrong section.

...something else?
I knew the risks going in with live rock and I'm controlling it one step at a time. Already tackled a couple gorilla crabs and I know there's one more, he's getting brave and coming out more at night, I'll get him.

Tank is a little over 6 weeks, 9 snails, 2 clowns, 1 fire shrimp and 7 to 9 corals if you count all different Zoa families.
Salt- 1.023
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - .25
Nitrate -5.0 (water change and full tank cleaning today.
Phos - .25
Alk - 9

Just wondering about this.

 

[KrisReef]

From what I can see that is not hair algae but some red macro algae or other thing? At the tanks young age I would not be surprised if it grows and dies out, never to return in the next few months. Lots of life that cycles through the succession stages of a new system will appear and then disappear in the first years of a live rock based tank.

 

[Titleist1964]

From what I can see that is not hair algae but some red macro algae or other thing? At the tanks young age I would not be surprised if it grows and dies out, never to return in the next few months. Lots of life that cycles through the succession stages of a new system will appear and then disappear in the first years of a live rock based tank.

TY, I went live rock/live sand . Wanted to skip most of the ugly stage.