Weird white string like thing on rock and glass

[Bailey D.]

Can anyone please tell me what this stuff is! Is showed up about three weeks ago and is slowly multiplying!

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• Bailey D.
• Dec 8, 2018

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• Bailey D.
• Dec 8, 2018

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Are you using nopox?

 

[Bailey D.]

I don’t know what nopox is sorry, so I don’t use it

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Well that’s actually good then.

If you pull em off , do they have structure or or is it just slime ?

 

[Bailey D.]

When I pull them off It feels how pulling singular strands of hair off your head would feel, so they are not slime.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I can’t see enough detail in the picture, so, are they little branches with “joints” and bends , with tiny “buds”?

 

[Bailey D.]

Here are some more photos, hopefully you can get a clear enough idea of what they look like

 

[Bailey D.]

They kind of just stick up on the rock and glass

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thanks.

My guess is branching hydroids.

If so, toothbrush , scrape , avoid coral foods and extra juice. Usually go away Esp in newer tanks.

More eyes please. #reefsquad.

 

[reef lover]

Looks like hair algae to me...

 

[saltyhog]

If it feels like a hair when removed I think it's a faded/dying algae. I've had some of that in my nano.

 

[Bailey D.]

Well they just kind of showed up one day and have slowly multiplied onto the glass

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

@KJ