What is this?

[Bruner54]

This little guy started popping up on my liverock and have no idea what it is. He is purple with some orange spot it looks like and he is slowly growing. Thanks

 

[Palyzoa]

Mushroom? hard to tell from this pic

 

[Bruner54]

Heres another another pic if its any easier lol

 

[cmcoker]

Could be botryocladia skottsbergii, real pain, at least it was for me. Here's a pic off google

 

[Bruner54]

It does look like that to me how did you get rid of it?

 

[cmcoker]

Honestly, I ended up breaking down the tank. Tried water changes, peroxide, and manual removal but it came back. It was in a fishless nano, and didn't want to cross contaminate into my other tanks, so cut my losses pretty quickly and threw away most of it. Bleached and vinegared the filter, powerheads and heater, that's about all I kept.

The bubbles have a viscous liquid in them and will spread if popped. If I wasnt concerned about cross contamination, I would have kept at trying to get rid of it but I really didn't want to chance it getting in my 55g main display

 

[OREGONIC]

I had a few of those on a rock a while back, used a baster to suck them off the rock and have seen none since.

 

[Best Fish-Jake]

I've seen emerald crabs munch on these and if I'm not mistaken, fox faces should plow through them as they would bubble algae.

 

[Bruner54]

Thanks for all the info!