Yes, I know. Another algae ID thread.

[Tom Caknakis]

Hello R2R, I would really appreciate any help with ID of this annoying algae. Few facts:

- about month ago took out liverock replaced with new ceramic reef
- tangs eat it
- its almost impossible remove that algae manually, its very well attached to ceramic surface.

Thanks for help

 

[Dan_P]

Hello R2R, I would really appreciate any help with ID of this annoying algae. Few facts:

- about month ago took out liverock replaced with new ceramic reef
- tangs eat it
- its almost impossible remove that algae manually, its very well attached to ceramic surface.

Thanks for help

Hair alga is the green filament. The brown slime on the filament might be dinoflagellates.

 

[Hot2na]

I see a little GHA and what i used to call brown -snot algae...silicates may fuel the snot.