[toyfreak]

I recently moved some stuff around and had an explosion of this. It looks like macroalgae on the glass but I have never seen it before in any of my tanks. Its getting on frags now too. Hair algae looks finer and thinner in material and this is stringy and bent like stringy macroalgae. Its a little thinner than chaetomorph.

Can you tell me if this is nusance algae because if not im going to shave it off glass and put in my sump.

Much appreciated..

 

[soverjas]

There are hundreds if not thousands of different kinds of algae. I don't believe thats Cheato

 

[weimers75]

+1, not chaeto. Chaeto does not attach to anything.

 

[Jessemac]

Interesting. I would say not cheato as well. As soverjas mentioned, there are many types of algae. If it is simply growing on your back glass and you like the look, I would say leave it with caution. Keeping any eye on everything. Other wise, scrap away. You probably had a spike in nitrates and phosphates while moving things around that cause this bloom. It may die off once all the nutrients is used up.

 

[motocrosstcw]

I also have this style algea, there seems to be no problem with it the firsh and crabs love it.
You could try scraping it and drying it and feeding it to your fish as there sea weed supliment.

 

[dputt88]

it looks very interesting. i just spent 5 min staring at your algae. lol im dumb.

 

[motocrosstcw]

it looks very interesting. i just spent 5 min staring at your algae. lol im dumb.

It is actually pretty cool looking. I like it cause it gives the natural look of the ocean, you dont see people going out there scraping the sea floor to make it clean. JMO

 

[Isabella8688]

Nice pic
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