red algae ???

by **Snowboss4492** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:58 pm

i have spots of brick red close to marroon growing on my live rock right under the lights at the highest point in the tank..........parameters are good.........the tank has gotten reasonably hot on me the last few weeks - - like 80-84 - - i try to keep it at 78 and thers only about 4 inches of water over this area - - - - - it doesn't like that slimy crap in a new tank cycle

any ideas?????????

thanks

Boss

by **saltwaterpimp** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:50 pm

if its not slimy and wont blow away with the baster then its the good stuff. my tank had the stuff all over

by **Snowboss4492** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:01 pm

must be the good stuff.....lol

by **schigara** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:11 pm

How about a pic of the red stuff?

by **Snowboss4492** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:18 pm

ill try to get one on here - - im going to try to figure out photobucket so we don't have to wait 4 days to get it - - -lol this aught to be interesting

by **saltwaterpimp** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:46 pm

got that figured out yet boss...lol..pics would be nice

by **Snowboss4492** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:47 pm

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd32 ... ble026.jpg

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd32 ... ble020.jpg

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd32 ... ble010.jpg

the first two are bad pics but you can see the red stuff { in the first pic there is a bad flash reflection under the powerhead, thats not algae, sorry} - - -the last pics is just cool, those rocks came from Misquamicut beach Rhode island where we vaca'd a few weeks ago, the hermit crab likes to tear down the pile about every other day to get to the food pellets, it'slike a game for us.....pile em up and watch him take em down..............keeps him busy .......lol

good algae or bad algae????

Boss

by **tangerine** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:00 pm

can't make it out clearly but it does not look like coralline algae to me. seems more like nuisance algae. what's yr tank water parameters like.

did it start to appear only when yr temp gotten higher?

by **Snowboss4492** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:57 pm

sorry bout the pics.........the parameters are right on ammo = 0 nitrate= 0 to a trace, nitrite = 0 and PH is right on - - -Pimp told me to test the calcium levels, i don't have a test kit for that yet so it'll have to wait

I can't really say if it started with the temp increase or not i just happened to notice it and then noticed how hot the tank was - - Pimp seems to think it's not a bad algae . . .it's semi hard and can be scratched, so it's not slim or ceyano{SP} and it's seems to be on just one piece of rock

it's not purple like coraline - -more of a brick color

Boss

red algae ???

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red algae ???

red algae ???

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