imbob95
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I have a reasonably new 10 gallons low flow tank, just a return pump no wavemaker
This project was intended to be a low maintenance tank, so I haven't been doing regular water changes -- I understand this may be a mistake with the amount of corals/livestock I have in there, but it's hard to resist at the local fish store sometimes...
Tank contains one clown, kenya tree, 2 zoas, some gsp, 2 mushrooms, 1 shrimp, 2 margarita snails, and a recently deceased emerald crab
Had a problem with green hair algae overtaking, so had kept the lights off for a while and I put some chaeto and grape caulerpa in the refugium which is helping
Recently this reddish brown algae has been sprouting up, which I need help identifying
It doesn't look like the pictures online of cyano or of something like cotton candy algae, but I might just be mistaken in that
It is growing both deep in the sand and has what appears to be roots on the surface of the sand, I can't work out if this is the same algae or two different ones
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you
This project was intended to be a low maintenance tank, so I haven't been doing regular water changes -- I understand this may be a mistake with the amount of corals/livestock I have in there, but it's hard to resist at the local fish store sometimes...
Tank contains one clown, kenya tree, 2 zoas, some gsp, 2 mushrooms, 1 shrimp, 2 margarita snails, and a recently deceased emerald crab
Had a problem with green hair algae overtaking, so had kept the lights off for a while and I put some chaeto and grape caulerpa in the refugium which is helping
Recently this reddish brown algae has been sprouting up, which I need help identifying
It doesn't look like the pictures online of cyano or of something like cotton candy algae, but I might just be mistaken in that
It is growing both deep in the sand and has what appears to be roots on the surface of the sand, I can't work out if this is the same algae or two different ones
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you
