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Old 11-10-2008, 07:23 AM   #1
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Purple bubbles, and hairy looking stuff??


hi guys ive recently noticed some purple bubbles form on one of my pieces of LR, also on a diffrent piece theres a kind of purple skins forming? any idea what it is? good or bad?
1st two pics are the bubbles, last one if the hairy stuff

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Old 11-10-2008, 08:59 AM   #2
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first 2 look like a type of bubble algae and the third looks like cyano to me
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Old 11-10-2008, 10:58 AM   #3
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Cyano (bad), macro (good, but maybe not in the display) and bubble algae (bad).
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Old 11-10-2008, 06:55 PM   #4
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what do you suggest i do?, also what causes this stuff?
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Old 11-13-2008, 08:27 AM   #5
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any one???
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