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03-08-2003, 10:42 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: northwest indiana
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ID this fluffy pink macro...
ive got several pieces of my LR crawling with this stuff lately...any idea what it is or how to get rid of it?...i doubt anything eats it...
thanks
brad
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03-08-2003, 11:16 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Oh Man I am waiting on this ID, I had this stuff about 3 yrs ago and had no cam to post a pic online  Its kinda neat stuff mine never ran amok and eventually faded away
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03-08-2003, 11:24 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: northwest indiana
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doug
yea, its not too bad...but like all macros a PITA...
it never ceases to amaze me all the different kinds of macros out there...and they all are SO different...
this one comes back after i take it out in a few days...and it hard to grab!... 
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03-08-2003, 11:38 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
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As I recall , its even more ethereal than some of the fuzz algaes, kinda reminded me of cotton candy in some ways.
Of all the times for Horge to head out and play on the reef, If chris or jerel dont know you may have to ask on another network
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03-09-2003, 02:20 AM
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Maybe this is it
Ok its either this:
H. musciformis
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03-09-2003, 02:21 AM
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Or this:
cladophora sericea
Even though it's green there are color variants within the species.
Both of these algaes are considered pest psecies in hawaii. As you can see the turtles love it!
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03-09-2003, 06:28 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: pandle of Florida
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A friend of mine has this in his tank,and it's smoothering everything.Trying to find away to get rid of it.but seems to be a mystery.You touch this stuff,and it just falls apart.And spreads like wild fire....But the thing is what contols it.Or how you can rid of it.His doesn't die off.Continually spreading threw out his tank.A reefer in need of HELP!Maybe somebody of out their can help this guy out.Any clues?Other than putting a sea turtle in his tank?
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03-09-2003, 12:26 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
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Well shoot, mine never reached plague proportions, maybe cause I thought it was kewl and tried collecting peices to give away . Maybe if you like it it will die off 
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03-09-2003, 03:05 PM
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Little Fishy
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"Honey, we're gettin a sea turtle!"....
Acoustic,
great pics, thanks!...thats it!...
i found some good info here...
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=161338
sounds like there are alot of different things that *may* eat it...
the search continues...
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03-09-2003, 03:21 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
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Interesting threads, this one is definatly an archive keeper 
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03-10-2003, 09:38 AM
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Lost Soul
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Hello, I have some of that in my 125. It can become a nuisance if left unchecked. Personally I would continue to remove as much as possible and look for a predator. I haven't found one yet.
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03-10-2003, 10:23 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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That cannot be Hypnea, as it is too fine in texture, and Cladophora doesn't come in that shade.
If it is anything like what plagued Sanjay and Sandy Shoup's favorite LFS, then the sample sent to Dr. Freshwater was claimed to be the sporophyte phase of Asparagopsis (there's only one common tropical species in that genus: A. taxiformis).
The sporophyte phase and the gametophyte phase of the same alga are quite distinct, and alternate as generations. Check out the filamentous red sporophyte fragments, right above the pink gametophyte in the pic below:
I have yet to hear of the larger, gametophyte phase prospering in a hobbyist aquarium. Maybe that is why its fuzzy red phase seems to just go away: the spores it releases are unable to manifest successfully as next-generation gametophytes, and so the line "dies out".
Pity.
It's a fairly beautiful alga in its gametophyte phase, looking at full size like, well .... asparagus spears!
Again, I'm arbitrarily presuming your alga is the same as what Sandy and Sanjay ran into, and was subsequently sampled and identified. If all we have is the pic at the start of this thread, there are maybe 30+ other species (in various phases) that might describe what you actually have there.
It is certainly tough guessing with only a distant pic to go by.
hth,
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03-10-2003, 10:29 AM
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Ghost of reefers past
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Great Horge, that links not working tho
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03-10-2003, 10:43 AM
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Well with the image now cached on my 'puter, there's no way for me to reliably test (and, no, I'm not willing to dump the cache) if it's working now.
you can just visit Chris Lobban's
http://www.uog.edu/classes/botany/im...arag_bothn.jpg
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03-10-2003, 11:39 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: northwest indiana
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horge
thanks for the info...the one on the top of the pic you posted looks like what i got...
so from reading about this menace, heres what ive come up with...
astrea snails may eat it
mexican turbo snails may eat it
tuxedo urchins may eat it (and coraline)
diadema setosum may eat it (is this the long spine urchin?)
hermit crabs may eat it
i plan on reducing my feeding, and setting up my refugium that i keep draggin my feet on...hopefully with some nutrient export that may help...
its really a PITA macro that isnt as easy to just pull out like halimeda or sargassum...and if your not there to catch it then it
just floats around the tank to spread elsewhere...
ive heard from several guys who have taken all there LR out and scrubbed it, that it just came back, so thats out...
i will keep you posted...
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