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05-05-2006, 06:00 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Andover, KS
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strange brown little things
I tried searching but could not find anything that matched this stuff.... It started a week or so ago... there are these little brown, for lack of a better description, bran flake looking things starting to grow on parts of my rocks. It actually looks like someone crunched up some bran flakes and threw them in the tank... little brown freckle things... they are not moving so i don't think it is a critter... some kind of algae perhaps??? Anyone know what it might be? A picture would not show it I don't think because it is just growing in little patches.
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Jenni  AKA "Reefmama"
180 gallon AGA RR mixed reef inwall, 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank sump, 10 gallon hex fuge, Quiet one 5000 return pump, PCI PS-3000 skimmer with Octopus needlewheel pump, 72" Constellation from Aquactinics, 2 3250 gph powerheads, 2 250 watt heaters, 200 lbs live rock, 200 lbs pulverized limestone
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05-05-2006, 07:14 PM
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Professor Chaos
 
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sounds like flatworms. we really need a pic. they are pretty easy to tell.
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05-05-2006, 07:26 PM
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Professor Chaos
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if they are flatworms then you can get a really neat nudi to eat them.!!!
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05-05-2006, 08:42 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Are they rounded on one end? I had something like that and I was told it was some type of macro algie. But without a picture cannot be sure.
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05-05-2006, 08:45 PM
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Admin/ Super mod
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could be the LR puking up ditrial
but really need a picture
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05-06-2006, 01:32 AM
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Shark
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NO not flatworms I have had those before... this is just on the rock... think of something like crunched up bran flakes sprinkled over the rock...it doesn't move and is in little"patches'
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Jenni AKA "Reefmama"
180 gallon AGA RR mixed reef inwall, 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank sump, 10 gallon hex fuge, Quiet one 5000 return pump, PCI PS-3000 skimmer with Octopus needlewheel pump, 72" Constellation from Aquactinics, 2 3250 gph powerheads, 2 250 watt heaters, 200 lbs live rock, 200 lbs pulverized limestone
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05-06-2006, 01:42 AM
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Shark
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come on someone give me a clue what this is........
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Jenni AKA "Reefmama"
180 gallon AGA RR mixed reef inwall, 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank sump, 10 gallon hex fuge, Quiet one 5000 return pump, PCI PS-3000 skimmer with Octopus needlewheel pump, 72" Constellation from Aquactinics, 2 3250 gph powerheads, 2 250 watt heaters, 200 lbs live rock, 200 lbs pulverized limestone
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05-06-2006, 07:50 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Plate algea?
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05-06-2006, 11:26 AM
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Jenni, I am off to work right now and will only add, that if it is a very dark brown and maybe algae. Picture will help,
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05-06-2006, 12:33 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I will try a get a picture later when the lights come on but this stuff is really small so don't think it will show up.
thanks everyone... anyone else have any ideas?
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Jenni AKA "Reefmama"
180 gallon AGA RR mixed reef inwall, 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank sump, 10 gallon hex fuge, Quiet one 5000 return pump, PCI PS-3000 skimmer with Octopus needlewheel pump, 72" Constellation from Aquactinics, 2 3250 gph powerheads, 2 250 watt heaters, 200 lbs live rock, 200 lbs pulverized limestone
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05-09-2006, 06:20 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2004
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update on the "bran flake thingys" on my live rock.... when I blow them with a turkey baster they blow off into the water column...little tiny crunched up bran flake looking things all floating in the water...anyone have any more ideas what they could be? They are about the color of bran flakes if they were crunched up too.
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Jenni AKA "Reefmama"
180 gallon AGA RR mixed reef inwall, 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank sump, 10 gallon hex fuge, Quiet one 5000 return pump, PCI PS-3000 skimmer with Octopus needlewheel pump, 72" Constellation from Aquactinics, 2 3250 gph powerheads, 2 250 watt heaters, 200 lbs live rock, 200 lbs pulverized limestone
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05-09-2006, 06:23 PM
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How are those pics coming?
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05-09-2006, 06:32 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I tried but they are too tiny to show up.... just think of crunched up bran flakes into tiny little pieces and scattered over the live rock...
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Jenni AKA "Reefmama"
180 gallon AGA RR mixed reef inwall, 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank sump, 10 gallon hex fuge, Quiet one 5000 return pump, PCI PS-3000 skimmer with Octopus needlewheel pump, 72" Constellation from Aquactinics, 2 3250 gph powerheads, 2 250 watt heaters, 200 lbs live rock, 200 lbs pulverized limestone
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05-09-2006, 07:00 PM
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Admin/ Super mod
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Jenni if you are going to tom's take them wioth you. he might be able to look at them under a scope. if not see if there is anyone close that will be going...
i did not forget about you..i have been trying to look up things also...
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05-10-2006, 12:03 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Andover, KS
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Tim, I WISH I was going to Tom's... if it had been a few weeks later I might have been able to go... 
I have been searching and searching but still don't know what the heck this is...
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Jenni AKA "Reefmama"
180 gallon AGA RR mixed reef inwall, 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank sump, 10 gallon hex fuge, Quiet one 5000 return pump, PCI PS-3000 skimmer with Octopus needlewheel pump, 72" Constellation from Aquactinics, 2 3250 gph powerheads, 2 250 watt heaters, 200 lbs live rock, 200 lbs pulverized limestone
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