Macro ID requested

[metrokat]

This little piece of macro has suddenly cropped up in between my acans. It seems to be growing from one of the plugs that the acan came on. What is it and should I get rid of it or try to grow it out?

 

Color is an olive greenish/brownish

Texture is smooth, it is not slimy

 

Thank you

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Looks like some kind of Gelidium.

 

Pic on the right side of this page:

http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/de.../?species_id=15

[metrokat]

Hmm, it's not as feathery, more flat leafed.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Some Gelidium is pretty flat. IDK I could definitely be wrong.

 

[metrokat]

okay I'll look up gelidium some more, thank you

[patback]

It sorta looks like the "turf" algae that broke out in my tank. Nip it in the butt, IMO. It jumped from one lone rock, to two, and now every single one of my rocks has some to a degree.

[drunkenmonk21]

I can't see it well on my phone but it may be a type of dictoya

[Islandoftiki]

I can't make out the structure too well. Is it perhaps Dictyota as Drunkenmonk21 suggested?

 

Here's a bunch of pics.

 

http://www.horta.uac.pt/species/algae/Dict...a_dichotoma.htm

[johnmaloney]

Looks like some kind of Gelidium.

 

Pic on the right side of this page:

http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/de.../?species_id=15

 

+1, or some other related wirey red. Either way, pain to remove..fairly slow growth unlikely to spread throughout a tank fast but persistent nonetheless.

[metrokat]

But it's olive green in color.

[lakshwadeep]

It's definitely a red algae (Rhodophyta). Some of them have a sheen, not just green but also blue, that masks the base color.

[metrokat]

Okay, I pulled it out and took pictures.

 

[metrokat]

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[randythefishdude]

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keep bumping

 

 

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[keydiver]

the blades form like fuchea would, but fuchea lacks the wirey holdfast that it appears to have