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What type of algae is this?


jball1125

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Anything I can do to help get rid of it? Its the fluffy stuff, there is also some long stringy strands that will get loner in places with a lot of flow.

 

Anything have an appetite for it? Not sure my snails are going for it.

 

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Might be chrysophytes. chucks addiction has a good snipped about them. you can also google "golden hair algae" Hard to tell with your color lighting though, it may just be a tuft forming species of cyano. The hair seems to be associated with that film that is growing around it, I wouldn't think a macroalgae would have that feature, that is why I don't think it is run of the mill hair algae. You have some stringy growth that kind of look like "dinos", but it is hard to tell really.

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Might be chrysophytes. chucks addiction has a good snipped about them. you can also google "golden hair algae" Hard to tell with your color lighting though, it may just be a tuft forming species of cyano. The hair seems to be associated with that film that is growing around it, I wouldn't think a macroalgae would have that feature, that is why I don't think it is run of the mill hair algae. You have some stringy growth that kind of look like "dinos", but it is hard to tell really.

 

+1 on the Dino comment John, I do think that part of what I see are indeed Dinoflagellates.

 

Agreed that on the algae it is hard to tell due to the lighting and the pic being a bit difficult to interpret

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