my riccordea... Dead or alive??

[lcstorc]

Originally Posted by Cassette87

Are you talking about the reddish maroon tree like stuff in the bottom left of this pic? Regardless I would love an id on that stuff becausse I have had it for a while. It retracts when touched and seems to be some kind of filter feeder. Mine never moves and is on the edge of a piece of rock and the bottom of the tank.

[Cassette87]

Originally Posted by lcstorc

Are you talking about the reddish maroon tree like stuff in the bottom left of this pic? Regardless I would love an id on that stuff becausse I have had it for a while. It retracts when touched and seems to be some kind of filter feeder. Mine never moves and is on the edge of a piece of rock and the bottom of the tank.

Nope, that stuff just looks like purple grass to me.. I'm not quite sure what excactly it is, but it's been growing, and it's on a couple of my rocks, I've been tempted to clean it up, but i'd like to learn a bit about it first.

The white growths looks to be sponges.. I can't see the 'tree' thingy.

For the hair algae, I would increase the alkalinity and keep a phosphate media in the filter 24/7. Don't use the aluminum based since they can release the po4 back into the water... instead get the ferric oxide/hydroxide (?) media like Pura Phoslock, phosban, or rowaphos media. It will be a red/rust granular media. It works great and will not release po4 back into the water. Test the water for po4 (salifert kit) before starting and then monthly to show when the media should be replaced... or just replace it monthly.

I've posted two more pitures below with items circled, and labled. I will be headed out to my LFS today to try to pick up some of these items! In the first picture below: 1 is the white tree growth i'm talking about 2 is a small bleached ric polyp 3 is the brown growth with what appears to be tiny polyps.

in the second picture, 1 is the larger ric polyp that still remains and 2 is the white slime growth that has spread to the higher rock.

[Cassette87]

Bump again.. still looking for help :-/