Anyone know this algae?

[vdituri]

Anyone seen this type of algae before?
Doesn't seem to be spreading or anything, but it's the first kind to grow other than coralline. The fish and cleanup crew seem to eat everything else.

Any info is appreciated. Thanks

 

[sasquatch]

Yours looks well chewed! similar to this?

 

[vdituri]

I don't think it is. It doesn't look like it's being chewed on.
Never seen any kind of leaves either.
It looks like branching chaetomorph with a central stem attached to the rock.
None of my tank inhabitants seem to ever pick at it.
But it doesn't seem feathered like the pictures of bryopsis I've seen. That was my first thought.
What is that kind? Need to see the trunk.

 

[sasquatch]

that ones caulerpa serrulata, maybe you could check with Bob the plumer?

 

[dragonladylea]

Possibly a kind of Cladophoropsis? Can you get a closer picture?

 

[vdituri]

It does look like it is a variety of Cladophoropsis.
Here's what I found online.
My pic is only about 1" tall specimen.

 

[michael_cb_125]

Megan has some of that in her tank. It does not grow very fast. Snails wont touch it, but her new Urchin sure will!

 

[vdituri]

What kind of urchin?

It doesn't seem to grow fast at all. Just wanted to make sure I didn't have green death forming in my tank before it's too late. lol

 

[michael_cb_125]

A Blue Tux. Megan had this little rock with that type of algea in her nano. When we put the urchin in her 40 gllon I wanted to see if it would eat so I put the rock and algea in the tank. He has been going to work.

 

[Boomer]

Vic

You were right the first time I think, a cheato. Look at the "stems". They are bead like, which cheato's are and Clads really are not. Still need a better pic.

ulvophytes pict