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09-03-2007, 06:05 PM
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It sounds to me like cotton ball or cotton candy algea (don't ask me for the latin or proper name for this crap). Sort of a reddish purple and does grow sort of like cotton candy. It is a pain in the rear. The only thing I found that seemed to eat it was a sea hare and/or MEXICAN turbo snails. I added both at the same time and one or the other of them ate it all up. I have read that it is the turbo snails (and you have to make sure they are the Mexican turbos) but I am sure that the sea hare ate it as well. I know that there was a couple of threads on RC at about the same time that I was battling this and that is what made me try these methods.
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09-04-2007, 01:53 PM
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I still don't have a picture, but it is much more coarse than the pic you put up. It's strands are about 1-2 mm thick and it doesn't float away at all. I have seen it as ornamental until recently. I'll keep working on the pic. (turbos don't like it)
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This all started with a ten gallon and two clowns.
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09-04-2007, 07:43 PM
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try looking up ochtodes secundiramea or wrightiella blodgettii... I have battled the first algea and won it was a long battle. I basicly just hand picked it off make sure not to allow the little peices to get back into the aquarium because it will spread... and for the problem spots i fryed them with a small blow torch (very effective for killing algea if you can remove the rock from the tank)
kris
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