Algae ID

[unclepregs]

Can anyone tell me what kind of hairy looking algae this is? Snails don’t seem to care at all about it and it doesn’t look like GHA. Can’t put my finger on it at all.

 

[jabberwock]

Regular old dry rock blues in my estimation. It'll get worse... Not much to do about it.

 

[unclepregs]

Yeah not worried about the green algae on the rocks but the long hair like algae is sprouting up everywhere and just not trying to have it overtake the tank if I can help it. Thanks for the insight

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Just part of the cycle. Mine did the same

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Yeah not worried about the green algae on the rocks but the long hair like algae is sprouting up everywhere and just not trying to have it overtake the tank if I can help it. Thanks for the insight

It's some type of hair algae and, as has been mentioned, you'll see more of it, and many other kinds of algae in the first year. Keep an eye on things, don't add (many) corals until things stabilize, add cuc as needed, and manually remove what you can't tolerate.

It's a long process.