Can someone help me identify it? (Branches with white dots)

[jcosta98]

Hi everyone,

So recently I've been getting more and more of this algae, it looks like it prefers low light/shaded areas of the aquarium. Can you help me identify so I know how to deal with it?

Thank you !

 

[Reef - Tripp]

They seem vermetids

 

[jcosta98]

They are not solid so I think not.. they are always waving by the current , no "solid" structure

 

[jcosta98]

Does anyone have any idea? Clean up crew look like not eating it, also can't find any information about this..

 

[jcosta98]

Bump , any idea?

 

[Dan_P]

Hi everyone,

So recently I've been getting more and more of this algae, it looks like it prefers low light/shaded areas of the aquarium. Can you help me identify so I know how to deal with it?

Thank you !

Why do you think it is algae rather than an animal?

 

[DDenny]

looks like what I had best I could find was some species of Hydrozoan. Is this what they look like.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Hydroids

 

[jcosta98]

Why do you think it is algae rather than an animal?

From what I could see, they are brownish, wave like an algae, and have the same texture as algae when out of the water

 

[jcosta98]

Hydroids

I'm not sure as they don't have something like a "polyp" , and don't react to anything I do to them.. Is there anyway I could confirm?

 

[DDenny]

If you have what I did mine disappeared in a month or so. They spread a little if I messed with them so I just let them be an one day I didn’t see them anymore. Still not sure how I got them hadn’t put anything in the tank for over a month then added CUC and boom they showed up.

 

[jcosta98]

Confirmed it today it is Hydroids indeed... any idea how to get rid of them ? Or just "wait"?

 

[DDenny]

Mine just went away in about a month or so

 

[jcosta98]

These have been growing over sometime ... dont look like stopping , but they seem to prefer shaded areas