Chaeto algae?????

[bchill777]

Starting a refugium and noticed this algae growing in the tank...I'm suspecting its chaeto?
Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Lab_Adam]

Cant really tell from this picture but I am leaning towards not chaeto.

 

[RJinPV]

It doesn't look like the chaeto I have my sump. Chaeto looks like strands of curly green spaghetti with little branching. Is your algae attached to the gravel? If so, not chaeto because I don't think chaeto attaches to structures

 

[bchill777]

It doesn't look like the chaeto I have my sump. Chaeto looks like strands of curly green spaghetti with little branching. Is your algae attached to the gravel? If so, not chaeto because I don't think chaeto attaches to structures

It started growing on a live rock structure. Was very easily removed in a ball

 

[recess62]

Bryopsis???

 

[Lonny]

It's not chaeto for sure. But I Couldn't tell you what kind it is. I would yank it out.

 

[domination2580]

Yeah i dont think its chaeto. Id go with the bryopsis. [HASHTAG]#reefsquad[/HASHTAG]

 

[kschweer]

Don't think it's cheato either. My first guess is bryopsis.

 

[cameronh]

Definitely not chaeto

 

[Sabellafella]

Have this same algae it split my mind what its called but by looking a your photo its not bryopsis. Take your cellphone light and shine around it at nighttime. If it glows a irredecent green blue color it indeed is bryopsis. But looks like its the same algae i have. My margarita snails are eating it

 

[kireek]

Looks like good old green hair algae to me.Various herbivores should eat it.

 

[RJinPV]

I would just remove it. Period. I've been battling a green hair algae out break for a year. Nothing really eats it except for sea hares. Turbos, Astreas, Trochus, hermits, emerald crabs; none of them touched it. The only good algae (besides chaeto) is a removed algae