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Hey all!

Our tank is flourishing and we love it however we have noticed over the last few weeks there’s this growing, does look like stasis and it’s not green it’s translucent.

The only thing that’s happened is we have added a ai blade glow so more blue light being added
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I think it's either some bleached algae (possibly too much light in those spots or other environmental factors) or chrysophytes. Sometimes they create pale filaments instead of golden slime. A cheap microscope would suffice to identify it properly.

Does it come apart when you grab it with tweezers or does the filament stay intact like macro algae would?
 

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