I have a green hair-like algae starting to cover my rocks. It's nothing like regular GHA, it grows in single isolated strands and is about the width of a human hair and grows very long. If you watch the video below, at the beginning of the video I pan and show a piece that is over 12 inches long. It looks just like very very fine Chaetomorpha. I tried searching and only found one other thread with something similar but there wasn't an ID.
I first noticed it on the shells of some dwarf ceriths I got from an online vendor out of Florida. It started to spread so I did a round of Flux Rx to try to get rid of it and a GHA problem I had. The Flux Rx worked great and got rid of all of it and the GHA but I also let my PO4 bottom out and dinos took its place. I beat the dinos and now that the tank is flourishing again it came back worse. Regular GHA is totally gone though.
Really curious if anyone can give an ID of this stuff so I can learn more about it. Also, any ideas of something that will eat it. I have an emerald crab and Mexican Turbo in QT now(learned my lesson after the ceriths). I'd rather not put in hermits but will if I have to. I'm also very hesitant to use Flux Rx again after beating dinos but may have to if I have no other options because I know it works.
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I first noticed it on the shells of some dwarf ceriths I got from an online vendor out of Florida. It started to spread so I did a round of Flux Rx to try to get rid of it and a GHA problem I had. The Flux Rx worked great and got rid of all of it and the GHA but I also let my PO4 bottom out and dinos took its place. I beat the dinos and now that the tank is flourishing again it came back worse. Regular GHA is totally gone though.
Really curious if anyone can give an ID of this stuff so I can learn more about it. Also, any ideas of something that will eat it. I have an emerald crab and Mexican Turbo in QT now(learned my lesson after the ceriths). I'd rather not put in hermits but will if I have to. I'm also very hesitant to use Flux Rx again after beating dinos but may have to if I have no other options because I know it works.
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