Sooooo I'm completely stumped by what this is

[meir]

So basically i randomly looked around my tank cuz y not (stop laughing, we all do, it's our addiction) and something caught my eye. It was an old frag plug that used to have a bonsai acro, which unfortunately didn't make it, so it obviously was completely dead[emoji849] yet it was glowing with a coral glow under blue lights so I looked at it with my normal lights on and it looks to be like what coralline algae wld normally look like but a red version so basically I need an ID before I go crazy trying to figure out what's causing it

it's an iPhone camera so it sux but u can just make out a bit of glowing red

 

[Reefrookie220]

Coralline algae, you can get red, deep purple, lavender and pink. Never seen it in the tank, but in there ocean it can be orange as well.

 

[Maritimer]

As Reefrookie pointed out, coralline comes in a _ton_ of different colors. I've also noticed that freshly killed coralline takes on a hot orange fluorescence - I ran my powerheads in hot water and vinegar last week, and the tank fairly glowed when I put them back in!

~Bruce

 

[meir]

Aha thx