View Full Version : What kind of algae is this? (pics)
I recently developed some new growths on a few of my plants..Can anyone indentify them?
http://members.aol.com/holmes5518/leaf1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/holmes5518/leaf2.jpg
http://members.aol.com/holmes5518/leaf3.jpg
Tempest
03-02-2004, 8:57 PM
The first one looks like staghorn and the other two look like plantlets on a java fern leaf. :)
critrcrazy
03-03-2004, 2:11 PM
Not sure about the first one. But the second pic (and 3rd?), you definitely have some baby java's growing there! First time I saw them in my tank, I just about had a heart attack :rolleyes: figuring it was some sort of killer algae that I was never goiing to be able to get rid of, ROFL!!!
NJ Devils Fan
03-03-2004, 5:07 PM
The first one looks like hair algae.
tawnylane
03-03-2004, 11:52 PM
And just what does one do for the baby java ferns? I have some too.:D
Mark_b
03-04-2004, 7:18 AM
I like to just leave the young java ferns. Eventually they will float away from the parent plant to settle somewhere else. Either leave them to settle somewhere naturally or move them to wherever you want.
tawnylane
03-04-2004, 1:34 PM
Ah ha! Will do...Thanks!