Hi,
I'm brand new to this forum and very glad it's here. A little history... I used to have a fish-only 55 gallon saltwater tank with great success. That was 15 years ago. Now I have a 10 gallon fish-reef, going on almost a year now.
Reef tanks are really new to me and was hoping for some advice...
A few months ago I purchased a very interesting piece of liverock. At the time it only had two types of green algae/'seaweed' (grape caulerpa & some grassy type) among some tiny anemones, green pollops & 2 very tiny brittle stars.
In the past few weeks, however, I noticed underneath the suspended rock was some growth that looks a lot like roots of a plant (only this is very white in color) sticking thru the holes of a pot, however, it is accompanied by many hollow transluscent tube-like structures (also white) with open ends sticking straight out (about 1/4" long).
I have not been able to identify this. The growth seems to be picking up, especially since I introduced weekly vitamin supplements (Coral-Vite). This stuff has started to spread to the top of the liverock and has even started sprouting on my fake coral pieces; now and I am concerned that it may become intrusive and choke out the valued life in the tank. But if this is something interesting, unique or desirable, I would like to know.
Do you think you could ID this?
Thank you so much in advance!
GinaD
I'm brand new to this forum and very glad it's here. A little history... I used to have a fish-only 55 gallon saltwater tank with great success. That was 15 years ago. Now I have a 10 gallon fish-reef, going on almost a year now.
Reef tanks are really new to me and was hoping for some advice...
A few months ago I purchased a very interesting piece of liverock. At the time it only had two types of green algae/'seaweed' (grape caulerpa & some grassy type) among some tiny anemones, green pollops & 2 very tiny brittle stars.
In the past few weeks, however, I noticed underneath the suspended rock was some growth that looks a lot like roots of a plant (only this is very white in color) sticking thru the holes of a pot, however, it is accompanied by many hollow transluscent tube-like structures (also white) with open ends sticking straight out (about 1/4" long).
I have not been able to identify this. The growth seems to be picking up, especially since I introduced weekly vitamin supplements (Coral-Vite). This stuff has started to spread to the top of the liverock and has even started sprouting on my fake coral pieces; now and I am concerned that it may become intrusive and choke out the valued life in the tank. But if this is something interesting, unique or desirable, I would like to know.
Do you think you could ID this?
Thank you so much in advance!
GinaD
