Hair algae??

[Mafia00]

hi all

pluck this out from my USF and i cant be sure is it hair algae.

anyone can help me ID?

If is hair algae, anyway i can remove it then plucking one by one?

My tank set up is for CRS.




ps for the poor pics.

[barmby]

I cannot see any thing wrong , ?

[Wahlin]

Moss sprout maybe ...

[Shadow]

hair algae normally very long (5cm or more). The one in your photo is a short piece, not sure whether it is an algae or just a debris

[Mafia00]

okay, so I guess the things I pluck I can just leave it there?

[Navanod]

Looks like hairgrass or bits of moss stripped of leaves...any SAE in your tank by the way?

[Mafia00]

whats sae???

[barmby]

Siamese Algae Eater

[Mafia00]

I do not have a SAE in my CRS tank. i'm keep an OTTO inside but it keep dieing. do not know what is wrong.

[KWL]

CRS survive but not Ottos, That is weird, CRS normally more sensitive thatn ottos. Maybe they los when fighting for food

[StanChung]

Looks like a form of algae- something like Clado.

[reagan022]

Hmm had this once in my tank...found this pic from this website. maybe its Staghorn Algae

http://www.aquariumalgae.blogspot.com/

[Navanod]

I also find a fair amount of this in my US Fissiden last time...
just got some new ones from a bro and also had this growing amongst the fissiden...

Its not staghorn...looks like moss without the leaves...

[Navanod]

Looks like a form of algae- something like Clado.

I've collected some of these things and looked closely at it...possibly cladophora.
I'll try to get them under s microscope and take a pic

[Navanod]

Just back from peeping at the samples...looks very similar to the cladophora glomerata depicted here:

Sadly, I'm not able to take any decent pictures of what I saw. Anyone have a good remedy for clado? The plants are still under quarantine so I can probably treat them to remove the algae before they go into the tank

[Navanod]

Some updates from my end. I got 4 meshes of infested fissidens to clean out and I suspect there's another form of algae mixed in with the Clado as well as some of the strands looked different under the microscope (damn, I must borrow one that can take photos!)

1 mesh got the 15mins potassium permanganate treatment at "dark pink" concentrations. Things looked abit browner from the staining

Another mesh got the 2mins chlorox treatment at 5% dilution (1 part in 19 parts water). Clado turned visibly white/transparent while the tips of the fissidens fronds also turned pale.

Left both meshed in a window tank that gets morning sun and aircon that keeps them at about 26 degrees C. Will look at them 2 days later and see if the clado are still growing. Will take some proper pics too