What's causing this..?

[tgreene]

I don't know if this is how this particular species of macro goes sexual or not, but it's been happening a lot lately. What you're seeing, is globs of goo that very closely resemble egg yolks. This only happens with this macro.

The only fuge inhabitants are a ton of various pods & worms, and 1 giant turbo snail.

I will say, that this macro has pretty much taken over the fuge, and grows at an insane rate. I thinned out about 2/3 of it last night, paying close attention to get rid of all of these yellowish globs of goo, but this morning , there were 2 more...

The fuge is low-flow, and has 65w 50/50 PC's running 24/7, and the lights are roughly 12" above the water.

Is this good, bad, or what..? Also, could someone please ID this macro for me..? :)

http://www.great-river.com/sw-tank/macro-1.jpg http://www.great-river.com/sw-tank/macro-2.jpg

http://www.great-river.com/sw-tank/macro-3.jpg http://www.great-river.com/sw-tank/macro-4.jpg

[tgreene]

Anyone..?

[quack]

taggin along with u dude!!

[tgreene]

Has nobody ever experienced this..?

I went ahead and dropped the lights to roughly 3" above the waterline, to see if that changes anything...

[kmk2307]

Hi tgreene,

That looks like Caulerpa serrulata... maybe. the C. serrulata I have is much more "sawblade" looking. I am pretty positive on the Caulerpa part, though. If you rinse that stuff off does the algae look damaged where it is comming from? I have seen a whiter version of this on C. prolifera before that I assumed was just it's internal "stuff" leaking out of an injury.

Kevin