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Purple dots/bumps ID. Currently cycling my tank.
Hi. I am noticing these little bumps around the tank. My tank has been cycling for about 2 weeks now. I got live rock from another hobbyist locally, no idea what they had in the tank previously. The live rock was in a couple of buckets exposed to air for a while.
Anyhow, I am trying to ID what these little bumps are. Hopefully they are good algae. Sorry for awful camera phone pics. I have not edited the colors at all. Bumbs scattered on a rock ![]() Larger bump with tall purple one in the back. ![]() |
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are they hard?
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IMO it looks a bit like coralline aglae (good stuff)
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Hard to tell from the pictures, but could they possible be vermetid snails? The description of one of the bumps being tall is what makes me think that. I have what I believe are vermetids in my tank and they are generally small purple/pink spirals with smokestacks (for lack of a better word) that have thin strands like spiderwebs coming from them.
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Yes, I know they don't move. Forams come in all shapes and sizes. Yours may never grow much larger than they are, or, they may grow into small branching forams.
![]() Edit - here's an example of some branching foraminiferans: ![]()
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Very cool, I've never had those before
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