Algae ID Please

[Devilishturtles]

This stuff started out as just a little bubble or two, and now it's taking over my tank. It's growing everywhere. On my filtration, the rocks, even in between my corals. The pictures below show it growing on my torch coral skeleton. I have googled and can't find anything. Does anyone have any idea?

It's not bubble algae. This stuff is really soft when you touch it and is filled with a gooy substance (spores I imagine). It does look really really awesome under the actinic lighting.

Thanks.

 

[Nikkiheartsfish]

Possibly Botryocladia skottsbergii?

 

[Devilishturtles]

I've never seen red valonia colored like this, or growing much in this shape. The pictures I've always seen of it have been strictly a dark red color and that is it. This stuff is wildly colored with bright oranges and almost purple all over it. Unless you've seen red valonia different colored before? That would be nice if you have. Hehe. I really wish I could find out what this stuff is.

Might try WWM next.

 

[roka64]

Gibsmithia hawaiiensis possibly....?

 

[Devilishturtles]

Hmm, no that's not quite it either.

Thanks though.

 

[kingneptune]

I had this stuff in mine also.. came after my elephant ear died.. and then the water got all bad and now I have algae...have no clue what it is....

 

[usmcmarc]

I'll bet ya it might be cyano. Mine looked like that before spreading...it seems to suck up any microbubbles and ends up looking like that...at least it did in my tank.