Please Help with purple fungi!

[Fishy Account]

Hello
I have a 29g with live plants and a large piece of driftwood. I was sitting in my bed doing homework when I noticed this large purple fuzz on the log which I hadn't seen before. At first I though it was just because I had starred right into the light so I was seeing things but I got closer and it was real. I got my tweezers and peeled at it. Underneath was a giant gash in the wood which was never there before. I'm freaking out please tell me what this is and how to fully rid of it!!!
Thanks

 

[TMaier]

Like this?
Purple what?

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348678

 

[Fishy Account]

Like this?
Purple what?

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348678

Yes that's it. I read that it is black beard algae which I have heard of before. Do you think it's what I've got.

 

[amydaveg]

That doesn't look like black beard algea to me.

That being said, when I spray black beard algea with hydrogen peroxide, it turns purple when it dies.

I would take the wood out, spray with hydrogen peroxide (get a clean spray bottle and use regular over the counter peroxide), and see if it goes away over a week or so..

 

[TMaier]

I had Cyanobacteria.

 

[Fishy Account]

That doesn't look like black beard algea to me.

That being said, when I spray black beard algea with hydrogen peroxide, it turns purple when it dies.

I would take the wood out, spray with hydrogen peroxide (get a clean spray bottle and use regular over the counter peroxide), and see if it goes away over a week or so..

Actually now that I look again it doesn't fit the description of black beard algae. It is on a few other fish forums but nobody seems to know what it is exactly. Just for the record the black beard algae is technically red algae so maybe that's why it turns purple when it dies