Grass on the glass!

[pkremer]

Hi! I have had my tank lit up for about a week now with 192W of light (46 gallons, and am noticing new and interesting things growing. I have posted some pictures to help with ID...at first I thought the first picture was great, little blades of grass growing on my glass, but now it is everywhere...almost like grass! It develops almost a wheat stalk look to it as it gets long.

In the second picture, there are 2 or 3 teardrop shaped cactus-looking things dead in the middle of the picture...I'm curious if you can help me identify these things? They are about 1 mm tall. I am ordering an cleanup-crew from etropicals.com tomorrow, so they may take this stuff down if it's bad, but I'm curious what these things are?

Paul

 

[TheRealFF]

Grass in ur tank lol. U'll need a seahorse to keep those grass nice and even. Horse eats grass, get it? Nvm that was so lame

 

[ddm_aet]

it looks like some sort of green algae. i go to www.saltwater.com to figure out what kind of algae i have. I know from experiance that algae like that can takeover your tank if your not careful. I had a similiar algae on the back of my tank next thing you knew it was all over.

 

[tjara03]

looks to me like the onset of hair algae... what does you cleaner crew consist of?? i had this, but only on one of my rocks a while back and my hermit crabs ate it all up pretty good and never seen it since.. Good luck!!

 

[canyon15]

Hair algea, IMO. I would take care of it sooner than later.