Is this algae good to have?

[joeyfromlawrenceville]

Hi gang,
This is a pic from my wife's aquapod, recently set up w/ no inhabitants.
We have lots of green growing, some is leafey and some is fine and feathery. the pic shows both. I am running lights ( PC 64watt) 9 hours a day. PO4 got kinda high during the dead shrimp cycle, used PO4 remover pad to lower, no other water parameters out of check.

Is this a kind of nuisance algae or just the normal stuff, I have not had this lush green algae grow in any other tank.
thanks,

 

[tuesday]

Your picture is a little blurry but it looks like hair algae. Not good.

 

[Fluff]

I agree it looks like hair algae and you'll need to get your excess nutrients in check to get rid of it. Pretty typical of a newly cycled tank. The bottom circle in your first pic, if I'm seeing it correctly, it looks like it may be caulerpa. This is bad only if you let it get a sure foot hold in the rock. Keep it trimmed and it's a great nutrient export.

 

[Fluff]

moved to sw ID area.

 

[joeyfromlawrenceville]

Ok Thanks,
Today I am going to do the first PWC ever ( 30%), I will try to brush / remove it while siphoning. Plan on putting CUC in this evening or tomorrow, hopefully they will help. Shortening the light cycle some, by a couple hours. The excess nutrients would have to be from the dead shrimp I cycled with last week, hopefully with having only one very small fish planned for this tank this won't be a problem or last long.
Thanks again.