Reddish algae growing in refug

[andyh10051987]

Hi all,

I have a 10 gal refugium for my 55 gal main display tank. I bought a good batch of chaetomorpha and it's been a little more then 2 weeks. I recently notice that more and more of this reddish algae growing on my chaetomorpha, and i was just wondering if this is natural? I was afraid that if this red algae keeps growing it will smother my chaeto from getting the lighting it requires or if this is normal. Thanks for your help and have a good one everyone!

[rothany206]

Its just cycling the fuge it will go away in time. In mine it was full of that stuff every where in my fuge as soon as it cycled it was gone then the pods appeared woopie

[lunatik_69]

Thats normal, its called Red Slime Algae or Cyano. It will go away in about 2-3 weeks. My refug. did the same thing. Luna

[andyh10051987]

it's not stringy like cyanobacteria, its looks like normal algae but red.