help identify

[Chongpark27]

i was moving a rock and notice red spikes growing on the bottom of the rock, can anyone help me identify it.

 

[prattreef]

Forams possibly.

 

[Chongpark27]

are they good or bad

 

[prattreef]

good. Just kind of there really. Search for Foramifera.

 

[Deanos]

Foraminifera

 

[Chongpark27]

Read the links but i think that just confused me more. It really doesnt say if its harmful for a reef. Thanks for the quick response dean and pratt

 

[Deanos]

Previously posted:

good.

 

[Chongpark27]

thanks for the help guys

 

[Awibrandy]

I don't know about you Chong, but what I have in my tank which I would describe as you have {red spikey things on a rock} look nothing like what is pictured in that article. They are actually little spikes, they are not branching nor are they round as in the pic in the article;
The Foraminifera, ("Hole Bearers") or forams for short, are a large group of amoeboid protists with reticulating pseudopods, fine strands of cytoplasm that branch and merge to form a dynamic net


I had a friend over who is pretty good with his knowledge of SW, and he told me it is good. And I have not seen any adverse problems with them. Mine are out in the open.

 

[Deanos]

I believe what is pictured in the article is a microscopic view of an individual foram.

 

[Awibrandy]

I know Deano, my brain is not that Fried. What I am trying to say, describe is that the ones in my tank do not seem to be connected at all. They seem to be free standing. But then again I do not have a microscope..