"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ...

No problem, but what I saw on that page looked more like hair algae, BBA in
my tank looked like tufts versus hair.... meaning it branched out from one
spot, as in a sword plant kinda way... not like a ball of thread...

His algae would be called Staghorn algae, but it appears it's the same
alga as BBA.
I don't know the exact life cycle of these algae, but if you have BBA
and your tank gets an ammonium spike, they become Staghorn. These
beauties started as a thin black line of tufts along the edges of my
Vallisnerias, and stayed that way for a year - then I added
house-plant fertilizer:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/algae_g...#Staghorn_Alga

This isn't as strange as it may sound - red algae typically alternate
between a haploid vegetatively reproducing generation and a diploid
sexually reproducing generation, which often look completely
different. Presumably the Staghorn stage and the BBA stage are the
different generations of Compsopogon.

Well, that's my interpretation of what happened, anyway.

Hmmm... Should probably as about this on the algae-l list.

IMO, I can't decipher between one algae and another, but following that BBA
thread before,I searched and found a different algae than the page you
supplied, and I can't find a single link with a picture today... I'll search
more on Monday.... Happy Easter...

You can have a look at the pictures on my site too:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/algae_gallery.htm . There's mainly
Cladophora there, though.