Codium

[KUDA]

I've had a fist sized piece of codium that I found at a NJ beach in my low light refugium for two months, and it has stayed alive. Today, I moved it to the higher light main tank and was wondering if it will do better or worse in the higher light. If it declines, I'll move it back to the fuge.

 

[graveyardworm]

There's a Long Island NY member here, Paul B who's collected it locally and keeps it in his reef tank under MH lights.

 

[KUDA]

Thanks

 

[Paul B]

I love the stuff.

 

[graveyardworm]

Thanks for finding this one Paul, Is that a recent photo of your tank? I read of all the things you had going on, sounds like it was a rough time. The codium looks great.

 

[bluenassarius]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10552016#post10552016 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Paul B
I love the stuff.

wow, that almost looks like one of those fw planted tanks

 

[KUDA]

Wow, how did you get it to attach to the rocks? I found mine floating in the ocean already detached.

 

[Paul B]

That is a recent photo of my tank. Most of the corals are gone.
I am on a gobi kick and have a load of them, mostly types that I haven't seen before or only very rarely.
I don't usually have that much codium and a lot of it is gone but I will try to collect more on Saturday when I am going out to the east end of Long Island for a party. I can fill a fifty gallon barrel of it in a few minutes. The problem is I don't have anywhere to store it. It always grows on either a rock or more frequently a limpet shell. When the animal dies it floats to shore.
I only collect it if it has a holdfast. I need to get some for someone on here who I promised it to.
Paul

 

[pupfish]

Wow! I was told the coldwater codiums wouldn't survive in the warmer temps of most reef tanks. Are they wrong about what you're collecting, or is yours a coldwater reef? That stuff is gorgeous!!!

Meredith

 

[Paul B]

Meridith, they were not wrong, it does not survive forever but I can usually get 6 months out of it. It's free and plentiful though so it's no problem.
Paul

 

[cabin]

I picked up codium off a beach in Florida--it was just washed up there. took it home and have had in my tank for 8 months, and have to keep thinning it, it thrives. The angelfishes and tangs pick at it a little, nothing significant.

 

[Paul B]

I picked up a bunch today. It was very windy so the water was very rough. I got very wet, you may as well say I went swimming even though I diden't plan to but I got codium and water.
Paul

 

[pupfish]

Whaah!! Last time I was near the ocean was in Cali. I found a little piece of Ulva on the shoreline and was scared I'd get jumped by beach police if I took it. (Y'know Cali, nothing allowed in - nothing allowed out) :worried:

Meredith

 

[Paul B]

Meredith, we don't have that problem in New York. I think you could take all the Codium you like. No one would even know what it was. I could fill a fifty gallon drum with the stuff in a half hour.
I once had a Sea Urchin collecting business here in NY and I called the Dept of Envirnmental Conservation to see if I needed a permit to dive for urchins like I have for lobsters. No one there even knew what an urchin was. So I never got a permit and never needed one. I am sure no one there knows what Codium, Ulva, hermit crabs, or just about anything else is either unless it is a commercial food item.
I don't think anything here is protected unless it is endangered or used for food.
Paul