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Thanks for the terms.
my clumps look just like that picture. The two kinds of algea seem to love to live together. I am extreemly woried about my tanks. I took a nail file to one of the rocks this stuff was on. Its all back. The spongy red stuff is very evil to my zoa.
I am going to cross my fingers and try to get an urchin on them next.
my clumps look just like that picture. The two kinds of algea seem to love to live together. I am extreemly woried about my tanks. I took a nail file to one of the rocks this stuff was on. Its all back. The spongy red stuff is very evil to my zoa.
I am going to cross my fingers and try to get an urchin on them next.
I was just trying to get a clump of the Gracilaria off some rock. Its simply impossilbe without getting pieces all over. I'm afraid I will need to take out and bake all the rock... Probably loose quite a few zoa in the proccess.
I guess I am going to try an urchin and perhaps emeralds first. But from the searches, it looks pretty dismal on controling this stuff.
I guess I am going to try an urchin and perhaps emeralds first. But from the searches, it looks pretty dismal on controling this stuff.
armygreen11
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A healthy Naso tang may eat up the Dictyota. Emerald crabs can sometimes eat it too. In my opinion, I'd save the diadema aka long-spined urchin (that's the only one that eats Dictyota) for a last resort as it also eats corraline algae, and eventually it will clean off the live rock until it's white. IMO, white live rock isn't very natural looking or even appealing.
armygreen11
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I have a 75, and I have four emeralds in it. Two of them are huge now, and yeah, they can move some things around, but they don't directly bother anything. They can fight amongst themselves sometimes, but normally the smaller of the two just runs away, and the bigger one goes back to what it was doing. As for the Naso, you could get a juv and it should be fine. It'll take years for it to outgrow the tank I would think. Just think, then you'd have a reason to get a bigger tank. 
Lot of pictures
Lot of pictures
I would like to show some algae from my refugium. They all are grown out from a single Bali rock. I'm still in trouble with their ID
#1 Calcified red algae, very firmly attached to rock. Galaxaura acuminata or G. marginata ?
#2 Hypnea pannosa või Gracilaria arcuata ?
#3 Free floating green algae, looks like a kind of tiny Chaetomorpha. There is also some "real" Chaetomorphat at bottom part of picture.
#4 ?
#5 ?
The same three weeks later.
Lot of pictures
I would like to show some algae from my refugium. They all are grown out from a single Bali rock. I'm still in trouble with their ID
#1 Calcified red algae, very firmly attached to rock. Galaxaura acuminata or G. marginata ?
#2 Hypnea pannosa või Gracilaria arcuata ?
#3 Free floating green algae, looks like a kind of tiny Chaetomorpha. There is also some "real" Chaetomorphat at bottom part of picture.
#4 ?
#5 ?
The same three weeks later.
Lot of pictures II
Lot of pictures II
Part II
#6 Thick olive green bush.
#7 Pale pink
#8 Reddish brown mixed with #7
The same two weeks later. Now it looks like #4.
#9 ?
The same two weeks later
#10 Red ball, probably Asparagopsis armata tetrasporophyte.
The same three weeks later. The green alga would be probably Bryopsis
Lot of pictures II
Part II
#6 Thick olive green bush.
#7 Pale pink
#8 Reddish brown mixed with #7
The same two weeks later. Now it looks like #4.
#9 ?
The same two weeks later
#10 Red ball, probably Asparagopsis armata tetrasporophyte.
The same three weeks later. The green alga would be probably Bryopsis
adamsreeftank
New member
Henn,
Great pictures of some really interesting algaes.
Do you have a "full fuge" shot.
Thanks.
Great pictures of some really interesting algaes.
Do you have a "full fuge" shot.
Thanks.
ScottS
New member
Greg I too Have this stuff in your pic and My Foxface loves It. Not sure exactly what kind of foxface he is But hes Whit and black till just after his eyes Then Yellow With A black dot on his back.
Anyways He Keeps this stuff trimmed back to just a small stalk on the rock it grows on.
ScottS
Anyways He Keeps this stuff trimmed back to just a small stalk on the rock it grows on.
ScottS
wayne_sreef
New member
Red Algae
Red Algae
I have two kinds red.
Fauchea SP.
ID?
Red Algae
I have two kinds red.
Fauchea SP.
ID?
wayne_sreef
New member
I think I got the ID for the second red algae. It called Phyllophora crispa.
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