Non-curly cheato

[cmsargent]

I was in my LFS today and they had an interesting macro. It was a morph of cheato the was compleatly straight. They had a nice sized rock that was encrusted with this stuff. I seemed to be growing in clumps somewhat and straight up from the rock, maybe 6-8" long. It looked like a very, very thin seagrass.

I didn't get it (it was a bit expensive for a macro) but I'm thinking about going back for it.

Has anyone seen this before? Is it as easy to care for as regular cheato?

 

[Samala]

If its slimy and limp out of water it is likely to be Enteromorpha, there is another candidate that escapes my mind at the moment. If its got the characteristic obvious cells (striping on the tubes) and is semi stiff out of water it is more likely to be Chaetomorpha aerea or antennina. Actually many in the genus Chaetomorpha are not curlie-cued. Definitely worth looking at AlgaeBase's image search for photos.

>Sarah