Orange 'fluorescing' awesome macro..

[Samala]

Look what I found and sweet talked some LFS guys out of earlier today? I am pretty sure this is Halymenia floresii, I think its gorgeous. Thirty seconds under my light and it starting coloring up into orange spots at the ends of the fronds.. oooooh. Stuck it into one of the prop tanks that has 11 wpg of daylight flavor and the whole section I put in there had gone completely bright neon orange inside of a few minutes. Giddy with delight. I know, I know.. its just algae, lets not loose our heads.

Lets hope I can convince it to grow. I wonder if this is the stuff sometimes ref'd as dragons tongue macro (?).

<img border=1 height=312 width=400 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/slardizabal/orange.jpg">

>Sarah

 

[Mark]

Pretty cool, Sarah. I hope it does well for you!

 

[Shoestring Reefer]

Cool find.

 

[Seahorsewisprer]

Oh La La! Keep us posted on it's condition!

 

[biomekanic]

Nice! I haven't been able to talk one of my LFSs into letting me "take the colony off his hands".

I still keep trying though... for a shop of almost all corals, he gets some nice macro's as hitch hikers.

 

[Samala]

The spots of the red that had done a cool neon orange trick yesterday are now back to the normal red color.. and actually a few spots went clear. Sad.

>Sarah

 

[Triterium]

:O what happened to santa manatee?

 

[Triterium]

oh very nice macro!

hmmmm.....
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/294/5547/1655.pdf

 

[Samala]

Now, Triterium, I know you're not complaining about my avatar after you got rid of my favorite one of yours! That was a very nice little article.. I gotta say when I first saw the color on the macro I was thinking.. "ooooh a GFP reporter alternative!" I need to get out of the lab.

PS: Are you going to post any updates of your monster 180 soon? I'd love to see how its coming along (or the smaller grass tank if thats still around too).

>Sarah

 

[Triterium]

Dang, i posted the wrong link!! And now i cant find the one i wanted to post.

Hey, you took MY fovorite picture off your website

My planted tank is quickly turning into a FOWLR tank. I still have seagrasses which are growing but not as well as id like. My mangroves are growing very well though

I wish i had a tank able to support cool macros like your red one

P.S. I like RNA too

 

[Seahorsewisprer]

You two really need to get together!

 

[Samala]

I dunno Suzy.. I think the FBI will be after Triterium soon.. with his interests in H5N1... mmhmm! I dont wanna get arrested too. Looks like he's dabbling in membrane protein translocators to me. Honestly the genes I like to play with have better names (and are therefore superior.. ) Dicer, Argonaute, Superman.. yeah!

This, uh, correlates to macroalgae because..

>Sarah

 

[mogurnda]

/hijack/

Honestly the genes I like to play with have better names (and are therefore superior.. ) Dicer, Argonaute, Superman.. yeah!

You really work on gene silencing? Whether I like it or not, RNAi will be the centerpiece of one of my next projects. You may get peppered with naive questions soon.

/hijack off/

 

[Samala]

Dave.. yep.. RNAi, smallRNA, etc. Seem to be a lot of people falling into this the last few months.. sorta resigning themselves to using the prep. Its not so bad. If I can help I'd be happy to, and if I cant help I'll just forward q's on to the postdocs - who will do whatever I say.. because I make the coffee around here.

>Sarah

 

[Mike4284m]

And to think I came here to take a break from studying biochem.

P.S. I do undergrad. work on cilia and flagella . . .

 

[bluenassarius]

hey sarah, i got the same thing. the orange spots are usually the areas that are on the decline. nice find took me more than half a year to get some of that hehe

 

[sculpin]

If we're revealing our hidden nerdy underbellies, I'll fess up too: I was once an X-ray crystallographer before selling out to become the man. Ah, the shame...

 

[Samala]

Oooh crystallography is soo cool, we just sent out some samples for that.

Blue.. I think its weird that it did it in response to the relatively high light levels. That'll teach me to not light-adapt a macro from low light LFS tanks to my display. All the spots that were orange are now clear, though the rest of the thallus looks good. Have you had yours attach yet? Two weeks now nearly and mine hasnt grown or attached much. Hmmmm.

>Sarah

 

[00nothing]

hey sarah that is the stuff that i have in my seahorse tank it seems it doestt actually attach but will grow a hard base

a friend of mine has hers under vhos and it grows likea r eally bad weed i ahve not had the same luck with mine under low light pc's good luck with it though and oh yeah seems its a calcium based macro and tangs wont touch it

 

[Samala]

This species tends to be really slimey out of the water.. like gelatinous goo. I think, if you have one that is stiff, or calcerous, then its likely to be another species. Calcerous reds.. hard to think of many examples. I think the Laurencia genus fits that, but not something easily confused with Halymenia.

Got a pic of your red?

The Halymenia, as a quick update, is doing alright.. no real growth of it and the clear areas on the edges of the fronds (that flouresced) are all gone now. But there are small indentations and burrs forming on the thallus now, they look like they might be the beginnings of the development of new fronds. Fun fun!

>Sarah