Please help me ID this algea
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Is it beneficial? it's start to spread quite rapid in my 30 gallon tank and I'm tempted to frag it for trade.
It is blocking some water flow and lights to my SPS, so they need to be pruned sooner or later.
please let me knwo if they should go into the bin or be traded. Thanks!
It is blocking some water flow and lights to my SPS, so they need to be pruned sooner or later.
please let me knwo if they should go into the bin or be traded. Thanks!
Alex Kwong
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The green one for sure is Halimeda ~ good algae
The purple one look like Laurencia ~ good algae too, but your is grown very nice. They must under very good lighting...
What others in your tank?
http://users.adelphia.net/~bcpatterson/Macro_Algaes.htm
The purple one look like Laurencia ~ good algae too, but your is grown very nice. They must under very good lighting...
What others in your tank?
http://users.adelphia.net/~bcpatterson/Macro_Algaes.htm
Hi Alex, thanks for the pictures, Laurencia look somewhat different to my purple ones, are there different shape morph?
P.S. I am trying to ID the purple one heh, The Halimeda is completing for space with this species but is slowly loosing their ground.
The structure of the purple algea is very delicate and fragile, doesn't seem to have high calcium contents like Halimeda, the broken frags are easily attached to any live rock and will start regrow fromt eh new spot, a quite prolific speices, but not quite malicious like caulerpa. The branches are of a very deep purple colour, the branches are thin and have many sub branches, they end up in sharp tips, differnt from Laurencia's rounded tips.
it's currently under 150W 10K MH lighting with Actinic Blue secondary.
Any other sugestions?
Thanks
P.S. I am trying to ID the purple one heh, The Halimeda is completing for space with this species but is slowly loosing their ground.
The structure of the purple algea is very delicate and fragile, doesn't seem to have high calcium contents like Halimeda, the broken frags are easily attached to any live rock and will start regrow fromt eh new spot, a quite prolific speices, but not quite malicious like caulerpa. The branches are of a very deep purple colour, the branches are thin and have many sub branches, they end up in sharp tips, differnt from Laurencia's rounded tips.
it's currently under 150W 10K MH lighting with Actinic Blue secondary.
Any other sugestions?
Thanks
Katsura,
Could the red be the same I have.
Here's how it looks out of water. I guess it may be some sort of Hypnea, possibly Hypnea valentiae
Could the red be the same I have.
Here's how it looks out of water. I guess it may be some sort of Hypnea, possibly Hypnea valentiae
It should be Hypnea pannosa J. Agardh.
http://www.algaebase.org/imagedetail.lasso?img_id=34566&sk=0
http://www.algaebase.org/imagedetail.lasso?img_id=34566&sk=0
Thank you very much everyone! You've nailed it!
Hypnea pannosa is the closest match. But I can be certain it is in the family Hypnea.
Henn, thanks for the great pics, they look exact like the ones I have structually but with a different colour.
I wish I have some like that florocent(?) green one like yours, If I pull a strand out from deep in the layer, it's colour is a more delicate green and somes times red.
Could you tell me a little more about this species? Is it malicious or harmless? I've heard they are great Tang food? I've no Tang in my tank tho.
Cheers.
Hypnea pannosa is the closest match. But I can be certain it is in the family Hypnea.
Henn, thanks for the great pics, they look exact like the ones I have structually but with a different colour.
I wish I have some like that florocent(?) green one like yours, If I pull a strand out from deep in the layer, it's colour is a more delicate green and somes times red.
Could you tell me a little more about this species? Is it malicious or harmless? I've heard they are great Tang food?
I've no Tang in my tank tho.Cheers.
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