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    Brillo algae ?

    Anyone know what the name of this stuff is ?
    Anyone else have it and if so do you feed ito your fish ?
    I got a little peice of this stuff hitch hike with some caulerpa. I put it into a 15 gal tank and fed some Iron and it grew like gang busters.
    I just placed the whole clump into my mangrove sump and suppose it could be fed to the livestock in the main tank and also be used as nutrient export ehh ?
    Looks almost like tang heaven but is not because I have some of that growing and it is different.
    FISH, FISHme or [\[\ark

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    Theres a type I believe is called barbers brush, But this looks a bit different. They are both composed of long thin fillimants. HTH .Mike

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    I have some "Brillo" alga in my refugium. The individual strands on mine are much curlier(more brillo pad like). I don't know about feeding it to fish, because I don't have any fish, but it is a great place for pods to live and breed.

    If anyone knows the latin name for this stuff please pass it along. I feel kind of silly calling it Brillo Pad ;;

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    I think its green monofilament fishing line
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    Looks like Chaetomorpha linum to me or some other Chaetomorpha sp macroalgae. Midland Marine and Inland Aquatics both sell the product. Here's Midland's website on the stuff:

    Midland Chaetomorpha sp Page 1

    Midland Chaetomorpha sp Page 2

    Good stuff for refugiums. Grows fast. Doesn't attach to anything. Doesn't "go sexual" like caulerpa. Easy to harvest. Sucks up nutrients like a sponge.

    When I get my refugium up and running I'm getting a handful of this stuff...

    liquid

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    Liquid,
    Thanks for that info. That seems to describe it to a tee.
    It really grew fast and is long and stringy like GREEN mono.
    Coolness !!!!


 

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