Brillo algae ?

[FISHme]

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.

[MEC]

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

[cod]

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 ;;

[DukeDog]

I think its green monofilament fishing line
Jeff

[LiquidShaneo]

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

[FISHme]

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 !!!!