what kind of macro is this ?????

[greenman]

Just wonderinf if anyone knows the name of this stuff ???
It is the brown algea ....

http://reefls.dyndns.org/stand/DSC00738.JPG
http://reefls.dyndns.org/stand/DSC00740.JPG

This stuff grows like wild fire.....

[scubadude]

Hey GM
its very hard to tell from those pictures, can you get a macro shot of the algae?

[Elmo18]

I also can't make it out without a better macro picture or closer shot.

- Elmo

[greenman]

I took some out and took a few close ups ....

http://reefls.dyndns.org/stand/DSC00742.JPG
http://reefls.dyndns.org/stand/DSC00743.JPG

[sspargur]

Is that a Macroalgae at all? I've never seen an algae like that ever. It's a new one to me.

[greenman]

yellow tangs eat it

[Elmo18]

Yeah the closest thing I can think of are gorgonians looking kinda like that, BUT that is not a gorgonian. I'm also interested in this type of macroalgae.

Can you let us know where you think it came from?? Maybe a Fiji rock? Tonga? MarshalL? Maybe that will point a specific direction to look.

Free food for tangs are good, though

- Elmo

[scubadude]

I believe it may be Acanthophora Spicifera. Hey Greenman any chance I could get some from you? I would be willing to give you some $$ for it and naturally pay for shipping.

Rocky

[Elmo18]

I'm agreeing with Rocky in this one. They are a type of red algae, usually light brown/green in coloration which resemble the ones you have in your pics. And in fact yellow tangs do eat it, and in Hawaii this species is an invasive species, overcrowding the native algae species of Laurencia.

I went to some websites to confirm this and I will get the links up shortly. Right now though I have to go to the university and school...

- Elmo

[greenman]

Scubadude I could send u some pm me about it ....
Well so far this is the most info i have gotten but please post
that link i would like to read up it....


Thanks

[greenman]

I think it came on fiji live rock .....
I didnt get it untill i set up a 10g ref with High water flow...
thats when this stuff took off...

[scubadude]

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/GradStu...canth-home.htm

[greenman]

Must have come with some of the other macros i got....


Thanks a million.

[Elmo18]

Thanks scuba, I saw that site, too! Maybe Hawaii needs more yellow tangs?!?!?!

j/k

- Elmo

[greenman]

http://reefls.dyndns.org/ref/


Thats ten days worth of growth ..........

bottom pic is ten days ago, top pic is today and middle pick is the bucket i put it in ......

[Elmo18]

geezus!! wow! it'd be scary to put that in the main tank, but it works nice for a refuge. However, i like to have the greener types of macroalgae like Caulerpa.

- Elmo ;)

[greenman]

I dont have any problems with it in the main tank.... i have the green macros also a few of them but they dont keep up with this stuff ....