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10/11/2007, 09:09 AM
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coraline algae with odd shapes
some of my coraline algae is taking odd shapes. Being optimistic, it is taking the form of a montipora. Is this normal?
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10/11/2007, 09:48 AM
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Don't know if you care about what a noob like me has to say but none of mine has done that and I have quite a bit of it in the purple color. Most of it looks like either a smooth sheet over the rock or makes little ball-like formations that end up looking like a stack of tiny marbles. Nothing that extends out over the edges in a sheet.
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10/11/2007, 11:32 AM
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Most of mine looks like the one you described (I also have some of it bunching up as mtiny marbles), however there's a chunk that sticks out as if it was a piece of mantipora. If it grows any larger I'll take pictures to show.
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10/11/2007, 12:54 PM
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Coralline grows in many ways. It can encrust, branch, plate, and bubble out.
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10/11/2007, 01:09 PM
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I was wishing it was an actual mantipora growing out of my live rock, but thanks for clarifying!!!!
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10/11/2007, 05:57 PM
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If you can find a copy, Marine Plants of the Caribbean (A field guide from Florida to Brazil) by Littler, Littler, Bucher, and Norris, 1989, ISBN 0-87474-607-8 is an excellent guide to algae, with many pictures and descriptions covering a wide array calcareous and non-calcareous types. They classify them by color and then type. Might even be a new edition out now.
Cheers, Ray
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10/11/2007, 07:09 PM
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10/11/2007, 07:30 PM
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Well, I looked it up and it's $43.99 used on Amazon.com and my library doesn't have it.
I recognize the plant on the front cover as the same thing that is covering the shell of my astrea snail. He's a beautiful walking garden. Would be interesting to know what it is called but I don't think I'll spend that much. |
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10/11/2007, 08:37 PM
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yeah its plating some times it can look really cool almost like a coral
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10/11/2007, 09:15 PM
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I have coraline algae that looks like the virgin mary!
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10/13/2007, 12:42 PM
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10/13/2007, 02:18 PM
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