Plant/Maco/Seaweed ? ID

Cutiewitbooty · 02/20/2006, 08:51 PM

Anyone know what type of plant this is? It looks almost like some type of macro or something. Any ideas? I know it native to south florida lol

hawkfish21 · 02/20/2006, 09:07 PM

It looks like Graciliaria. Tangs love it.

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 07:48 AM

bump for the moring people, anyone else know?

dhoch · 02/21/2006, 07:52 AM

Looks like "red Gracillaria"... a little color loss in it thought (has it been out of water or through some shipping or temp changes?

Dave

dhoch · 02/21/2006, 07:53 AM

I've alos seen Gracillaria in a "yellow" form that is what that might be.

Dave

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 10:32 AM

do you know what their lighting requirements are, do they eat up nutriants like macro algae does? I did seem some red stuff like the one i have, so thats probally what it is. It wasn't shipped or anything, i got it on this island aroud where i live.

Anemonebuff · 02/21/2006, 10:34 AM

I do believe that they eat nutrients. And tangs love it!

dhoch · 02/21/2006, 10:46 AM

Yes it will eat up nutriants like other macro algaes...

Should be fine under most lighting (allthough like most algaes it will probably prefer a 6000K to the higher 20000K range).

Dave

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 10:51 AM

So why don't people use it insted of calupra or chaeto? Maybe i'll just pack my fuge full of the stuff, do you think it would work or does chaeto work better?

Anemonebuff · 02/21/2006, 10:54 AM

Probably not as readily available as the others.

dhoch · 02/21/2006, 10:56 AM

Good question amber...

Chaeto is a much stabeler macro the others (caulpra, and gracilera ) tend to deteriorate quicker especially when competing for nutrients (at least that's my experience)...

Also Calupra will attach to things which chaeto will not (which makes chaeto more desirable, because it's easier to maintain).

Dave

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 10:59 AM

I don't think the gracilera attaches to anything wither, i just kinda stuck it in the sand. In the water/ocean it was just kinda floating around with the current along with the red kind.

dhoch · 02/21/2006, 11:19 AM

Correct,

But in my experience it's a little more finicky than caluperla or chaeto. (read more likely to go sexual, or not thrive).

Dave

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 11:37 AM

I was reading up on it a little and found that it is finicky about light and is lee likly to thrive (like you said) but from what i read it doesn't go "sexual" like caulerpa. I guess i'll just see what happens

dhoch · 02/21/2006, 01:26 PM

Good luck with it...

Dave

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 07:05 PM

wow, the gracilera has really turned red. From what i have read, the more light it gets, the lighter the color. Where i got it, the water was shallow so it got tons of light. Since I have only 4watts per gal right now it's turning more reddish, it's kinda cool

hookdonreefs · 02/21/2006, 07:23 PM

Gracillia likes lots of current. It is cultured in cages by the shore with the waves crashing through it. It also requires better lighting than chaeto. I have both in my fuge and the gracillia is growing faster. I have a powerhead in there blasting at it.

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 09:16 PM

what color is yours? Did you notice how it gets lighter with the more light it has? I figured it would like high flow since all of it was growing near shore where it was geting knocked around by waves. There was so much of it, maybe i should get a bunch and bag it up to sell

Cutiewitbooty · 02/21/2006, 09:21 PM

Here is a pic of my tank with the gracilera in it. I still need to get the rest of the lighting equiptment and a new power strip for my refugium, then it will go into the fuge.

sean48183 · 02/21/2006, 09:30 PM

Adds kind of a cool look to the tank. Definately different. It turned red kind of quickly. I don't know that anything that happens that quick can be a good thing. Just a hunch. Good luck.

Airman · 02/21/2006, 11:56 PM

Nice tank

Cutiewitbooty · 02/22/2006, 11:07 AM

yeah the macro is even darker now, i wonder what it will do when i get my halides, think it might get lighter again? Seems to be doing ok theough, not getting limp or anything. The only downside to it in the tank though, is it catches little peices of food and gunk in it's vine things.

02/20/2006, 08:51 PM	#1
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	Plant/Maco/Seaweed ? ID Anyone know what type of plant this is? It looks almost like some type of macro or something. Any ideas? I know it native to south florida lol __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 07:48 AM	#3
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	bump for the moring people, anyone else know? __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 07:52 AM	#4
dhoch Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,762	Looks like "red Gracillaria"... a little color loss in it thought (has it been out of water or through some shipping or temp changes? Dave __________________ Check out my tanks website... click the red box above my post Current Tank Info: 180 gal Acrylic, 29 gal refugium, 40 gal sump, Mag 18 -> 2 Sea Swirls, Tunze 6100, 8 x 80W overdriven T5 Lights, ASM G4 skimmer

02/21/2006, 07:53 AM	#5
dhoch Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,762	I've alos seen Gracillaria in a "yellow" form that is what that might be. Dave __________________ Check out my tanks website... click the red box above my post Current Tank Info: 180 gal Acrylic, 29 gal refugium, 40 gal sump, Mag 18 -> 2 Sea Swirls, Tunze 6100, 8 x 80W overdriven T5 Lights, ASM G4 skimmer

02/21/2006, 10:32 AM	#6
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	do you know what their lighting requirements are, do they eat up nutriants like macro algae does? I did seem some red stuff like the one i have, so thats probally what it is. It wasn't shipped or anything, i got it on this island aroud where i live. __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/20/2006, 09:07 PM	#2
hawkfish21 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thornton, Colorado Posts: 1,968	It looks like Graciliaria. Tangs love it.

02/21/2006, 10:34 AM	#7
Anemonebuff Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: LI,NY Posts: 3,877	I do believe that they eat nutrients. And tangs love it!

02/21/2006, 10:46 AM	#8
dhoch Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,762	Yes it will eat up nutriants like other macro algaes... Should be fine under most lighting (allthough like most algaes it will probably prefer a 6000K to the higher 20000K range). Dave __________________ Check out my tanks website... click the red box above my post Current Tank Info: 180 gal Acrylic, 29 gal refugium, 40 gal sump, Mag 18 -> 2 Sea Swirls, Tunze 6100, 8 x 80W overdriven T5 Lights, ASM G4 skimmer

02/21/2006, 10:51 AM	#9
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	So why don't people use it insted of calupra or chaeto? Maybe i'll just pack my fuge full of the stuff, do you think it would work or does chaeto work better? __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 10:54 AM	#10
Anemonebuff Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: LI,NY Posts: 3,877	Probably not as readily available as the others.

02/21/2006, 10:56 AM	#11
dhoch Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,762	Good question amber... Chaeto is a much stabeler macro the others (caulpra, and gracilera ) tend to deteriorate quicker especially when competing for nutrients (at least that's my experience)... Also Calupra will attach to things which chaeto will not (which makes chaeto more desirable, because it's easier to maintain). Dave __________________ Check out my tanks website... click the red box above my post Current Tank Info: 180 gal Acrylic, 29 gal refugium, 40 gal sump, Mag 18 -> 2 Sea Swirls, Tunze 6100, 8 x 80W overdriven T5 Lights, ASM G4 skimmer

02/21/2006, 10:59 AM	#12
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	I don't think the gracilera attaches to anything wither, i just kinda stuck it in the sand. In the water/ocean it was just kinda floating around with the current along with the red kind. __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 11:19 AM	#13
dhoch Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,762	Correct, But in my experience it's a little more finicky than caluperla or chaeto. (read more likely to go sexual, or not thrive). Dave __________________ Check out my tanks website... click the red box above my post Current Tank Info: 180 gal Acrylic, 29 gal refugium, 40 gal sump, Mag 18 -> 2 Sea Swirls, Tunze 6100, 8 x 80W overdriven T5 Lights, ASM G4 skimmer

02/21/2006, 11:37 AM	#14
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	I was reading up on it a little and found that it is finicky about light and is lee likly to thrive (like you said) but from what i read it doesn't go "sexual" like caulerpa. I guess i'll just see what happens __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 01:26 PM	#15
dhoch Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,762	Good luck with it... Dave __________________ Check out my tanks website... click the red box above my post Current Tank Info: 180 gal Acrylic, 29 gal refugium, 40 gal sump, Mag 18 -> 2 Sea Swirls, Tunze 6100, 8 x 80W overdriven T5 Lights, ASM G4 skimmer

02/21/2006, 07:05 PM	#16
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	wow, the gracilera has really turned red. From what i have read, the more light it gets, the lighter the color. Where i got it, the water was shallow so it got tons of light. Since I have only 4watts per gal right now it's turning more reddish, it's kinda cool __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 07:23 PM	#17
hookdonreefs Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 97	Gracillia likes lots of current. It is cultured in cages by the shore with the waves crashing through it. It also requires better lighting than chaeto. I have both in my fuge and the gracillia is growing faster. I have a powerhead in there blasting at it.

02/21/2006, 09:16 PM	#18
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	what color is yours? Did you notice how it gets lighter with the more light it has? I figured it would like high flow since all of it was growing near shore where it was geting knocked around by waves. There was so much of it, maybe i should get a bunch and bag it up to sell __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 09:21 PM	#19
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	Here is a pic of my tank with the gracilera in it. I still need to get the rest of the lighting equiptment and a new power strip for my refugium, then it will go into the fuge. __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~

02/21/2006, 09:30 PM	#20
sean48183 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: michigan Posts: 1,577	Adds kind of a cool look to the tank. Definately different. It turned red kind of quickly. I don't know that anything that happens that quick can be a good thing. Just a hunch. Good luck.

02/21/2006, 11:56 PM	#21
Airman Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 643	Nice tank __________________ What is man, that thou art mindful of him?...:) Current Tank Info: 55 Gal, DSB, protein skimmer, UV light, Sump/Refugium

02/22/2006, 11:07 AM	#22
Cutiewitbooty Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alaska For 18 Years, Now Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 2,795	yeah the macro is even darker now, i wonder what it will do when i get my halides, think it might get lighter again? Seems to be doing ok theough, not getting limp or anything. The only downside to it in the tank though, is it catches little peices of food and gunk in it's vine things. __________________ WARNING: Taking my advice may result in personal injury and/or jail time. ~Amber~