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Seems to be very popular topic here ;)
Well, here are some pictures of an algae that grows on a Bali rock in my refugium. Recently I posted some of those pictures into another forum and got couple of guesses that it may be a Laurencia or Chondria sp.
Could you ID it? Thanks in advance!
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040813-006.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040812-009.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040812-007.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040812-001.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040813-003.jpg
Next two pictures are taken out of water in natural daylight.
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040829-001.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040829-002.jpg
Frick-n-Frags
08/31/2004, 02:03 PM
:wave:
:D
(ps you have to show everyone that other gorgeous macro you have too)
Originally posted by Frick-n-Frags
:wave:
:D
(ps you have to show everyone that other gorgeous macro you have too)
Hi! :wavehand:
Let's proceed step by step :dance:
horge
08/31/2004, 09:36 PM
Acanthophora muscoides?
Some of the pics don't look quite right,
though thallus branching varies widely
from one specimen to the next,
depending mostly on water movement.
It's the reddish determinate branchlets
that hook me.
http://mabma.thereeftank.com/acanthophora_muscoides.html
:) horge
Thanks, horge :thumbsup:
It's certainly Acanthophora, let's hope not spicifera. ;) I heard that tangs like it and put a bunch of it into main tank. It came easily off from the rock, so I guess it is a muscoides though. After couple of days I noticed that half of it was gone, although I didn't see any fish to eat it. Today my wife said that blue and yellow tangs and foxface were all together pulling off small branches and eating it like cows :cool:
OK, I have lot of still unidentified algaes on the same rock. If you do not mind here's the next one.
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040814-001.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040814-007.jpg
The same two weeks later.
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040901-002.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040901-001.jpg
More pictures for experts :rolleyes:
#2
Beatiful red algae
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040814-005.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040901-006-1.jpg
#3
Could be Acetabularia, " mermaid's cup or wineglass"?
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040722-017.jpg http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040722-017-1.jpg
#4
Free floating "bird's nest". Maybe a sort of Chaetomorpha? Some "real" Chaetomorpha is seen on the bottom. http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040901-003.jpg
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040901-004-1.jpg
#5
? The tiny red dots on the branches are little flatworms, hope harmless ones :confused:
http://hepatus.mine.nu/aquarium/pics/040901-005.jpg
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