When algea crashes

[Ravensaxo]

When macro algea starts to crash can it revive itself or is it uselss ???????????????????????????????????????

[Tetley]

Hi Rob,

IIRC

Chaeto will not crash, nor calupra (if lit for more than 14 hours).

HTH

[Electric Monk]

When macro algea starts to crash can it revive itself or is it uselss ???????????????????????????????????????

Crash or nibbled on and looking a bit rubbish? Remove all the rubbish bits and i'm sure it will be fine. I like growing mine in my tank (not to everybody's taste but..... :D) Sometimes it needs a trim so I prune it down to 'roots' and it soon re-grows. Seems to work, water change due and nitrate is 5ppm

[Ravensaxo]

Was in my lfs and they had some in their tank as it was starting to go white a bit they where pulling it out it looked ok so i asked for it , they give me it and a little rock with a bit of xenia on it , but when i got it home it doesnt look as grean as i thought has gone a pale ish grean picked the white bits out should i bother with it or bin it ????????????
my sump is lit 24hrs thought i might give it a try
here's a pic

[Electric Monk]

Looks like halimeda?

http://a1272.g.akamai.net/7/1272/1121/20020220192316/www.peteducation.com/images/articles/pw80740halimeda_plant.jpg

The Hawaiian Halimeda plant usually comes as a spherical clump about the size of a baseball. This species is grown in the pristine waters of the Hawaiian Islands, and is much larger and fuller than specimens available from the Atlantic or Caribbean. It separates itself from other plants by using calcium to build a support structure within its blades. Algae grazers still enjoy nipping at the plant but usually will not eat the algae, giving the plant an extended life span when housed with herbivores. Halimeda is one of the hardier and slower growing of the macroalgae.

[Tetley]

Was in my lfs and they had some in their tank as it was starting to go white a bit they where pulling it out it looked ok so i asked for it , they give me it and a little rock with a bit of xenia on it , but when i got it home it doesnt look as grean as i thought has gone a pale ish grean picked the white bits out should i bother with it or bin it ????????????
my sump is lit 24hrs thought i might give it a try
here's a pic


Hi Rob, who do use as LFS - pm me please if not a sponser.

Ta

Ian

[Ravensaxo]

get in the chat room ian

[Ravensaxo]

Cheers monk looks like that , you think it will pull through ?
or shall i bin it , ???????????????????????

[Electric Monk]

I would give it a chance myself mate.

p'haps give it a bit of a prune and add some calcium to help it along.

As a side note....My local garden center had a small bit of LR with 2 'stalks' of it on........they was asking £22.99 LMAO

[Macca]

make sure calcium and alk are fine, it is a calcerous (sp) algae and the die of is 'calcium base' I would say leave it and give it a chance as it is quite expensive. Halmidea sometimes called the money algae.

James

[MR Teee]

make sure calcium and alk are fine, it is a calcerous (sp) algae and the die of is 'calcium base' I would say leave it and give it a chance as it is quite expensive. Halmidea sometimes called the money algae.

James

James, are you serious!!

I have chucked a serious amount of this algae out in the last year, it grows in my main tank.

Ravensaxo, when this stuff dies, it goes completely white. Until then I would leave it in. This stuff also uses quite a bit of calcium, so watch your levels.

[Ravensaxo]

cheers guys
will see what happens

[fishface]

when mine went white and dropped off the rock it grew back at a latter date it seems to get so big then dies:rolleyes: alan

[mfcfan]

Looks like halimeda?

The Hawaiian Halimeda plant usually comes as a spherical clump about the size of a baseball. This species is grown in the pristine waters of the Hawaiian Islands, and is much larger and fuller than specimens available from the Atlantic or Caribbean. It separates itself from other plants by using calcium to build a support structure within its blades. Algae grazers still enjoy nipping at the plant but usually will not eat the algae, giving the plant an extended life span when housed with herbivores. Halimeda is one of the hardier and slower growing of the macroalgae.

i have a bit in my tank and wow it does grow slow however it is a nice looking algea though