Blue Algae ID Please

Apistoguy · #1 01/15/2006, 11:56 PM

Hoping someone here can get me an id on this blue algae

Cheers,
ApistoGuy

bluenassarius · #2 01/16/2006, 12:30 AM

never seen that before.

AIMFish · #3 01/16/2006, 04:53 PM

New to me also. Nice name, still keeping apistos?

Apistoguy · #4 01/16/2006, 09:18 PM

Not any more AIMFish. They are still my favorite fish tho... had about 18 species at one time... Really confusing when the females got mixed together

AIMFish · #5 01/16/2006, 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by Apistoguy
... Really confusing when the females got mixed together

Hey, that's life in general there!

Samala · #6 01/16/2006, 11:27 PM

Boy do I understand that problem! I had lovely groups of eunotus complex species that were all separate and somehow I got females mixed up.. all downhill from there. Sheesh. When the resulting fry grew up I had some interesting markings, and realized what must have happened.

Your algae kinda looks like Lobophora, though I havent seen it shown as fluoresced before.. are we looking at a top-down view with some actinics going?

>Sarah

Apistoguy · #7 01/17/2006, 12:30 AM

thats a top down shot with a 400w 20k XM without actinics.... Now my lights are off and i just took a flashlight to it and it looks the same in that pic.... so i don't think its the light

Cheers,
ApistoGuy

AIMFish · #8 01/17/2006, 07:33 AM

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Originally posted by Apistoguy
thats a top down shot with a 400w 20k XM without actinics....

That's some strong lighting! There was a thread last month about fluorescing algae and I thought it was speculated that strong light was doing it, I have to go so I can't search now

Apistoguy · #9 01/31/2006, 12:08 AM

got some better pics here

Elite · #10 01/31/2006, 12:30 AM

Those look so cool...

moosejac · #11 01/31/2006, 12:54 AM

I am soooooo drooling...

DensityMan · #12 01/31/2006, 08:04 AM

Beautiful!

bluenassarius · #13 01/31/2006, 10:26 AM

it looks like coral from the top down shot

Samala · #14 01/31/2006, 10:51 AM

May have an ID on your weed! According to one of my lab mates it most resembles a Distromium sp.. Another genus in the Dictyotaceae as is Lobophora and Padina, which this guy resembles.

Go to algaebase.org, plug in that genus name in the Image search and you'll return back two species names, flabellatum and skottsbergii. D. skottsbergii shows some of the flourescence you see in your shots in the algaebase photo. D. flabellatum shows the neat curling of successive layers of algae as your pic nicely shows.

There are actually five species in this genus, and unfortunately I cannot help you get much past a genus level ID. There are flabellatum (the original type species), skottsbergii, decumbens, didymothrix and multifidum.

Just a neat note, this genus seems to be restricted mostly to S/SE Australia, New Zealand, Japan and restricted island chains in South America. No wonder I couldnt find it in my algae books.

>Sarah

Apistoguy · #15 01/31/2006, 09:24 PM

Thanks Sarah

818 · #16 03/27/2007, 11:19 PM

Anyone know where I can get some of this blue macro?