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Old 12/02/2005, 05:45 PM
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Orange 'fluorescing' awesome macro..

Look what I found and sweet talked some LFS guys out of earlier today? I am pretty sure this is Halymenia floresii, I think its gorgeous. Thirty seconds under my light and it starting coloring up into orange spots at the ends of the fronds.. oooooh. Stuck it into one of the prop tanks that has 11 wpg of daylight flavor and the whole section I put in there had gone completely bright neon orange inside of a few minutes. Giddy with delight. I know, I know.. its just algae, lets not loose our heads.

Lets hope I can convince it to grow. I wonder if this is the stuff sometimes ref'd as dragons tongue macro (?).



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Old 12/02/2005, 06:08 PM
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Pretty cool, Sarah. I hope it does well for you!
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Old 12/02/2005, 07:15 PM
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Cool find.
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Old 12/02/2005, 07:42 PM
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Oh La La! Keep us posted on it's condition!
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Old 12/02/2005, 08:45 PM
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Nice! I haven't been able to talk one of my LFSs into letting me "take the colony off his hands".

I still keep trying though... for a shop of almost all corals, he gets some nice macro's as hitch hikers.
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Old 12/03/2005, 07:21 PM
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The spots of the red that had done a cool neon orange trick yesterday are now back to the normal red color.. and actually a few spots went clear. Sad.

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Old 12/04/2005, 01:36 AM
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:O what happened to santa manatee?
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Old 12/04/2005, 03:25 AM
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oh very nice macro!

hmmmm.....
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/294/5547/1655.pdf
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Old 12/05/2005, 08:56 PM
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Now, Triterium, I know you're not complaining about my avatar after you got rid of my favorite one of yours! That was a very nice little article.. I gotta say when I first saw the color on the macro I was thinking.. "ooooh a GFP reporter alternative!" I need to get out of the lab.

PS: Are you going to post any updates of your monster 180 soon? I'd love to see how its coming along (or the smaller grass tank if thats still around too).

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Old 12/05/2005, 11:23 PM
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Dang, i posted the wrong link!! And now i cant find the one i wanted to post.

Hey, you took MY fovorite picture off your website

My planted tank is quickly turning into a FOWLR tank. I still have seagrasses which are growing but not as well as id like. My mangroves are growing very well though

I wish i had a tank able to support cool macros like your red one

P.S. I like RNA too

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Old 12/06/2005, 08:59 AM
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You two really need to get together!
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Old 12/06/2005, 02:49 PM
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I dunno Suzy.. I think the FBI will be after Triterium soon.. with his interests in H5N1... mmhmm! I dont wanna get arrested too. Looks like he's dabbling in membrane protein translocators to me. Honestly the genes I like to play with have better names (and are therefore superior.. ) Dicer, Argonaute, Superman.. yeah!

This, uh, correlates to macroalgae because..

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Old 12/07/2005, 12:24 PM
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/hijack/

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Honestly the genes I like to play with have better names (and are therefore superior.. ) Dicer, Argonaute, Superman.. yeah!
You really work on gene silencing? Whether I like it or not, RNAi will be the centerpiece of one of my next projects. You may get peppered with naive questions soon.

/hijack off/
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Old 12/07/2005, 01:51 PM
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Dave.. yep.. RNAi, smallRNA, etc. Seem to be a lot of people falling into this the last few months.. sorta resigning themselves to using the prep. Its not so bad. If I can help I'd be happy to, and if I cant help I'll just forward q's on to the postdocs - who will do whatever I say.. because I make the coffee around here.

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Old 12/11/2005, 01:32 PM
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And to think I came here to take a break from studying biochem.

P.S. I do undergrad. work on cilia and flagella . . .
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Old 12/13/2005, 07:53 PM
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hey sarah, i got the same thing. the orange spots are usually the areas that are on the decline. nice find took me more than half a year to get some of that hehe
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Old 12/13/2005, 09:02 PM
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If we're revealing our hidden nerdy underbellies, I'll fess up too: I was once an X-ray crystallographer before selling out to become the man. Ah, the shame...
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Old 12/13/2005, 10:22 PM
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Oooh crystallography is soo cool, we just sent out some samples for that.

Blue.. I think its weird that it did it in response to the relatively high light levels. That'll teach me to not light-adapt a macro from low light LFS tanks to my display. All the spots that were orange are now clear, though the rest of the thallus looks good. Have you had yours attach yet? Two weeks now nearly and mine hasnt grown or attached much. Hmmmm.

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Old 12/19/2005, 03:32 PM
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hey sarah that is the stuff that i have in my seahorse tank it seems it doestt actually attach but will grow a hard base

a friend of mine has hers under vhos and it grows likea r eally bad weed i ahve not had the same luck with mine under low light pc's good luck with it though and oh yeah seems its a calcium based macro and tangs wont touch it
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Old 12/19/2005, 04:49 PM
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This species tends to be really slimey out of the water.. like gelatinous goo. I think, if you have one that is stiff, or calcerous, then its likely to be another species. Calcerous reds.. hard to think of many examples. I think the Laurencia genus fits that, but not something easily confused with Halymenia.

Got a pic of your red?

The Halymenia, as a quick update, is doing alright.. no real growth of it and the clear areas on the edges of the fronds (that flouresced) are all gone now. But there are small indentations and burrs forming on the thallus now, they look like they might be the beginnings of the development of new fronds. Fun fun!

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Old 12/19/2005, 10:14 PM
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I may have gotten ahold of a start of Ochtodes tonight!




Made an update to my website too.. The hormone additions seem to be encouraging faster shoal grass reproduction, there are lots of new plants since I initially planted. The test tanks are even more telling, but I gotta keep a few secrets for now until I know for sure that its attributable to the hormones and not something else.

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Old 12/19/2005, 11:39 PM
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If not Ochtodes.. it may be Chondria littoralis after consulting my macro ID books. We'll see what it decides to grow up into and figure it out then I suppose.

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Old 12/20/2005, 12:46 AM
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Are those bubbles from oxygen production like it FW plants?
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Old 12/20/2005, 12:53 AM
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Yes! In all fairness I did do a water change earlier today and the tank always go bubbling crazy after a water change of any amount. I guess all the influx of extra dissolved CO2 makes the plants happy. Which.. is a reason to start to contemplate carbon dioxide dosing.. cause I've been noticing big shifts in pH even with my current alkalinity management program.

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Old 12/20/2005, 06:53 AM
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Which.. is a reason to start to contemplate.. carbon dioxide dosing cause I've been noticing big shifts in pH even with my current alkalinity management program.
Looks like it's time for a new thread (reference my sig)
 

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