ID, I think Halimeda

liv4speed1 · #1 10/12/2003, 02:55 PM

Is this Halimeda? Curious, I have it growing in one of my tanks and wonder everytime I see it.

Thanks

. it seems to be doing very well.

horge · #2 10/12/2003, 05:17 PM

Yes.

evermann · #3 10/12/2003, 06:46 PM

thats it, but cant quite remem what specific type but they pretty much care the same.......

liv4speed1 · #4 10/12/2003, 09:16 PM

so I have figured out what might be eating up the calcium in the little tank

. I think it looks pretty cool myself, thanks for the ID confirmation

evermann · #5 10/12/2003, 09:52 PM

o'indeed its a calcium eater.....

Puffygrrl · #6 10/22/2003, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by evermann
o'indeed its a calcium eater.....

So much so, that I hadn't added Ca to my tank in 2 weeks due to a high reading and noticed my halimeda hadn't grown at all. I added 20mL to my 80-gallon reef and within 1/2 hour new tips had started to grown on the halimeda. Little Ca eaters! I love it though, it adds such a nice touch to a reef tank.

liv4speed1 · #7 10/22/2003, 03:39 PM

I have nothing in my 10 gallon tank that needs calcium except that

. I think it looks cool, I was gonna pull it at first sight, but after seeing it when it's large I really like it

liv4speed1 · #8 11/23/2003, 10:30 AM

A month and a half later, it's a pretty quick grower. From a bit of a macro shot in the first picture (with the Zoanthid polyp) to the shot with a Dwarf A. ocellaris

it usually colors up a bit more during the day, such a nice macro