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11-24-2004, 07:49 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Moreno Valley, CA,California
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i picked up a peice of live rock a while ago that had a cool looking fern type of plant on it. now it has grown pretty big and is kind of starting to shade some of my polyps. the question i have is can i cut the plant and move it somewhere else and how would i do it? 
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11-25-2004, 02:06 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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11-25-2004, 05:19 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Waco, TX,Texas
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You said it looks like a fern? If so then the blades must look like feathers on a bird. If so than you my have one of to types of macroalgae.
Caulerpa ashmeadii- Feathery blades, young shoots are light green in color but darken when they get older.
Caulerpa mexicana- Blades are also feather like, but are smaller and more compact. The blades are flattened and not as broad as Caulerpa ashmeadii.
As with just about any type of macro, you should be able to cut it and rubber-band it to a different piece of liverock. Hope this helps out.
phil
Definitions of macroalgea come from The New Saltwater Aquarium Handbook
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11-25-2004, 06:20 AM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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Here is a good link with plenty of pictures. http://www.liveplants.gulf-coast.net/ If it is some type of Caulerpa You can cut it, break it, smash it and it will grow back eventually cause it's pretty hardy stuff. If it is something else... I guess it depends on how green your thumb is
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11-25-2004, 07:00 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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Hey all.. I have 2 pieces of LR with what seems to be plants growing on them probebly not what you have tresguey thought...
heres the link to the pic anyway plants
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11-25-2004, 07:34 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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Hey Marc! I have the same things! I was wondering what they are as well! Maybe someone can help us out. | |
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11-25-2004, 07:41 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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cool birdlady. and it really doesnt look or feel like algae its a plant of some sort.. talked about it to the guy at my LFS and he didnt know what it was either.
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11-25-2004, 09:28 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Melbourne, VIC,Victoria
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11-25-2004, 09:50 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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That could be it John.... tried to find more info on Chaetomorpha but didnt find much.
Thanks.
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11-25-2004, 09:55 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Melbourne, VIC,Victoria
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Marc,
No probs :-)
Probably the only true plant that grows totally submerged in the ocean is sea grass, as far as I know everthing else is algae of one sort or another.
John
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