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05-01-2008, 08:40 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: South Florida
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|  Two new discoveries
I love Live Rock.  Every time I have taken a close up photo to show y'all I have found a new organism or two.
Here are two for today:
While taking the pic of my unidentified coral I noticed this: 
As I enlarged the image I came upon this: 
Any idea as to What these are? | 
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05-01-2008, 07:36 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Northern Virginia Age: 49
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It looks like a branch of macroalgae, without the green color. | |
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05-01-2008, 07:40 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: South Florida
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Originally Posted by SAW39  It looks like a branch of macroalgae, without the green color. | Both of 'em? | |
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05-01-2008, 11:06 PM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
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rip them out before you have a tank full of caulerpa instead of beautiful corals.then get more hermits and snails and maybe a fish that likes to eat algae
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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05-14-2008, 12:43 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bombay India
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The top picture is of the halimeda variety of calcarious algae. The other photo with the redmarking is also a form of very brittle, branching calcarious algae. The halimeda though looks like it is being taken over by brown diatom algae.
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05-14-2008, 10:17 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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I could have sworn I saw some bryopsis in there as well... no good.
Hope it's just me... _________ Kris
180 gallon AGA display, 2 250 MH, 1 400 MH, 2 65 PC, AAT moonlight, DIY wet dry, sump, and fuge, G2 skimmer, KNOP C calcium reactor, auto top off, dual pump closed loop, Oceans Motions valve, phosphate reactor, fuidized sand filter, Lighthouse controller keeping it all in check.  My 180 Tank Thread | |
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05-14-2008, 11:33 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Originally Posted by KOgle I could have sworn I saw some bryopsis in there as well... no good.
Hope it's just me... | I thought so too but it's too blurry for a positive i.d. | |
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05-14-2008, 11:36 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: South Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KOgle I could have sworn I saw some bryopsis in there as well... no good.
Hope it's just me... | KOgle and Amcrrig,
If you can clue me in as to where it is I can take a better photo. | |
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05-14-2008, 11:38 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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The green "fern looking" algae in the bottom right of the pictures you posted. | |
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05-14-2008, 11:41 AM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Garden Creek,VA
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the top pic is algae no doubt, but the bottom one, could be some kind of hard coral, need better pic to Id it
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