loosing colors and cohesion

basile · Feb 5, 2014

This is my refugium , i bought $307 worth of algae all parameters are fine, these two macro algae;

Halymenia ; Dragon's breath

Ulva , sea letuce

Both pictures were taken when the algaes were healthy, now they've become like tissue paper, almost transparent and have disapeared nothing to shoot really. i still have healthy ones, thats my mystery , why some and not all at the same time.

Are both loosing cohesion and color. Both are in my opinion being given a shalack by my pods, who are just going crazy over them , because non of the other red algae have lost their colors , so that eliminates trace elements , the same for my other green algaes . Any other explanation you might have. that i don't see. Thanks for your time.

GHill762 · Feb 5, 2014

N&P? My macros lose color when I don't feed my fish/tank enough..

Reefing Madness · Feb 5, 2014

GHill762 said:
N&P? My macros lose color when I don't feed my fish/tank enough..

Agreed. That stuff is like coral, ya gotta treat em right or they are gone. Lil more difficult to keep than Cheato.

basile · Feb 7, 2014

Two products

Well i found these 2 products that are specific to macro's , helpfull to corals as well in some fashion but one is design for macroalgae.

This one contains, Manganese, not Magnesium as i had to tell the clerk 25 times and still couldn't spell it....Probably left high school too fast... Manganese for algae ( Mn) on the periodic table a transition metal, Magnesium for corals, (Mg) an Alki earth metal,

Well my research has brought me to these two components, their were others but over dosing is not a good idea. I've contacted the seller of my macroalgae and they're sending their parameters at which they keep their stocks to help me keep mine. Imagine that having water too clean lol.

And iodine and iodide for your red macroalgaes before they loose their bright red colors.