This sprung up in my old temperate build several months ago out of nowhere (likely from a spore). It has grown slowly, yet steadily ever since. I would assume it hitchhiked on some North-Pacific seaweed.
Which Brown Macroalgae Is This?
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This sprung up in my old temperate build several months ago out of nowhere (likely from a spore). It has grown slowly, yet steadily ever since. I would assume it hitchhiked on some North-Pacific seaweed.
Looks like nemastoms or rosenvingia crucis
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They seem a little too red and the form is different.
I have no idea but it looks very interesting! lol
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By roots, you mean holdfast? Sort of. It’s holdfast is bulb-like, similar to the holdfast of this Sargassum:
http://californiadiver.com/wp-conte...mall-holdfast-of-mature-Sargassum-horneri.jpg
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Kelp holdfast look kind of like tree roots so its likely not kelp if it looks like sargassum to bad that would be really cool always thought a mini kelp forest would make a wicked biotope.
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My old temperate build achieved that. My water parameters were probably not great, though, and most of the algae wilted.
The Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) on the right of the second image only lasted about a week (looked fantastic while it lasted).
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The brown macroalgae decided it would… forsake my hospitality…
Time to take some better pictures:
Notice how some of its blades possess mid-ribs (such as the rounded one featured prominently on image #4).
Time to take some better pictures:
Notice how some of its blades possess mid-ribs (such as the rounded one featured prominently on image #4).
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