Seaweed, sea weed, help ID Plz!

[gimincorp]

Hi It's me again!
I just got this thing from costco. It was sold for about $2.00. It is about 6-8" wide with bushy stardy hmm branches (?). Reddish/brownish color.
I got it to add diversity to my tank, help stabilize its parameters and maybe my fish will munch on them?
BUT WHAT IS THIS THING?!

 

[roka64]

PM me tomorrow, unless fluff gets ahold of this first. It looks like you may have an excess of nutrients in your tank (the green algae too).

 

[Fluff]

lol Thanks Scott.
It looks like red gracilaria to me.
http://reefcleaners.org/index.php?p...facturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=34

 

[usmcmarc]

lol Thanks Scott.
It looks like red gracilaria to me.

agreed

 

[melosu58]

Cindy`s right as usual.

 

[ccCapt]

Yep...tangs love it.

 

[melosu58]

My LFS used to have alot of it and he would call it sea kelp. Have ya`ll heard it called that?

 

[roka64]

I may be wrong, but I think kelp is a generic term.....I think kelp gets really big.

 

[Innovator]

All common names are generic lol

 

[cmor1701d]

That would last about 5 minutes in my tank. The tangs would take about 4 minutes to discover it and 1 minute to devour it

 

[melosu58]

Same in mine also. LOL

 

[gimincorp]

That would last about 5 minutes in my tank. The tangs would take about 4 minutes to discover it and 1 minute to devour it

I wish I could see that! My two fish are kind of indifferent to it. Do clowns and damsels feed on this?
I'm also looking for a green one that inhibits phosphates.

 

[Innovator]

Clowns and damsels prefer a more carnivorous diet. Caulerpa racemosa and Chaetomorpha take up nutrients most efficiently in competing with nondesireable algaes.

 

[melosu58]

Yes as James said your clowns and damsels will not eat it. We were talking about tangs (surgeonfish) that are herbivores. I keep my refuge full of it to take care of the excessive nutrients in my tank. I`ll pull a ball of it out to feed my tangs everyonce in a while.