New here and need an ID

Kase · 01-30-2006, 09:32 PM

Hi all, hoping you could give me an ID on this Algae

Cheers,
Kase

**TheOldSalt** · 01-31-2006, 08:33 AM

WOW, I want some!
Isn't that pretty?

The color made me immediately think of Dictyota bartayresii, but a closer look made me want to put it into the fluffy-ruffles group of genus Lobophora. However, it lacks the required hairyness.
On closer inspection I could see the rings of calcification in your specimen, though, and so I think it's Padina or something very similar. Padina is typically a plain brown color, but occasionally it turns blue, green or even purple. I'm sorry; did I say occasionally? I meant rarely.
Your specimen has ruffled edges, though, not smoothly rounded ones, so it's possibly not Padina, either, but something very closely related.

Stypopodium hawaiiensis is another possibility. Your specimen is still very small, so maybe it hasn't yet grown the extensions on the leaf edges. Hmmm... that's pretty likely, actually.

So, those are my two guesses. Stypopodium hawaiiensis or some blue ruffled form of Padina. I wish I could be more help, but all these new species flooding into the hobby are more than I can keep up with sometimes, and there aren't yet many books covering these. However, something as dazzling as this must have surely captured the attention of reefkeeping hobbyists aplenty, so somebody somewhere is bound to know what you have, and may well post the name here within a day or two. People love ID threads, you know, so they'll look.

**Fishfirst** · 01-31-2006, 10:14 AM

if it grows... how much is shipping to 54481?

AshleytheGreat · 02-01-2006, 06:41 PM

Wow that is reallly pretty!

01-30-2006, 09:32 PM	#1
Kase Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 29 Posts: 1	New here and need an ID Hi all, hoping you could give me an ID on this Algae Cheers, Kase

01-31-2006, 08:33 AM	#2
TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,360	WOW, I want some! Isn't that pretty? The color made me immediately think of Dictyota bartayresii, but a closer look made me want to put it into the fluffy-ruffles group of genus Lobophora. However, it lacks the required hairyness. On closer inspection I could see the rings of calcification in your specimen, though, and so I think it's Padina or something very similar. Padina is typically a plain brown color, but occasionally it turns blue, green or even purple. I'm sorry; did I say occasionally? I meant rarely. Your specimen has ruffled edges, though, not smoothly rounded ones, so it's possibly not Padina, either, but something very closely related. Stypopodium hawaiiensis is another possibility. Your specimen is still very small, so maybe it hasn't yet grown the extensions on the leaf edges. Hmmm... that's pretty likely, actually. So, those are my two guesses. Stypopodium hawaiiensis or some blue ruffled form of Padina. I wish I could be more help, but all these new species flooding into the hobby are more than I can keep up with sometimes, and there aren't yet many books covering these. However, something as dazzling as this must have surely captured the attention of reefkeeping hobbyists aplenty, so somebody somewhere is bound to know what you have, and may well post the name here within a day or two. People love ID threads, you know, so they'll look. Last edited by TheOldSalt; 01-31-2006 at 08:38 AM.

01-31-2006, 10:14 AM	#3
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,541	if it grows... how much is shipping to 54481? __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

02-01-2006, 06:41 PM	#4
AshleytheGreat Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Mi Town Posts: 785	Wow that is reallly pretty! __________________ So let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this malarkey with any sort of further response.

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