plants

i picked up a peice of live rock a while ago that had a cool looking fern type of plant on it. now it has grown pretty big and is kind of starting to shade some of my polyps. the question i have is can i cut the plant and move it somewhere else and how would i do it? ;D

 

Gotta Picture?

 

You said it looks like a fern? If so then the blades must look like feathers on a bird. If so than you my have one of to types of macroalgae.

Caulerpa ashmeadii- Feathery blades, young shoots are light green in color but darken when they get older.

Caulerpa mexicana- Blades are also feather like, but are smaller and more compact. The blades are flattened and not as broad as Caulerpa ashmeadii.

As with just about any type of macro, you should be able to cut it and rubber-band it to a different piece of liverock. Hope this helps out.


phil

Definitions of macroalgea come from The New Saltwater Aquarium Handbook

 

Here is a good link with plenty of pictures. http://www.liveplants.gulf-coast.net/ If it is some type of Caulerpa You can cut it, break it, smash it and it will grow back eventually cause it's pretty hardy stuff. If it is something else... I guess it depends on how green your thumb is

 

Hey all.. I have 2 pieces of LR with what seems to be plants growing on them probebly not what you have tresguey thought...

heres the link to the pic anyway plants

Marc.

 

Hey Marc! I have the same things! I was wondering what they are as well! Maybe someone can help us out.

 

cool birdlady. and it really doesnt look or feel like algae its a plant of some sort.. talked about it to the guy at my LFS and he didnt know what it was either.

Marc.

 

How about Chaetomorpha?

http://www.livingreefimages.com/Page3.html

John

 

That could be it John.... tried to find more info on Chaetomorpha but didnt find much.

Thanks.

Marc.

 

Marc,

No probs

Probably the only true plant that grows totally submerged in the ocean is sea grass, as far as I know everthing else is algae of one sort or another.

John