Red macro Algae ID needed..
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Here is the most recent reply from C. Delbeek
Unfortunately, there is no way for me to know when or where this algae came from. I used dry dead rock but I have added lots of corals attached to rocks. Maybe it came from the west coast... The LFS that I purchase a lot of corals from gets most of their shipments from over there....
Boomer, any luck with getting an ID on your algae sample?
Unfortunately, there is no way for me to know when or where this algae came from. I used dry dead rock but I have added lots of corals attached to rocks. Maybe it came from the west coast... The LFS that I purchase a lot of corals from gets most of their shipments from over there....
Boomer, any luck with getting an ID on your algae sample?
Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
That is a copy paste of my e-mail. Today I'm going to write him another one with more info but the info will be useless.
I have known Charles a long time, through the internet and there are often things we like to say about the ID of plants, corals and many inverts but we usually just keep our mouths shut. I kinda did that on that anemone thread a couple of weeks back. He puts in words here
otherwise this is like showing someone a fin and asking what fish it came from.
This is very true. The other issue is many corals and plants get morphed in aquariums and are impossible to ID to species. Finally, in case someone reads that e-mail wrong, that is not Charles Delbeek talking but Dr. Isabel Abbott, the worlds leading expert on red algae. I'm 58 years old and she has been studying algae before I was even born.:bugout: 83 years old or so. And she is almost clueless to what it is :smack: I also **use to send pics** of anemones to Dr. Daphne Dunn Fautin. The pics where very clear to fairly clear. "Boom I can not ID that anemone by its picture. "I need the real thing " Me, I was 99 % sure it was anemone X, Y or Z. But allot of Tax guys and girls are like that, so ID unless real thing in hand. So I need to slow down on "it" is X, Y, or Z. If Dr Jen Veron stopped in here for an ID on a perfect picture of a SPS and someone said it was X, Y or Z, he would say flat out, "you can not ID a Acropora sp by a picture period, especially one that has been in reef tank for some time." He told me once that an Acropora that has been in a reef tank for a long time that he may not be able to ID it at all to species level
Many SPS in this hobby are probably mis-ID, same for plants and many inverts.
I have known Charles a long time, through the internet and there are often things we like to say about the ID of plants, corals and many inverts but we usually just keep our mouths shut. I kinda did that on that anemone thread a couple of weeks back. He puts in words here
otherwise this is like showing someone a fin and asking what fish it came from.
This is very true. The other issue is many corals and plants get morphed in aquariums and are impossible to ID to species. Finally, in case someone reads that e-mail wrong, that is not Charles Delbeek talking but Dr. Isabel Abbott, the worlds leading expert on red algae. I'm 58 years old and she has been studying algae before I was even born.:bugout: 83 years old or so. And she is almost clueless to what it is :smack: I also **use to send pics** of anemones to Dr. Daphne Dunn Fautin. The pics where very clear to fairly clear. "Boom I can not ID that anemone by its picture. "I need the real thing " Me, I was 99 % sure it was anemone X, Y or Z. But allot of Tax guys and girls are like that, so ID unless real thing in hand. So I need to slow down on "it" is X, Y, or Z. If Dr Jen Veron stopped in here for an ID on a perfect picture of a SPS and someone said it was X, Y or Z, he would say flat out, "you can not ID a Acropora sp by a picture period, especially one that has been in reef tank for some time." He told me once that an Acropora that has been in a reef tank for a long time that he may not be able to ID it at all to species level
Many SPS in this hobby are probably mis-ID, same for plants and many inverts.
Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
FAMA is out an I'm very depressed for Woody/Doni. :tears: :tears:
Woody
The article has two pic's, your algae and a possible "red bunny rabbit algae " eater. Woody your great pic was shrunk to 1 1/2 to 1 1/2 and not clear and crisp.. The Diadema setosum pic is like 5 x 3. The urchin has a photo credit and yours has none I thought he would mention you in the text, nota'. He just more or less copy/paste the first and last e-mails I sent him and left out the middle two e-mials about you and a photo credit.
Me
Those pic are not mine. I was asked to ID the red algae. The girls name is Doni Marie *****. She said it would be great to have here pics in your Reef Notes. You are one of her heroes ;-). She is hoping to meet you at MACNA
Julian
OK I managed to make an interesting Reef Notes with your questions re comb jellies and the red alga. I included two of Doni Marie's photos.
You are the one responsible for all this and there is not even a clue anywhere about you
Don't feel bad he only posted my first e-mail on ctenphores and left out the last two, where I re-ID them to Coeloplana sp after getting a bunch of new info and that they indeed were not Lyrocteis sp and could not be. Makes me look bad
Woody
The article has two pic's, your algae and a possible "red bunny rabbit algae " eater. Woody your great pic was shrunk to 1 1/2 to 1 1/2 and not clear and crisp.. The Diadema setosum pic is like 5 x 3. The urchin has a photo credit and yours has none
I thought he would mention you in the text, nota'. He just more or less copy/paste the first and last e-mails I sent him and left out the middle two e-mials about you and a photo credit. Me
Those pic are not mine. I was asked to ID the red algae. The girls name is Doni Marie *****. She said it would be great to have here pics in your Reef Notes. You are one of her heroes ;-). She is hoping to meet you at MACNA
Julian
OK I managed to make an interesting Reef Notes with your questions re comb jellies and the red alga. I included two of Doni Marie's photos.
You are the one responsible for all this and there is not even a clue anywhere about you
Don't feel bad he only posted my first e-mail on ctenphores and left out the last two, where I re-ID them to Coeloplana sp after getting a bunch of new info and that they indeed were not Lyrocteis sp and could not be. Makes me look bad