Coralline/Coralline-like Species

Critter Spotlight: Amphiroa kuetzingiana

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An encrusting calcareous alga, sometimes thinly branched, appears in a variety of colors, e.g., pink, green, purple, white, yellow, maroon and brown. Most require turbulent water movement, low to medium light intensity of a broad spectrum, calcium level near or above 400 mg/l, maximum magnesium levels (related to salinity level), alkalinity above 3 meq/l and small additions of iodine as iodide. The following include some that can show up in the aquariums.

Amphiroa

• Amphiroa cryptarthrodia
• Amphiroa fragilissima
• Amphiroa kuetzingiana

Corallina

• Corallina elonata (Coral Weed)
• Corallina officinalis (Common Coral Weed)

Hydrolithon

• Hydrolithon boergesenii

Jania

• Jania rubens

Lithophyllum

• Lithophyllum incrustans (Pink Paint Algae)
• Lithophyllum lichenoides (Stone Weed)

Mesophyllum

• Mesophyllum mesomorphum
• Mesophyllum sp.

Peyssonnelia

• Peyssonnelia sp.