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Hi Bros!

Anyone knows where can i buy turtle weed? and are they are to keep? I am just planning to have some turtle weed in my tank with fish and rocks. Possible without chiller?

Hope some reefers here will be able to advise. Thanks!!post-23835-0-59071600-1411395375_thumb.j

Just have to keep reefing... cant stop now~!



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once a while i saw it in ah beng shop, u can give a call and try your luck

i hv seen at ah beng last week small to big size..

Ok Thanks guys~!! :thumbsup:

Just have to keep reefing... cant stop now~!



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I have read that turtle weed aka maiden hair requires a certain level of care to keep this algae.

Would not recommend for newbies. Usually either it thrives or dies in your tank. Here is a link for more info.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1113845

Ironically, you can find turtle weed growing on our local beaches as well.

Sometimes the good guys gotta do bad things to make the bad guys pay. - Harvey Specter

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It's usually an easy plant, if u have chiller and enough light. My yellow tang leaves it alone. Only turtles and a specie of goby eat it. It spreads fast.

Wow I must have been very suay.. One day put in the next day all eaten up... Maybe I should try again

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Its not an easy algae.

Please do not mix turtleweed and hair algae, they are different. Hair algae propagates, Turtleweed very slowly if they dun wither.

Turtleweed shimmer in tank nicer than hair algae, i.e smooth in the flow.

Advise not to waste money.

Equipment:

30G Corner Tank with 10G Sump, 2 x 24W artinic T5, 1 x 24W 10K, 1x 24W 20K, 3" Grade 0 sand & Live rocks, Activated Carbon, Bio-home, 2 x Seio M620, Hailea 1/2HP Chiller, Redsea Pro Skimmer

Live Stock:

Turbo Snail x 1, Green Mandarin Dragonet X 2, Blue Tang X 2, True percular x 2, 1 x Algae Bleenie, Clarke clown x 2

Reef:

1 x 2" Blue maxima, Red/Brown/Purple Mushroom (Discosoma), Pink Ricordea yuma, A little colony Brown/Green common Zoanthus, Red/Pink/Green US Zoanthus, Eagle-eye Zoathus, 14 Branch Goniopora Pandoraensis, 1 Starburst Polyps, 3 + 2 Branch Frogspawn, 4 Blasto, palythoa, Cheato

RIPs (Since June 2005):

1. Sabae clown (KO by Clarke clown) 2. 1 branch melted frogspawn 4 branch 3. Golden maxima (Ripe the base off rock by me) 4. Algae Bleenie x 2 (Starvation) 5. Blue Maxima x 1, 2 x Maxima, 1 x frogspawn, rics (Overtemp...)

Old 30G Corner Tank.

Restarted 30G Corner Tank.

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Turtle weed 'frag' collected by aficionado.

Zzzzzzz.... lesson learnt, always follow your own post regularly~!!! :blink: :blink: :blink:

Hey bro chriscoral, please please can i have some? :heh: :heh: :heh:

Just have to keep reefing... cant stop now~!



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