Caulerpa Sertularioides

Caulerpa Sertularioides Marine Macroalgae

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The blade colour of the Caulerpa Sertularioides macroalgae varies from darker to lighter green shades, but normally it is more a lighter colour as shown in the picture.

Light
The Caulerpa Sertularioides macroalgae grows opposite to the Caulerpa Taxifolia more in shallow sandy areas, protected between mangroves areas or shallow reefs and does not like very strong lighting.

Palatable
Caulerpa Sertularioides is more palatable than Caulerpa Taxifolia and therefore we recommend it as an additional natural food source for herbivore fishes. We recommend keeping it in a safe place until you like to offer it as additional food to your fishes.

Attaching
The commonly called Fire Fern or feather fern macroalgae will easily attach itself, but it can be to start with as well glued ( we use thick cyanoacrylate super glue ) to rock where you like to have it.  It will attach itself with Rhizoids to rock or into the substrate and as it is a fast-growing macroalgae species it can easily overgrow the rockwork when not kept restrained.

Treatment
Like for most marine macroalgae a higher level of nitrate and phosphate, in addition to the supplement of Iron, Magnesium and Trace elements will improve the growth of this live algae.

If the macroalgae is not growing as expected a special formulated fertiliser for the marine aquarium can help to improve the growth of the macroalgae. Please find a selection of supplements for the marine aquarium HERE   

Other
This is a very rare available live algae species, and we are happy to offer it to you. It is so a much more fragile macroalgae species than for example Caulerpa Taxifolia, and we recommend to split it more often,l as it might suddenly die off, and so you will keep the species more healthy.

Please note
Our macroalgae are from fish free macro algae tanks, although we use sometimes pictures for demonstration purposes only which will include fishes, seahorses and or corals. 
We do our best to quarantine, treat and remove any unwanted hitchhikers, parasites etc from our macro algae but we can not guarantee that the algae are completely free of anything unwanted, not limited to Copepods, Rotifers etc. This is simply because that sometimes eggs, spores, etc can remain viable but not visible and hitchhikers can still stay hidden, especially in dense algae structures, despite our strict quarantine efforts.