{"id":241,"date":"2021-07-10T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2021-07-10T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T15:36:34","slug":"halymenia-floresia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Halymenia floresia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This species features attractive, flattened, flame shaped appendages with a coloration ranging from pink to dark red. Like all species of Halymenia<\/em>, it’s very thin, gelatinous and smooth in texture and loses it’s form when removed from the water. It’s delicate and can break apart and tear easily when handled or subjected to high flow. It’s sometimes encountered as free floating specimens in seaweed mats, but it naturally grows attached to hard bottom in depths of up to 60ft or so. Single plants can grow very large and reach heights of almost 20″ or more. H. floresia <\/em>requires a large amount of nutrients to keep successfully in the aquarium and moderate to high flow to maintain its slippery, fleshy blades. In the aquarium it will seldom attach to anything so specimens can be anchored or allowed to tumble free floating. It’s very palatable and is readily eaten by both tangs, angels and other herbivores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientific Name: Halymenia floresia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common Name: Red Sea Lettuce, Dragons Tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origin: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Tropical Atlantic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depth Collected: 20-130 feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum Height: 20″<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth Rate: Slow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light: Moderate to Low<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperature: 78-84<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Propagation: Fragmentation, sporulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Difficulty: Moderate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food Value: Very palatable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutrient Uptake: Good<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flow Rate: Moderate to High<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This species features attractive, flattened, flame shaped appendages with a coloration ranging from pink to dark red. Like all species of Halymenia, it’s very thin, gelatinous and smooth in texture and loses it’s form when removed from the water. It’s delicate and can break apart and tear easily when handled or subjected to high flow. … Continue reading “Halymenia floresia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halymenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}