{"id":245,"date":"2021-07-10T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2021-07-10T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T15:36:21","slug":"halymenia-floridana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Halymenia floridana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An interesting species of Halymenia<\/em> that’s highly variable in color, ranging from bright yellow to red depending on the depth collected. Like all species of Halymenia<\/em>, it’s gelatinous, slippery and smooth in texture and has no shape out of water. It’s thin fronds are very delicate and can break apart and tear when handled or subjected to high flow. This particular species stays rather compact and it’s blades are rounded and irregular similar to species of Ulva. Most Halymenia<\/em> species grow in rather deep locations so do not require as much light as some other algae. Specimens are encountered either free floating or attached to rocks and protected ledges by a single holdfast. In the aquarium, it will seldom attach to anything on it’s own, so it must be anchored manually or allowed to tumble as a free floating specimen. H. floridana<\/em> is very palatable and is readily eaten by both tangs, angels and herbivores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

Maximum Height : 18″<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Temperature: 76-82<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Difficulty: Easy<\/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":"

An interesting species of Halymenia that’s highly variable in color, ranging from bright yellow to red depending on the depth collected. Like all species of Halymenia, it’s gelatinous, slippery and smooth in texture and has no shape out of water. It’s thin fronds are very delicate and can break apart and tear when handled or … Continue reading “Halymenia floridana”<\/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-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halymenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}