{"id":260,"date":"2021-07-10T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2021-07-10T16:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T16:02:36","slug":"hydrolithon-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Hydrolithon sp."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hydro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hydro2.jpg 293w, https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hydro2-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 85vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The species <em>Hydrolithon<\/em> is a calcareous encrusting algae that forms an irregular, knobby shaped crust on shallow rocks and coral reefs. Like many encrusting algae, they play an important role in building reef structures by cementing dead coral tissue and fragments together. Individual species of <em>Hydrolithon<\/em> come in many different shades of a red, pink and deep purple. It&#8217;s abundant on both the reef and near shore habitats in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Some species grow in very shallow water among the edge of seagrass beds in the Caribbean where they form large colonies of individual specimens. It does well in aquariums with good amounts of calcium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hydro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hydro1.jpg 292w, https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hydro1-156x300.jpg 156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 85vw, 292px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientific Name: <em>Hydrolithon sp.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Common Name: Corraline Algae<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Origin: Caribbean, S. Pacific, Gulf of Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depth Collected: 1-60 feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maximum Height: 6&#8243;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growth Rate: Slow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Light: Moderate to High<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Temperature: 72-82<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Propagation: Sporulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Difficulty: Moderate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food Value: Not Palatable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nutrient Uptake: None<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flow Rate: Moderate to High<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The species Hydrolithon is a calcareous encrusting algae that forms an irregular, knobby shaped crust on shallow rocks and coral reefs. Like many encrusting algae, they play an important role in building reef structures by cementing dead coral tissue and fragments together. Individual species of Hydrolithon come in many different shades of a red, pink &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hydrolithon sp.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coralline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}