{"id":409,"date":"2021-07-10T20:57:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2021-07-10T20:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T20:57:59","slug":"ulva-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Ulva sp."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ulva<\/em> is common worldwide in a wide variety of species and locations. It lives in both temperate and tropical waters seasonally and prefers water temps of 60-78 degrees. Most are composed of smooth, ruffled disks attached to rocks, shells or hard bottom by a single holdfast. Other forms include strips or tubes protruding from the center of the plant.\u00a0 A fast grower, it’s use is nearly as popular in the refugium as Chaetomorpha<\/em>. Not only does it efficiently remove excess nutrients from the aquarium, but it is very palatable to a number of fish and invertebrates. Ulva<\/em> is also an excellent macro algae for culturing both copepods and amphipods in the aquarium. Although it will attach, typically Ulva is tumbled or allowed to simply float in a refugium. It can be problematic in a refugium if the return pump is not protected, as it can clog up plumbing systems. Very palatable to fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientific Name: Ulva sp.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Origin: Worldwide Distribution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depth Collected: 1-8 Feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum Height : 8″ mound<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Temperature: 60-78<\/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: Excellent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flow Rate: Moderate\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ulva is common worldwide in a wide variety of species and locations. It lives in both temperate and tropical waters seasonally and prefers water temps of 60-78 degrees. Most are composed of smooth, ruffled disks attached to rocks, shells or hard bottom by a single holdfast. Other forms include strips or tubes protruding from the … Continue reading “Ulva sp.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-macroalgae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}