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Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why?

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Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Empty Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why?

Post  liquidg 4th July 2013, 11:07 am

These photos are close ups of two highly efficient importers of nutrients and naturally forming marine toxins.
They look at the content with in the flesh of these importers by comparing the generally used taxifolia to our local form of racemosa laetevirens.
This is the original morph of the laetevirens and as you can see there is a difference in flesh content! From more flesh thickness comes more absorption onto more conversion of nutrients.

Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Another-racemosa-_zpsfc186933

This photo compares the two side by side and as you can see the size of the racemosa flesh is much larger and to some degree hollow to allow more importation.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Racemosa-and-taxi-_zps7288b5f7

Just the stems to compare.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Racemosa-and-taxi-stems-_zpsed42bb1e

Taxifolia stem crushed.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Taxi-stem-crushed-_zps747bede7

Racemosa stem crushed.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Racemosa-stem-crushed--2-_zps57f6a6c6

The taxifolia form crushed.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Taxi-crushed-_zps3cb04e01

The racemosa form crushed.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Racemosa-form-crushed-_zpsd7c5d1fd

These photos show the thickness of the each caulerpa, firstly the racemosa.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Racemosa-thickness-_zpse54b4743

The thickness of taxifolia.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Taxi-thickness-_zps555d31ac

A popular form of multi-celled algae called chaetomorpha.

It is shown in these two pics as firstly a single strand of this algae and secondly the content of it showing that it has quite a lot of content meaning it is a good importer due to its storage capacity of nutrients and subsequent rate if conversion of nutrients. It should be remembered that chaeto works best on nitrates once imported due to its extreme amount of cyano bacteria symbiotic with in.
Intact chaeto.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Chaeto-1-_zpsa200dc7a

Crushed chaeto.
Caulerpa and chaeto for importing of nutrients, which one is best and why? Chaeto-2-_zps19c001db
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