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	./corallines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Coralline algae growth rate seems to work when applied to the dealer main display tanks in southern cal. Very few of these even support good growths.
		Corallines are growing on the matrix and everywhere else.
		For an interesting factoid, a certain species of coralline algae holds the record for the ability to grow in the lowest light level of all photosynthetic organisms ever recorded.
	www.thekrib.com /Marine/corallines.html (1593 words)

	Algone.com - coralline algae in the marine and reef aquarium
		Coralline algae enter the aquarium in two ways, either they are already attached to the cured live rock, or they have to be seeded.
		In summary the advantages of coralline algae are that it outgrows the nuisance algae.
		It is not the coral that form the reef, it is the coralline algae that cements the particles together thus building the reef.
	www.algone.com /coralline_algae.htm (442 words)

	Algae , an introduction - Botany, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Algae are photosynthetic organisms that occur in most habitats, ranging from marine and freshwater to desert sands and from hot boiling springs to snow and ice.
		Algae are found in the fossil record dating back to approximately 3 billion years in the Precambrian.
		Algae are important as primary producers of organic matter at the base of the food chain.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/algae/AlgIntro.htm (212 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Red Coralline Algae
		The red coralline algae belong to the phylum Rhodophyta.
		The red coralline algae can incorporate calcium carbonate into their cell walls, giving their body a rigid, segmented appearance and texture.
		Most of the red algae have the ability to carry on photosynthesis at much greater depths than other types of algae.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461516567/Red_Coralline_Algae.html (76 words)

	Coralline algae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		However, most red algae on rocky shores are limited to the lower shore turf by their vulnerability to desiccation.
		Algae belonging to the order Corallinales are charaterized by lime deposition, making them harder than any other calcifying plant.
		The thalli of coralline algae consist of inarticulate (inflexible; not jointed) crusts or nodules or of articulated branches.
	biology.fullerton.edu /courses/biol_317/web/Murray/Fall97/coralline_algae.html (1106 words)

	Aquarium Algae
		Green algae are clearly very closely related to plants but the kingdom Protista is paraphyletic and includes a very heterogenous assemblage of unicellular,colonial and multicellular eukaryotes that do not have the destinctive characteristics of the animals,plants or fungi.
		Commonly algae are considered to be all of the photosynthetic organisms growing in water or water films that are not vascular plants.
		Algae is quick to utilize light and carbon dioxide and can thus feed more efficiently on the nutrients present in freshwater than the plants, which take time to establish and root.
	members.aol.com /casey144801/aquarium/algae.htm (2840 words)

	Article
		Another trick that helps spread coralline algae is to scrub the coralline on the glass or a rock just a little with an abrasive aquarium cleaning pad or tooth brush to create coralline dust that can be blown around and settle on the new rocks to grow.
		Coralline would normally be quite obvious and starting to flourish on new concrete rock by the end of two months in a reef tank like this rock has been.
		Coralline growth is still somewhat lacking, even with just a modest number of Mexican red leg blue spot hermit crabs present (C. digueti) which are cleaning the rock of alga, including coralline algae.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6279/RaiseCementRock.html (11164 words)

	Jodi N. Harney
		Algae may be single-celled (like cyanobacteria) or hundreds of feet long (like the kelp forests off California).
		Many types of algae are inhabitants of coral reefs whose abundance are kept in check by grazing fish, molluscs, and other animals.
		Both coralline algae and the calcareous green alga Halimeda are significant producers of sediment in shallow waters around the Hawaiian Islands.
	www.soest.hawaii.edu /GG/STUDENTS/jharney/algae.html (180 words)

	REEF AQUARIUM CORALLINE ALGAE PROPAGATION
		Coralline algae is one of the most important things to grow on tank raised live rocks.
		We have noticed that new coralline algae starts to seed itself in the first month and it usually is found on the bottom base rock where the lighting is not so bright.
		CORALLINE ALGAE is a very important thing to have growing on your combination tank grown live rock.
	www.garf.org /coralline.html (898 words)

	Coralline Lethal Orange Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Given the importance of coralline algae in contributing material to the reef framework, it was particularly disturbing when a disease of coralline algae was discovered by Mark and Diane Littler in 1993 on reefs of the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.
		A "band" of bright orange slimy material spreads across the algal surface, leaving behind the bare skeletal carbonate remains of the coralline algae.
		The orange globules can be experimentally transferred to other coralline algae and cause the same disease and loss of algal tissue.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/mccarty_and_peters/coral/clodpage.htm (221 words)

	Tour - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Living coralline algae have a red thallus surface ("thallus" = plant body), which is caused by the red pigments (therefore, they belong to the Red Algae).
		Coralline algae are one of the most abundant carbonate producers.
		Coralline algae may also form unattached nodules (= rhodoliths) and their branches may form thick sediment accumulations (= maerl).
	www.paleoweb.net /algae/algae/algae_tour/tour2.htm (138 words)

	CorallineAlg
		The encrusting Red Algae of marine aquariums are mainly of the non-jointed calcareous Subfamily Melobesioideae ("Mellow-beas-ee-dfpoy-day-ee"), in the Family Corallinacae (Order Cryptonemiales); they appear as thin crusts or nodular ridges.
		The branched forms of calcareous red algae are mainly members of the Corallinaceae as well; but in a different Subfamily, the Corallinoideae, comprising the jointed (or articulated) corallines.
		Other forms of red algae are more typically soft and string-like or flat sheets in body (thallus) shape and flexible in texture.
	www.wetwebmedia.com /corallinealg.htm (734 words)

	Rob Toonen - Larvae Settlement Cues .... #reefs Article www.reefs.org
		While it is true that the larvae of many coral and mollusc species do respond to the presence of coralline algae as a settlement cue, the implication of GABA in that behavior is still of great debate among larval biologists.
		My thought was that the red coralline algae might indicate to the shrimp larvae that it was over a coral reef and I thought it was worth a try.
		That means that the coralline algae substrate (which would have a bacterial film associated with it) should elicit some small amount of settlement from competent larvae.
	www.reefs.org /library/article/r_toonen5.html (1443 words)

	OZ REEF - How do you encourage coralline algae growth?
		Coralline algae is a calcerous red algae that can come in a variety of different colours and growth forms.
		Since coralline algae is calcerious, as with any other calcifying organism (such as hard corals) it requires similar conditions.
		The required light intensity for coralline algae (as for any other photosynthetic organisms, including corals) depends on the actual species of algae and what it is adapted to grow in.
	ozreef.org /faq/general/encourage_coralline_algae_growth.html (717 words)

	Introduction to coralline algae
		This website is a general introduction to the biology of coralline algae, and includes pointers to the latest family, subfamily and generic delimitations.
		Effects of grazing on crustose coralline algae by Gavin W. Maneveldt and Derek W. Keats.
		Encrusting coralline algae flourish where waves break on the reef, forming an elevated bank known as the algal ridge.
	www.botany.uwc.ac.za /clines (591 words)

	Algae and the Reef, Belize Barrier Reef
		For various reasons, the presence of both unicellular and multicellular algae is critical to the growth and maintenance of the reef ecosystem.
		Coralline algae are plants that contain calcium carbonate in their tissue, made up of masses of fine thread-like filaments that spread out over the reef rock surface.
		Algae is not only important to coral reefs; as a primary producer in the food chain, many fish depend on it as well.
	www.ambergriscaye.com /reefbriefs/briefs19.html (545 words)

	Geological and Paleontological Sites of Brazil - 033 - ROCAS ATOLL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		At this level, there is a flat surface colonized by fleshy and coralline alga, corals and sponges, which extends up to 1 km to the east and south of the atoll.
		Encrusting coralline algae was the most abundant organism found in the core samples, forming more than 60% of the recovered rock.
		This prominent role of coralline algae in the building up of reefs is a common feature of Brazilian reefs, such as seen in Abrolhos and in the northern coast of Bahia.
	www.unb.br /ig/sigep/sitio033/sitio033english.htm (5037 words)

	Introduction to the Rhodophyta
		Red algae are red because of the presence of the pigment phycoerythrin; this pigment reflects red light and absorbs blue light.
		These reef-building rhodophytes are called coralline algae, because they secrete a hard shell of carbonate around themselves, in much the same way that corals do.
		Algae: The Forgotten Treasure of Tidepools is an excellent exhibit at Sonoma State on California tidepool algae, including red algae.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /protista/rhodophyta.html (345 words)

	Hitchhiker FAQ - Algae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		A good article to read for algae control in general is the #reefs talk by Svein Fossa.
		Some coralline algae species are lower light species and will recede under strong MH lighting.
		There are some very odd species of coralline algae that grow in various shapes, some of which form thickets or bulbous pods.
	www.reefs.org /hhfaq/pages/main_pages/faq_algae.htm (1166 words)

	Encrusting coralline algae flourish where waves break on the reef
		Being algae, the plant body in corlallines is referred to as a thallus (pl. thalli).
		Most coralline algae have an internal anatomy of the thallus that is based on the aggregation of branching filaments, each of which is formed through the action of its own single meristematic cell.
		Reproduction in the coralline algae is as kinky as it is in most of the other red algae.
	www.botany.hawaii.edu /faculty/webb/BOT311/Rhodophyta/RhodophytaLecture.htm (1576 words)

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		This coralline sediment is then added to your reef tank so it falls on all of your aquaculture tank raised live rocks.
		CORALLINE ALGAE is a very important thing to have growing on your combination tank grown live rocks.
		We keep the lights on for 14 hours and the Coralline algae grows on every part of the rock that is exposed to the light.
	www.athiel.com /lib5/coralline.htm (834 words)

	Guampedia - Guam's Online Encyclopedia
		Although the calcium carbonate rock-like alga Hydrolithon is normally not considered seaweed, it does belong to the Division Rhodophyta and is included in the total species counts of seaweeds for Guam.
		The crust-like or rock-like coralline algae are most dominant on the reef margin where the breaking high-energy surf occurs.
		The secondary metabolites in such seaweeds as Hormothamnium (blue-green alga) and Portieria (red alga) are noxious and serve as defense mechanisms against the numerous herbivorous fish and invertebrates that inhabit the waters around Guam.
	www.guampedia.com /demo/Sample%20Entry_files/seaweeds/seaweeds.htm (507 words)

	Coral Forum :: View topic - Coralline algae turning white (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		I have red/pinkish coralline algae that is growing over my tank and LR, but on certain areas on the LR it is turning white around the edges and even on the powerheads it has white dots in certain areas.
		There is a noticed trend that the coralline algae does not grow very fast.
		Nothing seems to be eating the coralline, even the snails can't get it off...now that I remember I moved this rock next to a stinging coral variety (cannot remember the name) and it seemed to affect the algae.
	www.coralforum.com /printview.php?t=1170&start=0 (557 words)

	CorlAlgFAQs4
		Coralline algae growth is a function of several factors...do have a read here and among the links in blue: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/corallinealg.htm Eric R.>>
		You can help spread/speed the process by obtaining coralline scrapings from a friend (or a friendly LFS), pureeing these in a blender with some tank water, and pouring the solution in your tank to spread the algae spores.
		Just sounds to me like there is not enough elements in his water that the coralline needs to grow as long as his lighting is putting out the Kelvin temp it is supposed to.
	www.wetwebmedia.com /corlalgfaqs4.htm (2696 words)

	Introduction to coralline algae
		The red algae belong to the division Rhodophyta, within which the coralline algae form a distinct, exclusively marine order, the Corallinales.
		Coralline algae are widespread in all of the world's oceans, where they often cover close to 100% of rocky substrata.
		Crustose coralline algae often cover close to 100% of the substratum.
	www.botany.uwc.ac.za /clines/intro.htm (212 words)

	Monterey Bay Aquarium: Online Field Guide - Red coralline alga
		Since these algae deposit calcium carbonate (limestone) in most of their cell walls, red corallines have the appearance and rough texture of coral.
		For instance, red articulated corallines growing in intertidal zones are vulnerable to trampling and other damage, so it’s important to tread carefully when you visit tide pools.
		In coral reefs, a tropical genus of crustose coralline, Porolithon is an important cementing and bonding agent.
	www.mbayaq.org /efc/living_species/print.asp?inhab=204 (310 words)

	Articulated Coralline Algae
		The articulated corallines constitute a diverse group of branched, calcified red algae.
		However, some of these algae can grow as epiphytes, growing on the shells of benthic marine organisms or other algae.
		Corallines often grow bunched together in clusters but some species are distributed more sparsely.
	www.mbari.org /staff/conn/botany/reds/ian/default.htm (285 words)

	Basic Information for Corallina officinalis and coralline crusts in shallow eulittoral rockpools. (LR.Cor)
		Corallina officinalis and coralline crusts in shallow eulittoral rockpools.
		Shallow rockpools throughout the eulittoral zone may be characterized by a covering of encrusting coralline algae on which Corallina officinalis often forms a dense turf.
		Similar sized pools in the littoral fringe generally lack the encrusting coralline algae and are characterized by green algae (see LR.G).
	www.marlin.ac.uk /biotopes/Bio_BasicInfo_LR.Cor.htm (403 words)

	Coraline algae primer
		Coralline algae is surprisingly easy to grow, and if taken good care of, can grow relatively fast in FOWLR tanks (fish only with live rock).
		Seeding your tank with a variety of coralline algae species will allow you to introduce a species of coralline to your tank that may be better suited for your lighting and water chemistry.
		Second, if you do have some coralline algae, try taking a new, washed, firm toothbrush, and gently scrape the algae until a light dusting of it come off.
	www.livingreefs.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-1949.html (664 words)

	Reeftank.com - Coralline algae-how do i get it
		Coralline doesn't take that much light to get growing, so even if you only have NO fluorescents, you should be fine.
		Coralline also grows the best under less intense lighting, and if it is under metal halides i have noticed it grows the best under 14,000k to 20,000k bulbs.
		I got coralline algae growing like crazy in my pico and nano when they were less then a month old!
	www.reeftank.com /forums/showthread.php?t=303 (486 words)

	CaribSea Purple Up Coralline Algae Accelerator 16oz (Saltwater Aquarium Supplies > Additives > Specialty > Liverock/ ...
		Iodine Replenishment: PurpleUp replenishes iodine, an essential element for coralline algae tissues that quickly becomes depleted in closed systems.
		One bottle of Purple Up replaces the typical multi-product recipe for successful coralline algae growth favored by advanced aquarists.
		Coralline algae grows and looks so healthy "it shines".
	www.marinedepot.com /md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=CS0530 (667 words)

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