Mosses, floating plants, and macroalgae
Dictyota algae
Dictyota dichotoma
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Key facts
- Temperature14–28 °C
- pH8–8.4
- Adult size20 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
Full profile
- Family
- Dictyotaceae
- Origin
- Cosmopolitan
- Size
- 5 – 20 cm
- Temperature
- 14 – 28°C
- pH
- 8.0 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.028
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Water type
- marine
- Light
- any
- Fertilization
- Feeds on excess nutrients
- Growth
- fast
- Position
- on the rock (pest)
- Propagation
- fragmentation
Notes: A Y-shaped, branched brown algae that can become a pest in marine aquariums. Few herbivores eat it.
