shiny orange red sea grass ID

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I have redish orange sea grass but dunno what is it~

Special that it has orange dot on the leaves and it is quite sharp and "shine" under UV.

Anyone know what is it? rare?

Thx!

[Christopher Marks]

Welcome to the community @hahahaha 👋

 

That is a beautiful macro algae, hopefully someone will know!

[Thrassian Atoll]

I don’t know much about Macroalgae but I would guess dragons breath.  One of the more desirable types.

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8 hours ago, Christopher Marks said:

Welcome to the community @hahahaha 👋

 

That is a beautiful macro algae, hopefully someone will know!

Hi Christopher, 

 

Yes, it is beautiful! It is inside my tank in Hong Kong and I discovered it 4 months ago~

I am not sure it is from Asia sea only or the algae has golden orange dot disease XD

Seems that it is rare for fish tank as I asked several shops but they don't see it before. Hopefully ID. 

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8 hours ago, TILTON said:

I don’t know much about Macroalgae but I would guess dragons breath.  One of the more desirable types.

Thanks and Yes, I think it is a type of dragons breath but not sure the "function" of the orange dot that cannot be found on common dragons breath😄

[yoshii]

It's a type of Halymenia, aka a type of Dragon's Breathe just as others have commented. A very nice piece!

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13 minutes ago, yoshii said:

It's a type of Halymenia, aka a type of Dragon's Breathe just as others have commented. A very nice piece!

Thanks Yoshii! Yes, I search Halymenia and some of the photos show the similar dot pattern on the leaves like photo Ruffled halymenia but not shiny orange.

Excited to know the function of the golden orange dot^^