Living where you are in Orange County, you have access to much colder species. I will get a link of my source of ediable Gracilaria Parvispora. Now they also harvest bivales with ediable seaweed for consumption at local restaurants.
Red ogo seaweed maintains its bright red color when fresh, but turns a dark green color when cooked. This seaweed offers a nice salty ocean taste with a crispy...
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“Red ogo seaweed maintains its bright red color when fresh, but turns a dark green color when cooked. This seaweed offers a nice salty ocean taste with a crispy texture. Seaweed is high in potassium, iron, minerals, and calcium.”
Current Facts
“Although red ogo seaweed is safe for human consumption, it is used primarily for aquarium fish food.”
Nutritional Value
“Low in calories, one pound of red ogo seaweed contains about 45 calories. Providing three times the amount of potassium than bananas, red ogo seaweed is a good source of trace minerals. Studies show red ogo seaweed helps increase resistance to stress and fatigue. Mostly all sea vegetables are rich in iron, several minerals, calcium and potassium.”
Geography/History
“This very trendy sea vegetable is making a big splash especially in fine restaurants. Chefs appreciate its seafaring presentation and diners love its unique oceanic flavor. One of the larger red seaweeds in Hawaii and able to grow to sixty centimeters in length, it is believed ogo did not originate in the Hawaiian Islands where it is used in poke, a popular Hawaiian dish. Also known as limu and long ogo and of the species Gracilaria parvispora, ogo produces best where there is very little wind and the waters are calm. Edible red algae is economically important as a food and in the making of gels. Extensive production and natural harvest of red algae occurs in several regions worldwide. Aqua-cultured, ogo is locally grown in Carlsbad, California.”
PS; Gracilaria Parvispora was purchased by me > 20 years ago from IndoPacific SeaFarms: at that time Gerald Hesslinger called it Tang Heaven Red.
Indo-Pacific Sea Farms produces captive-bred marine life for healthier reef aquariums: invertebrates, detritivores, live sand, snail grazers, amphipods, beneficial worms, macro algae, plankton, corals, coral food and beneficial bacteria.
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Tang Heaven Red™
The natural red seaweed diet of Tangs
Yellows, Hippos, Nasos, Blues, Koles, Achilles, etc. as well as many omnivores such as pygmy angels. Why invest in "terrestrial" diets like Romaine lettuce when a superior marine alternative is now available?
Tang Heaven Red is 100% live natural seaweed from the place that made tangs famous - Hawaii's Kona coast. Tested and proven by IPSF for more than ten years as a COMPLETE diet for all of the popular ornamental surgeonfishes. High in natural fibers, which are known to combat, prevent and cure head and lateral line erosion disease. More convenient and economical than nori
(dried seaweed). We achieve TOTAL wild color retention in Hawaiian tangs with the high levels of fresh pigments in Tang Heaven Red. Rich in garlic esters, Tang Heaven Red has superior medicinal properties which must be experienced to be fully appreciated. Shipped alive as moist fronds which you can add directly as food to your main tank, or float it in your sump or refugium as a living filter to remove ammonia, nitrates and phosphates.
Tang Heaven Red live diet, $9.95 for 1/4 lb with any livestock order. When ordered alone: 1/2 lb minimum, $59.95 including Fedex and box; 1 lb, $69.95 including Fedex and box. Order today!
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its a good little light just never tried to grow anything (coral or otherwise) with it
