“Florida Red tide”

Florida Red Tides

The red color of Florida tides are produced when marine phytoplankton algae accumulate in the water column. Certain species of this kind of algae, more correctly termed phytoplankton, contain photosynthetic pigments that vary in color from green to brown to red, and when the algae are present in high concentrations, the water appears to be colored red.

The term “Florida Red tide” is most often used to describe a phytoplankton algae increase and change the color of the sea to reddish brown hue When the density of these algae increase organisms more then tens of millions of cells per liter of seawater, then the color of the sea water changes to reddish-brown hue.




 
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