Coraline Algae

[Beautemp]

[kuza]

Try this hope it can help you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua6arXuk ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep6LKtDG ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaUYYfqGULo

[Beautemp]

Thank you both!

[khuran]

[Menthol]

[Beautemp]

[khuran]

[Menthol]

@Beautemp - yes you need to have a SEED, but it is almost impossible not to have any if you are going to use live rocks or plan to stock your tank with stony corals. what works best for me was to "toothbrush" the coralline crust that you already have in your tank or crush a loose scale of it with your fingers. The idea is to spread as much spores in the water column so it can seed itself in other areas of your tank. 6500K spectrum makes coralline grow crazy in my experience.

@khuran - ZERO PO4 and no less than 7.5 PH.

[Flexi2009]

coraline is the light pink colored thingies?

the only place i see them that grew naturally inside the tank is in my wavemaker

[khuran]

[Menthol]

Sorry but i made a mistake on my post saying 6500K, what i meant was 7200K or actinic lighting, hehe.

You might be right Jourdy, i was just talking through experience that coralline does not prosper even with low levels of PO4, i mean, they are THERE but not growing a whole lot even if there is minimal nuissance algae growth.

My coralline growth has red, purple and a bit of white. No green that i can notice though.the only thing that i dont like that much is that it grows on my sand as well. coralline grows under overhangs and caves in my rockwork too, and that recieves little to no light.

Oh and corals do LOVE coralline to grow out and crawl onto....

[Beautemp]

[Beautemp]