Purple Coralline Algae Turning Green

[Zoous]

Is this suppose to happen when your curing live rock in your tank?

 

[herman]

You are just experiencing a natural cycle. An algae bloom is part of it. Keep the skimmer running at max and do frequent waterchanges.

Test your water parameters for the following:
Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates.

First your amonia will be high
Then your nitrites will spike
Finally when your nitrates spike your cycle is complete meaning you remove the nitrates through water changes. Once that level is down you can start stocking your tank SLOWLY! Remember your bacteria have to keep up with the ammonia levels (fish piss & poop) By slowly adding livestock it will enable your bacterial colony to grow and keep up with the cycle!

 

[Zoous]

Hi Herman:


Actually I don't have an algae bloom because my lights are not on. The live rock I got recently had a lot of purple coralline algae on it but now it turned all green. How long will it take before it comes back?

Thanks for the good advice.

 

[Deanos]

Purple coralline algae minus lights equals green coralline algae which becomes dead coralline algae

 

[jiggy]

nah theres such a thing as green coraline.. i have a ton of different colors.. blue, pink, light and dark purple, and green

 

[nanoreefer22]

nah theres such a thing as green coraline.. i have a ton of different colors.. blue, pink, light and dark purple, and green

BLUE?!:tired: ....now this I've gotta see....Might just be me but I've never seen BLUE coralline....green, pink, light and dark purple everyones got...:bigeyes2:

 

[griMReefer]

nah theres such a thing as green coraline.. i have a ton of different colors.. blue, pink, light and dark purple, and green

i am curing rock, 1 batch under lights and 1 batch without lights. the batch under lights has alot of diatoms and green algae covering the purple coralline (not much coralline on the rocks to begin with though), while the batch in the dark like Zoos has gone from purple to pale lavender to pale green to white. yeah theres such thing as green coralline but purple coralline losing colors to appear light green and then white yeah its dead.