Coralline Growth

[kydsexy]

High phosphorous levels in the aquarium. Everything else fine. Will my coralline grow? and how should I arrange the coralline found on my liverock to grow against the walls. In all honesty, I don't even care if the front of the glass is covered as long as it grows. Switched to distilled water today for water changes, how do i get rid of the phosphorous? Will time heal my wounds?

 

[trido]

Do you mean phosphates? In the long run an RO/DI filter will pay for itself and then you can be pretty sure that you arent adding PO4 to the tank. Alot of fish food has small amount of phosphates as well so make sure you arent overfeeding. Xenia, as you mentioned having some, consumes small amount of PO4 and some people grow Xenia in their fuges just for that reason. Careful feeding and waterchanges will lower your levels.

 

[trido]

Oh, and if your Ca., Alk. levels are good the coraline will grow. Just keep up on WCs and everything will happen in good time.

 

[returnofsid]

You can't really arrange your rock in any way to increase coraline growth on the glass. It takes time for your tank to mature to that level. Keep your Ca and Alk levels up, as well as balanced and as long as you have coraline in your tank, you'll soon have it on your glass as well. We all get impatient for it to grow on our glass...and then eventually we're cussing at it as we constantly razor it off the front glass...lol.