Coraline algae....Frags?

[nycfatcow]

can anyone afford to give me some coraline algae scrapings or rocks with coraline??? Any body have frags that they dont want? thanks

 

[Kedd]

All you want, but it's a long drive for coraline alge.
I'm sure you'll find someone closer.
LMK if you don't.

Kedd

 

[DEEPWATER]

I have that rock with a feather duster on it ,for 15 bux if you like ,

 

[nycfatcow]

sorry deep not interesteddd.....would it make sense to ship it kedd?

 

[Deanos]

nycfatcow, how many lbs. of LR do you have?

 

[nycfatcow]

hmmm i say...30lbs base.....40 lr?

 

[jhale]

I wish you posted last week.

I scrape the back glass every month, that was last week.

 

[Dace]

I wish you posted last week.

I scrape the back glass every month, that was last week.

me too. when i switched to BB i had it by the bunch

 

[nycfatcow]

...omg.... im gonna cry!!!

 

[Deanos]

40 lbs of live rock and not one square cm of coralline?!

Anyway, I'm not so sure scrapings in the answer. I gave some fresh scrapings to Deepwater at the fragswap and he's still struggling to maintain patches. He has adequate lighting and a calcium reactor. His corals and fish seem healthy and happy, but yet, no coralline. My 10g has 3 walls completely covered by pink coralline and I've never dosed a supplement in that tank. Heck, I hardly do water changes anymore.

Good luck though.

 

[nycfatcow]

wow gee deanos...thanks for making me feel bad....waht should i do..?

 

[Deanos]

Sorry about that! Not my intent.

My point is that I don't know the secret to coralline growth. I always thought as long as ALK and calcium were are proper levels and coralline was present, it would jump off! Yet I've seen tanks with calcium reactors barren of the purple stuff. Then Kris' nano which is only a few weeks old, has spots all over the place.

 

[nycfatcow]

yeh wahts up with that...my tank has a lot of brown and green algae though.. my glass has purp on it but i odnt kno if its coraline...

 

[noodleman]

i find that the rocks and glass closest to the actinics grow purple better. In my brighter areas i get green coralline

 

[nycfatcow]

ahh i dont even know any mroe... i give up im just gonna stop trying

 

[jhale]

for some reason it won't grow on my rocks at all,
it grows on the glass, and has covered the marina board and any other
plastic thing in the tank, it's a mystery to me?
my algae magnet is totaly pink, lol.

 

[noodleman]

thats the way to go...don't worry about geting coralline, just fill it up with corals and you wont notice a thing

 

[romain]

Did you test the phosphate level of your tank?

 

[nycfatcow]

<sigh> stupid coraline algae...looks so good but i cant get any...

 

[noodleman]

i don't have much either...thats why my tank it jsut full of corals