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12-29-2006, 05:42 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: oakley,ca Age: 26
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|  coralline
I have been using purple uo for about 3 weeks now anyone know why I am not getting loads of coralline growing what could hinder it growing
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as of 6/27/07
tank: 55gal, coralife super skimmer , odyssea 260w 48" compact light, Fluval 304 canister filter, power head, 50 lbs live rock
Fish: yellow tang, 2 false percula clown fish,dragon goby, 20 red legged crabs,9 blue legged crabs, 2 yellow tip damsels,7 nassarious snails,5 zebra snails,3 bumble bee snails,2 astraea cones,3 cerith snails. | 
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12-29-2006, 05:58 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
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Well. From what I have come to understand about Coraline Algae...When your tank is ready it will grow like crazy. Simply put...dont expect much from using product that state that they will make coraline algae grow. Dont worry. My tank did have coraline growth for a long time, then one day it just went crazy. My scapper cant even get it off somtimes...i have to use a razor. _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
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12-29-2006, 06:04 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by hitman35  I have been using purple uo for about 3 weeks now anyone know why I am not getting loads of coralline growing what could hinder it growing | You need a piece of coralline already extablished on some of your live rock for it to take off good. How long are you leaving your Actinic lights on for??? _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | 
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12-29-2006, 06:09 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: oakley,ca Age: 26
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well unfortunatley I dont have the option if leaing my actinic on without daytime light but about 10 hours. Also my live rock I have bought has corraline on it already | |
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12-29-2006, 06:32 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by hitman35 well unfortunatley I dont have the option if leaing my actinic on without daytime light but about 10 hours. Also my live rock I have bought has corraline on it already | I know it's hard to do but Matt puts it in his signature..."Go Slow and Let it Grow" Couldn't be said any better!! I only dose 1/2 cap for my 55 of PurpleUp and the stuff is going crazy. I actually skip some nights and may stop dosing all together. | |
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12-29-2006, 06:36 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: oakley,ca Age: 26
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i fured it just take ssome maturing of my tank for it to start | |
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12-30-2006, 06:10 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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When all the parameters are good it will blossom. | |
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12-30-2006, 06:40 AM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Va Beach, Va
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HI,
I had a few pieces of Dead rock in my tank, large lava rock and cleaned FIJI rock and took my tweezers and pulled off a tiny piece of Coraline and rubbed it on the Lava rock pushed it into the surface of the rock and over night a purple spot appeared, tried this on the top of a couple other rocks and it also started to grow.
If your in the mood for more just pull off a tiny piece and transplant it, I ve read it need strotium (SP) to grow so water conditions may be important and not to much of that green algae.
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12-30-2006, 08:14 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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I set up a 180 gal tank about the end of August and I used ll dead base rock and sand and I seeded it with coralline scrapping from another tank we have. I got the water parameters up and steady Ca 450 to 500 DKH 12 and Mag at 1400ppm and I added a single yellow tail Damsel to cycle with and I run the VHO actanics 17 hrs aday and a Old 48 inch strip light with a actinic white bulb since mid October for 8 hrs aday. I just started the skimmer in the first part of November..
I never tested anything except the above elements and There is coralline starting to take off now so in the next few weeks I'll finish the M.H's and start to think about corals . Its going to take months rather then weeks for coralline growth.. I have always set my tanks up like described above and i have never had a problem tank ..
In all the yrs I have been in this hobby I find the most needed element to be applied and the single least one to be used is Patcience..And in the last 15 or so yrs since the advent of L/Rock and sand the Patient additive is really lacking ..
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