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12-10-2006, 12:25 PM
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| | Plankton
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Originally Posted by coral reefer  Do you have or plan on keeping corals? If so, you should focus your attention on keeping your corals healthy and not focus so much attention on coralline algae. The coralline algae will come in time.
I have coralline algae growing in both my tanks and I am running metal halides in both. In my 75 gallon tank I also have coralline algae under 5watts per gallon of power compact lighting-50/50 bulbs!!!!
Just keep the calcium and strontium level up and water flow as I mentioned above.
Reef1, the lighting fixture you are talking about should be sufficient in establishing coralline algae with the other variables being met! | Thanks! | 
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12-10-2006, 04:18 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
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Originally Posted by reef1 low light how low could i go? could i just turn on the blue actinic lighting and how many hours? and not turn on the daylight! just to have a good coralline growth! im not going to have any corals just live rocks!! | When I start a tank and I want to encourage coralline growth, I run the actinics only for about 14-16 hours a day.
I also seed the tank with coralline scrapings from a mature tank and leave the skimmer off for the first month or so. | |
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12-10-2006, 04:20 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
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Originally Posted by Otty Tattoo new-be on my forehead. |  OK but be warned. I have terrible handwriting  | |
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12-10-2006, 07:13 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Plankton
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Originally Posted by amcarrig When I start a tank and I want to encourage coralline growth, I run the actinics only for about 14-16 hours a day.
I also seed the tank with coralline scrapings from a mature tank and leave the skimmer off for the first month or so. | ill do the same and just leave the actinics only but how many days for 14 to 16 hours and then used both day and actinic | |
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12-11-2006, 05:27 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
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Well, if you're not going to have corals, I don't see the need for daylights But, they do make the tank look better so if you've got them, you might as well use them. I usually run blue actinics only until I'm ready to add corals so anywhere from 2-3 months. | |
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12-14-2006, 09:12 AM
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| | Giant Squid
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On my Liverock curing tubs, yes I use tubs instead of tanks for curing liverock. I run TRUE 420nm actinic fluorescent bulbs, 2x40w 24/7. I dose with purple up every other day. I normally would start with one piece from my show tank thats totally covered with Coraline, then place it with a bunch of dead rock and in about 2-3 months, all of the deadrock is live rock with good growth. Oh yeah, I also dose/feed the rock Spectra-Vital. Liverock will not live without food. You can really make your liverock come alive when you feed it.
Hope this helps you. | 
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12-26-2006, 12:32 AM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
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is is alright to protien skim while you using purple up or will it be taken out of the water
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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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12-26-2006, 03:35 AM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by hitman35 is is alright to protien skim while you using purple up or will it be taken out of the water | I have been using PurpleUp and not turning my skimmer off and my coralline is spreading like wildfire.  That doesn't mean that it is the right thing to do but it is working for me. _________ 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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12-26-2006, 10:03 AM
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#19 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
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I tend to leave the skimmer off for the first 2 months of cycling. | |
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12-26-2006, 03:20 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
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Of course, there is the other side of the coin. 
I can't stop the coralline. It is running amok and taking over my tanks, including the acrylic. Coralline on rock is good, but getting coralline off acrylic is a PITA. I'm now spending a couple hours a week scraping away to try and reclaim my tanks. Major sections of the 300 are tough to get to. :mad:
Be careful what you ask for.  
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