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03-05-2008, 10:30 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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|  Coralline growth!!
Woohooo!!!! Just noticed last week that some very small specs of red coralline were starting to show up on the cured base rock I put in there... then today BOOM red coralline popping up everywhere!! Can't wait to get my actinics up and running to give them a big boost!!
Tried to take some pics but they didn't turn out good at all  _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | 
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03-05-2008, 11:06 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: North Carolina Age: 38
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That's awesome! I have lots of purple and some white growing. Just wish it would spread more onto the back glass!
Which reminds me, I need to check my Ca levels... _________ Tank: 75g glass, AquaC Remora, Eheim Ecco Canister filter, Odyssea (2x250W MH, 4x65W actinics, 6 LEDs), 80lbs of live rock
Critters: 2 false percula clowns, blue damsel, lawnmower blenny, squirrel fish, 2 anthias, flame hawkfish, copper banded butterfly, coral banded shrimp, cleaner shrimp, fighting conch, condy anemone, and lots of misc snails
Corals: Green stripe mushrooms, blue mushrooms, candy cane, frogspawn, Green Zoanthids, star polyps, acropora, monipora
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03-05-2008, 11:11 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Nice! That's awesome, how long has your tank been running for? What're you using to dose calcium? reactor, 2 part etc?! | |
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03-05-2008, 08:16 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Originally Posted by sooja  Nice! That's awesome, how long has your tank been running for? What're you using to dose calcium? reactor, 2 part etc?! | My tank has been running since 1/3... so about 8 weeks!! I don't have anything running right now besides my filter and 2 powerheads... no lights. I'm still cycling so I haven't turned a thing on. Looking to turn on actinics here soon to help the growth!! | |
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03-05-2008, 08:59 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chennai, India Age: 38
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Good going! Looks like you are on your way to a good tank! Good luck! _________ 90 gallon Reef tank. LR 176lbs, Two percula Clowns, two Blue Damsels, One Tomato clown, One regal Blue Tang Skimmer, RO, 2X150 MH at 14K, 4powerheads,2 dolphin 2300gph each, 2 canister filters, Undergravel filter http://aquariumwaters.blogspot.com/ | |
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03-05-2008, 11:20 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
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Awesome!!! Now just wait...you just love scrapping it off the front glass ;P. It bent my metal scrapper! _________ 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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03-06-2008, 03:34 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Patience will pay off to a nice healthy tank for you my friend. _________ 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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03-06-2008, 03:40 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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I dont have coralline - and i dont want it, i thinkits ugly. Whenever i see a spec of it forming a dread its spread - luckily my urchin gobbles it right up!! _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | |
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03-15-2008, 09:46 AM
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| | Pajama Cardinal
Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: berwick, PA,Pennsylvania
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its cool that you have your corraline starting  _________ karla  75 gall, 80 lbs sand, 110 lb lr, 10k pcs, atinics, emperor 400, prizm skimmer, hagen and maxi jet powerheads | |
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03-15-2008, 10:02 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Watch the lighting though, I have found that if you change the amount of light or type of light it tends to either bleach the algae (it turns light pink or white) or it kills it ought right.
I went from a 80 watt PC light on my 16 gallon Nano, with which I had great Coraline growth to a 96 watt T5 light and most of the algae bleached. After a little while it started growing back but no where near a nice and fast. I have since gone back to the PC light on that tank and its now growing great.
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