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06-13-2008, 12:49 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fairfax, VA
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|  Rock coloring
Why does some rock appear much much darker, say a deep driftwood brown. My rock is almost white. It's live but i'm not sure from where. I have two large fiji boulders and they're all sorts of colorful. Does rock get any extra color as it ages in the tank environment? _________ Supposably Is a word in the American language that is often wrongly confused with the word 'supposedly'. 'Supposably' can be used only when the meaning is 'capable of being supposed,'"She was supposably going out to the windswept steppes with her friends, but she's really cheating on me."  | 
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06-13-2008, 02:16 AM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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you can have all different colors at 1st.sometimes it will turn green or brown before purple or pink,but eventually most if not all will become pink or purple.
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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06-13-2008, 10:43 AM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Chester, Pa Age: 23
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it depends on what was on it in the ocean. For example, my rock has a lot of white because it used to have coraline algae on it, but it had died at some point. It now has some small specks of purple, which i hope is coraline, and lots of green from algae. The actual color of my rock is a greyish sort of color. I really think it depends not only on the area taken from, but also what is is made of.
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Equipment: 55 gal, Remora Skimmer w/ maxi jet 1200 pump, 4x54w T5 lighting, 2 super actinics, 2 12,000K actinic white bulbs, 55+ lbs fiji live rock...
Inhabitants: Ocellaris Clownfish, Yellow Tailed Damsel, Six Line Wrasse, Yellow Watchman Goby, 3 Chromis, Crocea Clam, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
Corals: Zoas, Yellow Fiji Leather, Pineapple Brain, Frogspawn, Pearl Bubble, Blastomussa Merleti, Monti, GSP, Green Psammacora | 
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06-13-2008, 12:23 PM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Buffalo N.Y. Age: 24
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i have a rock that i bought from a coral tank just for the coraline on it. it has lime green,dark red,purple,pink,and some purple coraline the grew up off the rock in branching form(for got what this is called) anyways it was cool still is. except it kinda got some brown algae on it,and some bleaching on it, from my old tank, but its slowly coming back in the new tank.
coraline comes in many shapes and colors . and you can distinguish it from a sponge or bad algae by rubbing it. coraline is like rock hard.
the brown is just diatoms or just aged color. white is old dead coraline that bleached out, or also the start of new coraline | |
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06-13-2008, 03:55 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fairfax, VA
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sweet, that sounds like the two large fiji's I got. I really hope that starts to spread out in the next few months. Thanks for all the input. | |
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