azocean709
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I have a 55 gallon, w/30 gallon fuge. w/ 15 lbs of LR and a 4 inch DSB. there is about 20lbs of LR with little splotches of growth, and 30 lbs of rock covered in at least 5 differant colors, It has been up and running for quite some time and i see no spreading, none on the glass, powerheads, Its not spreading to the live rock with minimal growth on it , Im kinda at a wonder here. I see tanks on here all the time with the glass and everything else totally covered to the point of having to constantly scrape it. Im running 2 , 175 watt ushio mogal MH, and 2 80 watt actinics, and 110 watt VHO over the fuge, I tested water yesterday using seachem and salifert drop tests, they are :
PH. 8.2
alk. 4 meg/L
calcium 430
mag. 1320
strontium. 10
trates 0
amm. 0
phos. .05
iodine, 4
everything seems to be in order with water quality, water is crystal clear also,
my lights , actinics come on 2 hours before the MH which they are on for 6 hours, then 2 more hours with the actinics.
Livestock include,
1 tomato clown
1 rose bubble tip anemone,
2 firefish,
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
1 camelback
1 brittle star
10 nassarius snails
15 turbo snails
20 blue leg hermits
5 red leg hermits
1 orange knuckle hermit,
1 orange linkia star,
CORALS,
big green leather finger,
purple shrooms
green zoos
brown zoos,
yellow gargonia
yellow polyps,
frogspawn,
green long tentical plate
bubble coral.
This tank has been up for almost 8 months.
Everything is doing good, Ive never had any problems with anything. Im just curious why my coraline isn't growing, or maybe a time frame of how long it takes to start to spread. 6 months, a year, two yrs? I don't know... I also have 4 power heads, 2 300 gph for flow, and 2 145 gph and a spraybar to agitate the top of the water, all together with pump in the fuge and all that i have a 22X turn over. any ideas would be helpful...thanks.
PH. 8.2
alk. 4 meg/L
calcium 430
mag. 1320
strontium. 10
trates 0
amm. 0
phos. .05
iodine, 4
everything seems to be in order with water quality, water is crystal clear also,
my lights , actinics come on 2 hours before the MH which they are on for 6 hours, then 2 more hours with the actinics.
Livestock include,
1 tomato clown
1 rose bubble tip anemone,
2 firefish,
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
1 camelback
1 brittle star
10 nassarius snails
15 turbo snails
20 blue leg hermits
5 red leg hermits
1 orange knuckle hermit,
1 orange linkia star,
CORALS,
big green leather finger,
purple shrooms
green zoos
brown zoos,
yellow gargonia
yellow polyps,
frogspawn,
green long tentical plate
bubble coral.
This tank has been up for almost 8 months.
Everything is doing good, Ive never had any problems with anything. Im just curious why my coraline isn't growing, or maybe a time frame of how long it takes to start to spread. 6 months, a year, two yrs? I don't know... I also have 4 power heads, 2 300 gph for flow, and 2 145 gph and a spraybar to agitate the top of the water, all together with pump in the fuge and all that i have a 22X turn over. any ideas would be helpful...thanks.
