Coraline Help?

[twowheelsonly97]

Just a quick question.. I have a 75 fish only with lots of old dead live rock. Just put in a brand new, good size piece of LR. The LR has been cured outside of tank. As far as lighting goes I have a PC strip with 2 50/50 bulbs and one florescent HO atinic. Great water flow. My question is aprox. How long before I start to see coraline grow. I know it varies and lots has to do with how well your LR is to begin with. I'm just curious how a time frame. Thank you for any replies

 

[spanko]

Cannot give you a time frame but can tell you if you take the live rock that has coralline on it and scrape the coralline into the tank so that the spores float around you will get it to spread faster. Also if your chemistry is not up to natural seawater values you may have a hard time getting it to grow and spread in your tank. You lighting should be fine for growing coralline.

 

[gemmy]

There is no set time frame on coralline reproducing in the tank. It varies from tank to tank. The first and most important thing that is needed is for the coralline to be introduced to the tank. Then you need stable water parameters, since it grows slower in systems with high phosphates and nitrates.

 

[geoj]

I also seeded my rock as you have. My 60 gal has been up for about one month and I am just seeing coralline spots showing up.

 

[drewsbrews]

I picked up some rubble from my LFS. It's the chunks that fall off the live rock, as well as sediment and finer bits from the chunks grinding together. depending on how its kept (mine was from a running tank using the rubble as substrate) It's great stuff for seeding multiple forms of life at once.. choraline; microfauna; small shrimps, snails, stars, worms ect.