coralline algea?

khaari

khaari

Member
hi there :) noob without a tank, still doing research first. I have a question about coralline algae...I know it grows in many different colors and that you first need to introduce the spores into a tank for it to start growing...but is there anyway to get a certain color to grow or does it all depend on whatever type was introduced into the tank?
 
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thomas712

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I believe that it depends on the type introduced into the tank, mine has always been that deep red color. I have seen places that offer a "substance" that might have a mix of coralline spores, but I do not want to put a link in that might be of conflict here on this board. If you know anyone that has a color that you like you could just scrape some off of their live rock, perhaps a good LFS would do this for you.
Thomas
 
bang guy

bang guy

Moderator
I believe it depends on your lighting. Intense lighting seems to propogate different colors than low lighting.
 
piccasotrigger

piccasotrigger

Member
does anyone have any pics of pink purple blue or red coraline i dont know wat it looks like i have only seen green i think i might have some red tho i need to see a pic tho. the algea i have is no stringy or looks like it can be rubbed off it is like red balls all over one piece of lr i just bought. is this coralline
 
fishfood

fishfood

Member
I have probably 4 or 5 shades of pink/purple ranging from very light pastel pink to dark maroonish purples and even some red specks poking up hear and there and recently some green. If i had a camera that took decent pictures i would post some. I think that my coralline is the best part of my tank at the moment and would be one of those pictures that people might say ohh and ahh. I have about 75-80% coverage on all my lr and it is starting to get bad on my glass. To bad i have green slime algae on the sand and patches of hair algae that won't go away. I dosed my tank heavily with kalk and didn't really have much that needed it at first. I also ran 285w of vho with 2 super actinic bulbs and 1 white bulb for the first year or so that the tank was up. This past summer i added a 175mh. I think most of mine came from the uncured live rock that i got when i first set it up.
 
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newreefers

Guest
I have green, purple, pink, orange, and just a spot of blue. I am hoping the blue takes off, purple is the dominant color. I didn't do anything special. I just kind of appeared. I have it in both my tanks. I know people say adding chems is bad, but this is what I add and my tank is thriving. This is for the 37 gallon tank. I do 10% water changes weekly and add this weekly.
Lifo 2 drops
Iodine Plus2.5 ml
Iron Plus 2.5 ml
Natu Vite 2 ml
Reef Former8 ounces in filter
Corraline
Stimulator1 cap
Strontium 4 drops
Coral-Vite 1 cap
It’s Clear 2 ml
Kzyme2 ounces
Bromactin 1 cap-full
Coral Vital
LSB2 ml
Bacter Vital1 cap-full
 
marinerock

marinerock

Member
HI ALL...
QUESTIONS...
CAN I TAKE A SCRAPING OF THE RED CORALINE ALGAE OFF THE
GLASS OF MY REEF TANK AND DROP IT IN MY FISH ONLY TANK?
WILL I START TO GET THE CORALINE ALGAE IN MY FOWLS TANK JUST FROM THE LITTLE BIT THAT I ADD?
OR HOW SHOULD I ADD IT INTO THE FOWLS WITH DECORATIVE DEAD CORAL TANK...? SHOULD I TRY TO PLACE IT ON ONE OF THE PIECES OF DECO CORAL OR LET IT FREE FLOAT OR PLACE IT IN THE WET/DRY...?
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO PROPOGATE?
DO I HAVE TO PUT ANYTHING IN THE FO TANK TO MAINTAIN THE CORALINE ALGAE ONCE IT STARTS TO PROPOGATE?
SORRY FOR THE LONG POST AND MANY QUESTIONS....
HAPPY NEW YEAR...
REGARDS....
MARINEROCK
 
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