coralline?

[cato]

How many months till coralline starts to appear on tank walls? My tank is 4 months old and doing great (knock on wood). Coralline is appearing on all the LR but thats it.

Was just wondering.

 

[fishaholic911]

what additives are you using. In my experiance it takes longer with halide lighting then with vho

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

be patient it takes a while for the tank to mature. furthermore, once it gets going you will wish you could stop it because your gonna be scraping the glass/acrylic quite often. hope this help...

 

[KevinM]

What will help is to point a powerhead at a well encrusted piece of LR, and find yourself a very stiff-bristled plastic brush to scrub that spot with.

It'll help spread the spores around the tank.

Kev

 

[cato]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6558111#post6558111 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishaholic911
what additives are you using. In my experiance it takes longer with halide lighting then with vho

No additives as of yet. Just starting corals. Have 2 med LPS and a couple frags (zoo's & star polyp). Suggestions??

 

[keto]

start adding calcum

 

[PatMayo]

I would not just start adding calcium.
To your first question I have coralline growing on the sides of the tank and of course the live rock about 145 days into my tank. If you have algae on the sides of the tank the coralline will not grow.

Once I started seeing some decent coralline growing on the back of the tank I purchased a quality Alkalinity and Calcium test kit. Salifert makes real good kits.

I then tested for these 2 items and read up on everything I could in the chemistry forum. This is where you will get an education.

Now that I treat for Calk and Alk after testing, the coralline is growing like made. I do have to work to keep it off the front of the tank but I don't care where else it grows. I like it.

Here are some links that will help you.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2002/chem.htm

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.php

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/april2004/chem.htm

Read read read, then test and then treat.

Regards,

Pat

 

[reefdadx2]

Listen to Pat , he hit the nail on the head. Michael R

 

[fishaholic911]

If you have corals lsp you need to add calcuim but get your self a test kit or have the lfs test it. You should also be adding marine snow, dt's, selcon corals need to eat.

 

[fishaholic911]

LPS