need help on coralline

[Tommy Tang]

My tank, in the past, had coralline primarilly in the back of my tank. Now, it has developed to the front and side glass of my tank. Is this normal? Should I scrape it? Any help would be appreciated!

 

[DaddyJax]

Scrape it now or it will get out of control!

 

[Tommy Tang]

Thanks for the quick response. Do you know what causes the spreading of this algae so I may control it?

 

[Tommy Tang]

anybody else

 

[DaddyJax]

Nutrients. You can cotrol it with scraping or get a black urchin.

 

[Tommy Tang]

thanks again

 

[Bryan89]

You can also lower your alk to the lower end of the band, this will slow the coralline growth

 

[sedorusc]

nutrients are found from silicates or phosphates in your water, overfeeding, and decaying anything. I am having a little trouble with cyanobacteria right now. light also plays into this.

 

[Phyto]

Coralline algae LOVES actinic lights!

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

COralline algae generally grows in the same conditions as corals. In another words, if your tank is running well, and promoting coral growth, then you will likely get coralline growth. However, if you have enough stoney corals, they will out compete the coralline somewhat.

 

[Tommy Tang]

Jeremy blaze thanks I did my water tast last night

temp 80
amonia 0
alk 8
cal 340
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
ph 8.4

 

[john f]

Which brand of test kits??

Just sorta doing an informal survey....

John

BTW........Coralline growth = coral growth. No worries mate

 

[Ryanqk]

Yeah i agree i am trying to get MORE coralline in my tank using "Purple Up" which supplies calcium, and many other essentials, it also helps supply my corals with nutrients so i'd welcome as much of it as i can get.
Ryan

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

Purple up is a joke, do a search in Randys forum.

 

[DrBDC]

Purple up is calcium carbonate which is not soluble in our reefs unless you let your ca reactor run wild and drive the pH down so low everything else is dead including what little corraline you do have.

 

[Serioussnaps]

i like coralline.....you dont? if you dont scrape it..no biggy

 

[Ryanqk]

Actually i've seen alot of coralline growth since ive been using it, I'm happy with purple up. Maybe I'm just using it different....
Its almost doubled in my tank.

oh and i dont use a skimmer...

Ryan