plating coraline algea

[sassafrass]

thought I'd share a pic of some plating coraline

 

[IslandCrow]

Yeah, I have a little bit of that in my aquarium. Looks like it's plating quite nicely for you. I really like the look of it.

 

[widmer]

Hey thanks for the pic. I can't say I've seen it spread that far out like it's a montipora or something. Just curious, what's your lighting and how far down in the tank is this stuff?

 

[sassafrass]

Lighting is 250w 20k mh it seems to grow in lower light areas when I first saw it in my friends tank I thought it was some kind of mini montipora I really like it
Regards ,Lee

 

[goulashriot]

i had something like that in my tank, only bright orange. plated the same way, quite beautiful actually. dont think it was coraline though. lost it all after a huge macro algea outbreak and had to scrub down all the rocks.

 

[IslandCrow]

I haven't seen it in bright orange. That probably looked really cool. The other color I do have is a sort of rusty reddish-orange. Mine also seems to grow like that in areas of my tank that are a little shadowed. I'm running 5x39W T-5s.

 

[goulashriot]

i was and still am running four 39w t5's. the individual plates got to be about the size of a half dollar coin. not quite sure where it came from, maybe on live rock but im not sure. i might have a pic of it somewhere on my laptop.