purple up

[daniel smith]

Hello.
I submitted a thread the other day (06,26.06) regarding bryopsis algae and i am currently in the proccess of purhasing a couple of lettuce nudibranchs. Another question i would like to ask is seeing as this is an sps tank and i havn't got anything in it at the moment but two montipora frags given to me by my uncle as a test ( these both have new groth edges) , i dont really want to set up my calcium reactor for two frags . So would the product (purple up) be able to keep up with the calcium/alkalinty/magnesium requirements of these two frags and the corraline algae assuming i had already balanced these with magnesium chloride/calcium chloride/sodium bicarbonate. I feel that if i could get my corraline growing faster it would solve the bryopsis problems. cheers.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

If you are already using a Calcium and Alkalinity Additive system, then there would be no need to use Purple Up. I take it you are using a homemade version of the Two Part systems?

 

[daniel smith]

I am only using the calcium / magnesium chloride ,sodium bicarbonate to get the balance correct. I was under the impression that it isn't a good idea to carry on using these as supplements over the long term as it upsets the ionic balance.