Seeding for coraline

Teenreefer15

Teenreefer15

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I have around 11 pounds of real reef rock and 1 pounds of live rock rubble (covered in coraline). What is a good way to seed the real reef rock. Right now i just have the rubble spaced around all over the rocks. Is this good?
 
I would take a piece of the coraline, hold it in front of a power head and vigorously scrupulous the coraline with a stiff bristle tooth brush to release the spores
 
TwistedMind said:
I would take a piece of the coraline, hold it in front of a power head and vigorously scrupulous the coraline with a stiff bristle tooth brush to release the spores
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I have a turbo snail who came completely encrusted in purple, green, red, and white... boy, is he in for a surprise. :D
 
I added several pieces of pure white dry rock to my tank and within two months it's coloring up nicely. I don't think you need to do anything at all.
 
Thank you guys for the information. Do you recommend dosing any supplements? I have carib sea purple up which has all the trace elements in one. Do you think this will help?
 
Don't dose anything that you aren't testing for. Just be patient. It will start to grow everywhere, rocks, glass, powerheads, heaters.
 
scott71 said:
Purple up will help
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What will help the most is just keeping the water within the recommended parameters and keeping it stable. If you do that, coralline will grow, and it will grow just as well with or without the gimmick stuff they sell to supposedly speed it's spread. IMO any coralline booster supplement is a waste of money.
 
There are only 2 supplements proven to increase coralline growth: 2-part and kalk. Anything else is just snake oil.
 
IMO supplements like those mess up your water and add unwanted nutrients which just causes more new tank problems and causes you to believe you need to buy more supplements to fix the new problems. I wouldn't use it.
 
I'm not a fan of coraline however I was informed that once you start to see growth of it, your tank is maturing well.

It also sucks mag out of the water and spreads pretty quickly (think like xenias).
 
I was trying to do the same as this when I was a newb.. The purple just looked cool. Since you already have corriline in the tank on rocks, it will spread.. Keeping your perams right will help. Fwiw I heard that the guys at LFS that do this to vats of rock is that they scrape off some corriline in the water and run lights 24 hrs for a couple days.. So if you dont have any inhabitants, you could try that.
 
I started my current tank with all dry rock and substrate to avoid coralline; however, just one month with a couple of coralline encrusted snails and a handful of hermits and the purple crap covered everything.
 
Im gonna stop dosing purple up and make sure my params are good. Thank you all for the info. If you have any more advice tell me below!
 
Mr. Bill said:
I started my current tank with all dry rock and substrate to avoid coralline; however, just one month with a couple of coralline encrusted snails and a handful of hermits and the purple crap covered everything.
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All you got to do is kill the lights. Switch to a standard cheap florescent fixture to just light the tank, and just keep it on during viewing hours. My buds tank has zero coraline, he is fish only. He also runs a UV, which can kill a lot of "good" reef bacteria given long exposure (slow flow through the UV), so good is a relative term. Had the tank for years with zero coraline, but live rock.
 
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