Coral line algae

[StPatrick89]

I’m seeing you can but coral line algae in a bottle to “seed” your tank. Is this true? It’s a newbie question so please impart your knowledge

 

[Miami Reef]

ACR reef is the best coralline algae bottled product. But do yourself a favor and go to LFS and asked for some rubble rocks or snail shells with coralline algae. That’s guaranteed to work and it’s so much more inexpensive. Coralline is destined to grow if you have have some attached to anything and parameters to care for stony corals.

 

[Jbell370]

I’m seeing you can but coral line algae in a bottle to “seed” your tank. Is this true? It’s a newbie question so please impart your knowledge

I went to my friends place, took a razor and scraped off a section covering his glass. Once home, crushed it up fine, turned my flow off and sprinkled around the base of rocks, 2 weeks later I know have visible growth on the glass. As Miami Reef said, need stable Alk Cal.

 

[StPatrick89]

ACR reef is the best coralline algae bottled product. But do yourself a favor and go to LFS and asked for some rubble rocks or snail shells with coralline algae. That’s guaranteed to work and it’s so much more inexpensive. Coralline is destined to grow if you have have some attached to anything and parameters to care for stony corals.

Should I be worried about hitch-hikers if I grab a piece of rock or snail shell?

 

[StPatrick89]

I went to my friends place, took a razor and scraped off a section covering his glass. Once home, crushed it up fine, turned my flow off and sprinkled around the base of rocks, 2 weeks later I know have visible growth on the glass. As Miami Reef said, need stable Alk Cal.

Interesting, so scraping it off the glass won’t transfer any disease etc? Ignorant question but popped in my head

 

[elorablue]

Interesting, so scraping it off the glass won’t transfer any disease etc? Ignorant question but popped in my head

It'll be fine.

man, the quarantine evangelists have everyone runnin' scared

 

[JPM San Diego]

It'll be fine ... until it isn't. I like the recommendation of getting coraline algae from a fellow aquarist and not from your LFS. Expose your tank to one tank, not an entire store full of tanks (assuming they have a centralized system) with new critters coming in all the time. Your fellow aquarist can let you know if they are dealing with any pests or if they are running fine.

 

[StPatrick89]

It'll be fine.

man, the quarantine evangelists have everyone runnin' scared

I’m weak!!! That’s hilarious

 

[StPatrick89]

It'll be fine ... until it isn't. I like the recommendation of getting coraline algae from a fellow aquarist and not from your LFS. Expose your tank to one tank, not an entire store full of tanks (assuming they have a centralized system) with new critters coming in all the time. Your fellow aquarist can let you know if they are dealing with any pests or if they are running fine.

That make sense

 

[Jbell370]

My guy grows, cultures and sells corals only, never had an issue and I use him to stock my tank, only made sense for me to get it from him. Not sure what diseases one could get from crusted pink and purple stuff, but never know.

 

[JPM San Diego]

I recall in one of the BRS videos Ryan or Randy scraped coraline algae off the wall of a tank with Aiptasia. Even though there was no visible Aiptasia in the area being scraped Aiptasia showed up in the tank receiving the scraping.