The best accelerator is keeping your alk/cal/mag stable. Also, coralline doesn't like high PAR, and seems to love blue spectrum. It will take off in the lower PAR areas of your tank. Yes, those little spots will grow larger and larger. Mine grows in overlapping expanding circular patterns.
X2 on the lower light.
Wow. Well done ARCreef! Sorry to hear about the usps troubles. Thanks for the heads up!
Could I add this too a cycled tank already? I have some coraline but would love to have a variety.
This is what I am doing. I have a fully cycled tank with some initial specks of it here and there mostly from CUC and frag plug introductions. But its all the same stuff. My hope is that adding this will give me some additional variety that over time will blend in very well.
Hi Mandee,
Thank you Mandee, if you order by 5pm we ship all orders the same day, after 5pm and it will go out by noon the following day. Our product can be ordered directly at https://arcreef.com/product/coralline-algae/ or via Amazon and ebay. Please make sure to read our informational pamphlet that will accompany the product. We will put this up on our site sometime next week so you don't have to purchase our algae to benefit from the information shared on that. It contains information about lighting, temperature, and proper water chemistry. Coralline Algae in a Bottle does not provide coralline algae over night. It takes an average of 4 weeks to get small dots and splashes of color that we call chickenpox, and then it grows fairly fast after that point. Some have gotten it quicker but our beta testing has shown that 4 weeks is the average. We do not want anyone to think that you add our bottle and over night your rocks turn purple. It does provide the actual coralline algae spores though, and as you know coralline will not grow on it's own in a tank, it must be introduced. Hope this helps a little please let us know if you have any further questions.
hmm, not sure what it looks like when it starts on rock. Mine seems to only grow on my glass and powerheads so far.If you ignore the bits of nuisance algae and sand blown around I believe I got my first coralline from the ARC product today... It's green but I'll take it. I introduced the product on January 1.
Hi Tikosyn, thank you for your question. Yes there is currently still a 30-45 day delay on all live rock orders. We sustained a direct hit from Hurricane Irma, both to our facility and to our offshore reef in the Atlantic Ocean. We are no longer taking orders for live rock from Amazon and while we are still accepting orders for future delivery on our website, we are suggesting that customers wait until February before ordering as local weather conditions with 7 ft waves have made it very hard lately for us to get out offshore to our reef and work on it. We are not the only aquacultured live rock producer that got hit from the hurricane. Many of the other companies are also in the same situation as us as well. In November the Florida Department of Agriculture called a meeting with all of us and it was very disheartening to hear from everyone, several of the producers in the keys had their reefs completely wiped from the map. As you stated we do offer next day air and we do contact you before shipping when the delay is this long. If you do place an order we will update you on it's status every 2-3 weeks, and you will receive a tracking email on the day your order ships out. We can also work with you if you need it for a specific date.
Edit to this post they did contact me via email and assured me that they do the corraline product in a specific environment for producing it and assured me that product was free of parasite/diseases so...ordered a bottle for fun lol
