Coralline growth with LED's

[MTBake]

Slimy is the cyano I was referring to and no, this isn't slimy. The coloration was a surprise as it's more like the Florida colored rock even though I went with a piece of Fiji for the seeding process. I wish it came off as easy as cyano.

I know what I have in these few spots isn't cyano. It doesn't rub off the rock easily at all. Feels slick to the surface though, when compared to the pink or purple coralline.

 

[DSC reef]

I know what I have in these few spots isn't cyano. It doesn't rub off the rock easily at all. Feels slick to the surface though, when compared to the pink or purple coralline.

I believe new coralline algae can be deep red with a kinda slimy feeling. I could also be wrong but that's how it started in my wife's nano under LEDs

 

[MTBake]

I like that idea, safer than muriatic acid.

Need to take precautions with all acids or bases. I use a citric acid at work that will cause severe irritation to your skin straight out of the container, can even burn those with sensitive skin. Same goes with bases. Those can be even more dangerous. Bottom line, be careful when working with chemicals. Even test kit solutions.

 

[KJoFan]

@Brew12 what's your project for your lights look like if you care to share. Or, if using someone else's, which one do you use?

 

[Amoo]

Need to take precautions with all acids or bases. I use a citric acid at work that will cause severe irritation to your skin straight out of the container, can even burn those with sensitive skin. Same goes with bases. Those can be even more dangerous. Bottom line, be careful when working with chemicals. Even test kit solutions.

Yep, I use the powdered stuff. I wouldn't recommend going around snorting it, but just a pinch and it goes a long way.

 

[Amoo]

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[madweazl]

I dont know the difference or why it does what it does. On the far right, it's the dark red but most of the other teeth on the weir have the pink/purple (washed out by the lighting). They grow in the same fashion and they take the same amount of effort to remove (lots). As stated before, it usually starts with the pinks/purples and ends up the dark red. Cleaned weekly; it grows fast.

 

[Radman73]

2 aP700's and I have purple with a pink trying to take hold every now and then. Not sure why the pink comes and goes.

In any case, my coralline took off once I maintained just somewhat stable parameters.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Tropic Marin's Balling system has a calcium and alkalinity part like most two-part systems, but their third part is magnesium and trace elements. Their claim is that Part C is "sodium chloride-free" sea salt. Basically, Part C is supposed to have all the elements present in seawater except for calcium and alkalinity. This is supposed to help avoid the salinity increase that comes with two-part.

Or that's the story anyway. I can say that I've been dosing Tropic Marin's part C without the other parts, just for trace elements. I use limewater for my calcium and alkalinity, so I calculated how much Part C I need based on how much alkalinity my limewater is adding. I think I have noticed some monti cap frags coloring up a bit, especially the red ones.

I will definitely look into this! Thanks for the info!

 

[Brew12]

@Brew12 what's your project for your lights look like if you care to share. Or, if using someone else's, which one do you use?

I made my own. I like my tank more white than most and have a very long period of low intensity daylight lighting.

 

[madweazl]

Macro-elements increase salinity, there isn't any way around it.

Sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, bromine, boron, strontium, and sulfur all directly correspond to salinity. If it doesn't contain much of that, I guess the claim can be accurate. I wish we had a better grasp on what was actually needed in the micro-elements region.

 

[jda]

Coralline is soft and slimy in the very beginning and you can almost get it with a magnet scraper if you do it every day... but a fingernail will certainly get it. After a few days, it gets pretty hard. The dark red stuff is a different strain than the purple and pink. The brown and blacks grow the best in lots of light and are super hard to remove once they settle in. Yellow stays a little softer and only grows in the shadows for me... and nearly never on the glass. I have had a bright red (like fire engine) before that came on pacific live rock, it has always died off over a year, or so.

 

[gtrider]

i run a xr30 pro gen 4 radion over my 65g. I started the tank at the end of March this year. Coralline is starting to coat the back glass and rocks. i'd say about 25% covered at this point and i notice more spots each day.

 

[Mattrg02]

How about fluorescent orange coralline? Who’s managed to keep that alive?

 

[MARK M. DAVIS]

Money bet he also says LEDs don’t grow acropora as well lol the infamous debate

Check out my tank. It’s sps dominant 240 g. Led only! “ Advanced aquatic solutions” public fb page. I’ll take your bet.

 

[jda]

I have only had the burnt/rusty orange live, spread and thrive... and it is ugly, IMO. Most of the bright orange from the Atlantic is sponge that people think is coralline, but it is still really beautiful and cool. The true bright orange coralline from the pacific has always died off in time for me. I have not seen any LR in years that had orange coralline on it.

I have a book somewhere by Veron (I think, but unsure) that has calcification inhibitation of some of the brighter coralline at like .02 ppm of phosphate... it is incredibly sensitive and needs to stay at NSW type levels and will only really grow in the open ocean and not in lagoons and near the shore where stuff can fluctuate a bit and terrestrial runoff can raise building block levels in local areas (which some stuff loves and others hate). The pink, purple, burgundy, brown, black are nothing like this, which is good since they are responsible for building a lot of the reef.

 

[jsker]

I am dosing the balling method and I have the deep maron coralline growing in my system.

 

[kp1991]

Coraline is great stuff just try not to allow it to scale on your glass [emoji4]

 

[mta_morrow]

I have the deep purple coralline. I do 20 gallon water changes every 6 weeks or so.

I only dose 22 ml alk per week as my corals are softies.

Maxspect razorX LEDs.

2 pincushion urchins keep the coralline in check.

 

[Billldg]

Ok, now here is a the real debate, test have been done on established tanks with a lot of coraline algae, question is will it do the same on a new tank, my tank has been running for roughly 4 months now and I have used only LED's, have I grown coraline algae, yes, did it die back when I turned my white lights up, yes, is it starting to grow back, again yes, but would it have grown quicker and not die back with t5 lights, ?, I will find out when I change my lights to a t5/LED hybrid in the future.