Marco Rock Matured

w8lifts · Sep 9, 2023

I added true actinic light and was startled with the amount if coralline algae on my rocks. Here is my progression on using this rock instead of live rock. Tank started last June, ugly stage was very manageable. Small Dino stage early on, then a big bubble algae stage, hair algae, now coralline took over.

Waters · Sep 9, 2023

Good job! Looks good.....I set up my last tank over a year ago with all dry marco rock. Never had any issues at all with algae, dinos, etc. Just proof if you do it right it can be done

rhitee93 · Sep 9, 2023

Looking good. Thanks for some inspiration!

You don't happen to have a timeline of pics to illustrate what happend at what time do you?

I'm following a similar path, but my tank has only been wet for 3 weeks now. Been a lot of fire and brimstone around here lately about how doomed someone is who doesn't start with rock from the ocean. It has me dreading the next year of my life, but getting 200lbs of ocean rock simply wasn't an option for me.

w8lifts · Sep 9, 2023

rhitee93 said:
Looking good. Thanks for some inspiration!

You don't happen to have a timeline of pics to illustrate what happend at what time do you?

I'm following a similar path, but my tank has only been wet for 3 weeks now. Been a lot of fire and brimstone around here lately about how doomed someone is who doesn't start with rock from the ocean. It has me dreading the next year of my life, but getting 200lbs of ocean rock simply wasn't an option for me.

Not really, I just checked my phone and really the ugly staged happened so quickly and I had remedies in place before they became a huge issue. One thing that really worked out well for me was to just flip the rocks over lol. I did that all the time and it really prevented an outbreak of something. also really ensured stable parameters so the coralline algae would take over quickly. At week 6/7 I already had it growing then before long had a full sheets of it.