Should I use purple up.?

[MarkAshlee2021]

Hi everyone, my tank is around a year old. I have never dosed calcium. I have bought some purple up by carib Sea. Should I dose or not. Thanks in advance.

 

[ScottR]

Hi everyone, my tank is around a year old. I have never dosed calcium. I have bought some purple up by carib Sea. Should I dose or not. Thanks in advance.

What are you trying to achieve? Getting better coralline growth?

 

[tehmadreefer]

Why pay something that may or may not work, when it’s free??

 

[dvgyfresh]

I dose Kent marine purple in order to boost coraline , it’s really just a alk/cal dose with some trace elements

 

[MarkAshlee2021]

What are you trying to achieve? Getting better coralline growth?

Hi, yes that's my aim plus want to kinda help my corals and invertebrates grow better and be healthy.

 

[MarkAshlee2021]

I dose Kent marine purple in order to boost coraline , it’s really just a alk/cal dose with some trace elements

OK, I just don't want to overdose my tank if my levels are OK. I don't know what my cal and alk levels are?

 

[Jekyl]

I would test your current parameters before dosing anything.

 

[tehmadreefer]

Well purple up is for introducing coralline algae into your tank, it’s not something you dose for corals or inverts lol

 

[dvgyfresh]

Do not dose anything you don’t have a test kit for, this will not end up good lol

 

[sde1500]

Well purple up is for introducing coralline algae into your tank, it’s not something you dose for corals or inverts lol

Purple up is nothing more than a calcium supplement. That is all.


OP do not does it unless you know your CA levels.

 

[Dkmoo]

Check and post your params first, then we can better answer. Purple up will help if the elements it doses is low in yourbtank - alk, ca, mag, etc..

But generally its better to dose those parameters individually to better finetune and control the levels

 

[MarkAshlee2021]

OK thank you everyone, I'll get my water tested first.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

FWIW, the primary ingredient in Purple Up is just fine aragonite sand that does nothing for soluble calcium or alkalinity. It may, however, give false high readings for each if the suspended particles are still in the water at testing.

It may possibly promote the growth of coralline on the bare calcium carbonate surfaces of the particulates dosed, and some of those may happen to land where you want coralline to grow. That is the only mechanism that I've ever heard as a plausible explanation for the positive results that some folks claim.