The Secret to Coralline

[O'l Salty]

My tank has been running a little over a year ago and I've been seeding with coralline for about two months. Unfortunately whatever starts growing eventually turns white and dies.

Salinity: 1.025
PH 8.1
Alk 7.9
Mg: 1,325
Ca: 425
Nitrate: 2
Phosphate .07

I run a UV Sterilizer could that be causing a problem? I've been battling Dino's but have that problem resolved.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ime , the purple corraline does not like high light. Over prob 200 par.
Some leds seem to not grow corraline well.
You can look at a lot of sps dom tanks for that.

I blasted mine once changing lights.
My fuge still grew crazy good corraline.

I tried tropic Marine balling salts for cal alk and mag. It grew pink corraline like crazy.

 

[O'l Salty]

Ime , the purple corraline does not like high light. Over prob 200 par.
Some leds seem to not grow corraline well.
You can look at a lot of sps dom tanks for that.

I blasted mine once changing lights.
My fuge still grew crazy good corraline.

I tried tropic Marine balling salts for cal alk and mag. It grew pink corraline like crazy.

Now that you mention it I do have a lot of coraline in my fuge. I have two AI Primes over a 40 breeder which really isn't high power.

 

[Fourstars]

I run Phoenix 14k over mine and I had bleaching, Once I supplemented with a few true actinic bulbs it took off. but still bleaches right under the intense halide.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I don’t know the exact needs of corraline , however I suspect it would like some orange and yellow.

 

[skiergd011013]

in my experience coralline doesnt really like leds. We had TONS of coralline in our reef tank at work under 20k metal halides. When we switched to AI hydras, all of our coralline that wasnt in shade, died. I have since dumped the hydras and installed T5's.

 

[cracker]

I changed led to T 5's & see some some spots On the back glass & decent growth on the rock. I do have high par in this tank. Now the 180, I run 165 black boxes turned all the way down( fish only). I have great coraline on the rock.

 

[skiergd011013]

I changed led to T 5's & see some some spots On the back glass & decent growth on the rock. I do have high par in this tank. Now the 180, I run 165 black boxes turned all the way down( fish only). I have great coraline on the rock.

I just sold the tank, but I had a 30 gallon under 2x ati actinic, and 2x ati blue plus, and it grew coralline well.

 

[cracker]

I just sold the tank, but I had a 30 gallon under 2x ati actinic, and 2x ati blue plus, and it grew coralline well.

I'm about to order new bulbs & will most likely go more blue this time. Thanks for the insight

 

[Susan Edwards]

My tank is only 2 mo nths old, with the fuge loaded with live rock with coraline. My tank has had coraline for a month now--having to really scrape the glass of it. I have 2 current ic marine pros 7 " off the water. No issue growing it.

 

[lbacha]

in my experience coralline doesnt really like leds. We had TONS of coralline in our reef tank at work under 20k metal halides. When we switched to AI hydras, all of our coralline that wasnt in shade, died. I have since dumped the hydras and installed T5's.

I would think spectrum and par are more of the issue as opposed to it being an Led. Since I've added my orphek atlantik v4 to my tank coralline is growing like crazy even in the higher 250+ par areas that it wasn't growing before.

 

[reefwiser]

Me too on MH once I got my alk and cal dialed in and switched from radions to MH 20k boom with the coralline .

 

[tangtime]

I have coralline growing like crazy under my mars aqua leds.

 

[HolisticBear]

My tank has been running a little over a year ago and I've been seeding with coralline for about two months. Unfortunately whatever starts growing eventually turns white and dies.

Salinity: 1.025
PH 8.1
Alk 7.9
Mg: 1,325
Ca: 425
Nitrate: 2
Phosphate .07

I run a UV Sterilizer could that be causing a problem? I've been battling Dino's but have that problem resolved.

How high are you running the white channel? Dinos generally implies low nutrients, which isn't great for any growth, but initial thought was that you were running the white channel "very" high.