Too much coralline
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Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
Full Red Sea SPS Dominant recipe, so all Red Sea products.
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Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
I do wonder if the Red Sea Mature kit kicked all this off last year. I’m sure their Coraline Gro got this all started but I haven’t used it since the cycle last year.
Rick.45cal
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LOL. Been doing reef tanks since 2005, this is definitely not cyano. Here’s a full white lights just now.
Mine grows on my sand too! Every snail shell (abandoned or occupied) is completely purple.
I have some larger pebbles on my gravel bed to stop the sand blowing around in areas and they are completely covered in coraline and looks exactly like the OP's. Not cyano.... Heck , my fighting Conchs, snails...all have Coraline on them! I keep the back panel of the tank scraped clean where I can reach it otherwise it would be completely purple. My rocks are all completely covered as well....some tanks just grow that stuff really well ...I laugh when I read posts about people not being able to grow any in their tanks...I've even offered to send scrapings in seawater to people to help get them seeded....I've heard that lower lit tanks grow it better but I have 5 GHL 7206 Mitras over my tank and the Coraline does exceedingly well!!
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lolgranny
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That first photo with the fresh rocks definitely looks like cyano, sorry. Blue photos from far away can only give off a guess after all. CLEARLY it’s not as he posted a better photo.
I don’t grow much and I’m happy about that. Just makes for more work at cleaning the big thing.
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Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
I’m using the new Maxspect R5X and pushing about 300par atm at the top of the rocks. That’s also why I’m head scratching why I still have so much coralline. On the sand bed I’d say I’m at about 160-180par. I have to retake readings since I’ve upped my par a little but not much more then that previous pic I showed.
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Honestly I am so jealous, my tank has very small purple spots on the rock and that’s it...
Devaji
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scrap it and give it to others that are staring new tanks to seed them. I know it will not solve your "issue" but it might make you feel better about it. to be honest I like it more that before the hurricane pic . maybe that just me tho. I know to much can be a pain.
maybe slow down on the red sea recipe and/or add 5X the frags to have in there??
maybe slow down on the red sea recipe and/or add 5X the frags to have in there??
Devaji
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real reef rock for the walt smith 2.1 rock? I have real reef and it has not bled in a year. curious to this statement.
sfin52
So many pedestrians so little time
Also the rocks need to be attached to each other with epoxy
If you get the chunks out of your sand, some conchs and cucumbers can keep it clean. I love me some Pin Cushions from the Florida keys - I get my conchs and cucumbers from there too.
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Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
Actually no, half the rock is live Fiji rock from years back and the new stuff is BRS Reef Saver rock. The only Real Reef Rock is the the rock mount for my PMK sitting up on the top rock. Real Reef Rock is not even real coralline.
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AdamNC
Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
I got them, hundreds of them. They’ve done nothing as you can see.
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Lawnmower Blenny says nom nom
Well dang, none of my rocks are fused together. Even though I have a low rockscape, think I still need to
