Will Microbacter clean kill my coraline algae in a bottle?

[AtticusPutt]

I recently started my new reef tank, after seeding it I was planning on dosing Coraline algae in a bottle as well as microbacter clean. If I add them at the same time will they work in conjunction together?

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

Don’t use any of that bottled stuff man. Just wait. You don’t need to “dose” anything. Let your reef develop naturally or you will be a slave to bottle treatments forever. My .02. Best of luck.

 

[AtticusPutt]

Don’t use any of that bottled stuff man. Just wait. You don’t need to “dose” anything. Let your reef develop naturally or you will be a slave to bottle treatments forever. My .02. Best of luck.

Ok man, thanks for the advice. I can definitely see the validity in that, Its just my first tank and I want it so bad. But I will lay off on the bottle treatments, thanks

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

You will have a reef to make others jelly in six months to a year if you are patient and go slow.

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

But I get it. It’s hard to wait. Focus on growing a couple easy corals after cycle and getting you maintenance routine down. That will pay dividends. Get a ricordia mushroom and some GSP on its own little rock. Watch it grow. Get an awesome goby and enjoy that stuff for a while. Then in a few weeks get another fish. Then another coral. Before you know it you will be in business.

no bottles required.

 

[StlSalt]

I agree with @Tiki Reef Joshua , you can seed the tank with coralline algae spores, but they still won't grow until you have nice stable water params. Take your time and concentrate on stability, you'll have coralline algae growth before you know it.

 

[therremans]

This thread is five months old but I wanted to contribute. I assume I will have to add coraline algae somehow, as my rock was cured from a dry state. So I don’t always agree with just let it mature comments. I also don’t want to spend $22 on a bottle of algae so will likely wait until I find a local friend. Or maybe a snail or frag will contain some, but they will be in a 72 day QT before they enter the display tanks.

 

[Xavier434]

This thread is five months old but I wanted to contribute. I assume I will have to add coraline algae somehow, as my rock was cured from a dry state. So I don’t always agree with just let it mature comments. I also don’t want to spend $22 on a bottle of algae so will likely wait until I find a local friend. Or maybe a snail or frag will contain some, but they will be in a 72 day QT before they enter the display tanks.

I fixed this issue by asking my LFS to scrape some chunks of Coraline out of their frag tanks for me to take home. I took those chunks and glued them to my rocks. This occurred after my tank's params were stable. It still took time and patience to spread, but it worked great!