My tank is 2 months shy of 3yrs old. Zero Coralline. Running LEDs entire time.
Zero Coralline?!
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wkscott
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Unless you introduce some coraline, you won't have any. It can come in on live rock that has spores, frag plugs, and even invert shells.
It will grow as long as your parameters are in line.
It will grow as long as your parameters are in line.
DarkSky
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I ran LEDs over my SPS tank and never had any grow. I switched to a T5 fixture and had an explosion of it everywhere within three months. It doesn't seem to like direct, bright lights perhaps? If you ever look at LFS tanks, it'll be in the corners and edges where the light isn't strong.
Its been noted that under higher par, purple coralline will disappear. Its really common. ( I Actually use it as a gauge of light when looking at folks Tanks .)
Any Idea of your Par?
Its also been noted recently that highly regulated alk and possibly trace minerals might be missing from those (or its an inconsistency of alkalinity).
What are you using for cal and alk?
Im switching from ESV to Tropic marin after talking to and seeing whats going on in @Rick.45cal tank.
Any Idea of your Par?
Its also been noted recently that highly regulated alk and possibly trace minerals might be missing from those (or its an inconsistency of alkalinity).
What are you using for cal and alk?
Im switching from ESV to Tropic marin after talking to and seeing whats going on in @Rick.45cal tank.
Rick.45cal
2500 Club Member
What form of alkalinity and calcium supplementation are you using?
Dumaurier7
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OP
OP
Very consistent numbers. Calc-440, ALK-8.4, MAG-1470. Running doser, BRS 2prt. Dose Mag if needed. Radion Gen3.
The back used to be covered with Coralline while using an led black box the first 2yrs. Added the Radion and it completely disappeared. So seems the Radion is the reason? I'm not complaining. Just after 7yrs reefing it's an unusual experience for me [emoji4]
The back used to be covered with Coralline while using an led black box the first 2yrs. Added the Radion and it completely disappeared. So seems the Radion is the reason? I'm not complaining. Just after 7yrs reefing it's an unusual experience for me [emoji4]
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
I love Tropic Marin. Used it for a long time. Good luck with it, you will love it!
Thanks. Kinda stoked....Never really been excited about calcium before...
bblumberg
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^^^ this. I have the same experience. My 2 LED lit tanks have coralline, but it is not particularly dense or purple. My new T5/LED build has abundant coralline growing everywhere but particularly lower in the tank and on rocks where the light levels are not the highest. Perhaps the best evidence is that a rock that came from my 75 g corner (temporarily down) is growing a massive amount of deep purple coralline. Other rocks from that tank are in my garage under CF actinic daylight lights with the same result - lots of coralline where there was previously rather little.
Bruce
nervousmonkey
LPS Lover, SPS Enabler
Which version of the Tropic Marin salt are you using? I'm guessing Pro Reef? I always had great results with it, and it's as stable a mix as anything I've used. Never had to roll the barrel to get the salt mixed better, but I also used a huge bag of it that I dumped into a container, so maybe that mixed it up, don't know. Always had the same readings as well from batch to batch and in two years never had an iffy batch. Just good stuff. I switched Fauna Marin along with their Balling Light method to keep parameters super stable, and if there was a salt that I would say competed with TM, I would say FM is it, but I am only a month into it, so no way to get really accurate, "eyeballing it" anecdotal evidence.
LOL
Flameback Pair
started reefing 1999
Indo Pacific Sea Farms out of Hawaii will sell you plates with coralline to "seed" your tank. Also kalkwasser is excellent.
Asagi
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Why do you want coralline? Are you getting good colors and growth? If so, don't worry about it. Your clam and corals seen happy to me. reefers in japan regard coralline as a nuisance algae and seek to keep everything in such a balance that livestock use up all trace elements with nothing left over for coralline to grow. Pretty interesting huh?
OP
OP
Oh I'm not worried about it. Just find it to be an interesting topic and wanted to see what others opinions were on the subject. Was wondering if others using LEDs were experiencing something similar.
As for growth my Clam alone has almost doubled it's size in a year. [emoji16]
Same here. As an experiment, I ran an EcoTech Radion one one side of my 75 gal and a 150w MH Phoenix on the other side and had near zero coralline growth after several years on both sides. When I moved those lights to another tank I fired up the old power compacts with new bulbs and after about six months I now have a back wall covered in coralline and some on the rocks. It's algae and as such I would imagine it's particular about specific light frequencies and grows best under certain ones.
Darksky, that's because of us that worked retail at LFS, had to break thumbs and many scrappers getting off glass so you could see our quality fish..
Literally the front in LFS, mandatory, the sides and back scrapped to keep from spreading to front
Literally the front in LFS, mandatory, the sides and back scrapped to keep from spreading to front
