Coralline Magic!!!!!!

[Joe_B]

Everybody has a magic formula or recipe for getting Coralline Algea to grow; what's yours?

I'm trying new methods to grow my own live rock and was hoping for some input!!

One-Love,
Joe_B

 

[Anonymous]

Try getting rid of it. Murphy's law will dictate that you end up with more than you started with.

Seriously, scrape some of it off the rocks you have, it grows back with a vengence for me. I use half a dozen urchins to do the scraping for me since I'm a lazy American.

[ July 19, 2001: Message edited by: Guy ]

 

[Joe_B]

Thanks!!! Anybody else want to share?[/LIST]

 

[North Bay 101]

Drip Kalkwasser, Drip, Drip, Drip

Thats all I needed to do. I have purple, pink and lime green coraline algae growing all over. Be patient and it will come.

 

[hectina]

I forgot to dose with Strontium, and it started to die off. I added it, and the coraline grew back with a vengance. I noticed that iron has helped as well.

 

[Joe_B]

Cool!!!! any other observations?

 

[myreef]

I battled coralline for a long time...because I was too lazy to dose everything I needed to. Strontium, magnesium, etc, etc. Once I hooked up my CA reactor my coralline took off like never before. It is the lazy mans way to get good coralline growth. I am not saying a reactor is for everyone, but I travel and it sure does work for me!

 

[Anonymous]

These are examples of my coralline coverage. In most of the pics you can see where an urchin has scraped it down to the rock. It always grows back looking better than it did before...
http://home.eznet.net/~terry10/coral/aiptasia.jpg http://home.eznet.net/~terry10/critters/patrick.jpg http://home.eznet.net/~terry10/critters/spike.jpg http://home.eznet.net/~terry10/critters/tunicates.jpg http://home.eznet.net/~terry10/fish/banggai_eggs.jpg http://home.eznet.net/~terry10/fish/clown.jpg