live rock

[Yoshi-22]

can anyone possibly tell me when my live rock will turn to the beautiful colors again. Im just wondering because mine still have brown algea on it.


thanks
Brandon

[Calvinc4s]

Hi Yoshi, The pink and purple colors on your rock are coraline algea. As long as you have enough light and calcium, you should be back in no time. I recomend you do a search on coraline.

[Yoshi-22]

thank you, i will.

thanks
Brandon

[Yoshi-22]

do you know a web site where i can find info about coraline?
I'm looking around, but nothing with info, its all about their experiences and where to get it.

Thanks
Brandon

[Yoshi-22]

sorry for this
I have 50/50 lights in my tank, is their a better light for my tank?
id like to get better lights but i dont know what to get. Im not investing in corals or anything, just live rock and fish.


Thanks
Brandon

[Calvinc4s]

Also, I have had good luck with turbo snails at cleaning the brown diatom off. 50/50 is a way to advertise light color; check the watts of the bulb and shape. For live rock and fish, you will be fine with normal output bulbs. I used them on my tank for a couple years when it was fish only with live rock (FOWLR).
Though, I never had luck with growing coraline algae.

[Yoshi-22]

is there a bulb that would help the algea?



Thanks
Brandon

[thefatman]

i think you would be fine with 50/50 specially since its a fowlr tank.

how often are you feeding the tank?

[Yoshi-22]

every other day, my clowns go crazy, its fun to watch then.
I feed them brine, regular and one that impoves their immune system? My brother got me that and im like ok ill try it, they like it so, i guess its ok.


Thanks
Brandon

[Doug1]

The bulb is fine, you need to make sure you keep the calcium levels up and have some nice healthy coralline to start off with. It should take off after the diatoms pass

[Yoshi-22]

cool

Thanks
Brandon

[Yoshi-22]

my canopy is falling apart, arghhh! all im having, is like clowns in, do i really need a top? jw Im just mad, im looking all over the canopy and it looks like i cant save it o well, maybe i will just get glass to go over it, if i cant have a open top


Thanks
Brandon

[Prismaco]

Hey Dough, you said something about making sure you have enough calcium. Is it bad if there is to much calcium ? Or to little ? Also on 37g, how often should liquid calcium be added. Once a week ?


-Paul

[Geoff]

Originally posted by Prismaco
Hey Dough, you said something about making sure you have enough calcium. Is it bad if there is to much calcium ? Or to little ? Also on 37g, how often should liquid calcium be added. Once a week ?


-Paul

you should get a test kit for CA. you should keep your CA above 350 ppm. if growin corals 400-420 is better. i would not use additives until you have a test kit.

if you do not have a lot of high CA using critters than weekly water changes could be enough to keep the CA high enough.

ditto for you Yoshi-22- since this is a FO tank the water changes should be enough to keep your CA high enough. it has taken my tank about 6 months for the coraline algae to get really going on the back glass. the good news is that the coraline could be growing underneath all of the diatom algae, granted not that fast, but it should still be there.

patience young reef-hopper.

G~

[Prismaco]

Ok, guess I will be buying a CA kit this weekend along with building a fuge Right now I dont have alot of critters that would need that but I just was curious.


-Paul