Dont know if I did this right

[yellow submarine]

Yesterday I posted a request for help about getting my coraline growing on a newer rock from an older encrusted rock. The consensus was to scrap some coraline off the old rock and sprinkle/place the coraline frags on the new rock....even try and cut some sheets of coraline and place on newer rock.

Well....today I tried to scrap and/or cut..... I really could not get any decent size chunks of coraline off with an exacto-knife.

I ended up getting a flathead screwdriver to scrap and GOUGE the backside of my old encrusted rock....and then swooshed the small particles off the rock so it floated around inside the tank.

I HAVE A POWERFILTER SYSTEM...SO I REMOVED THE FILTER-PADS BUT LEFT THE WATER FLOWING.

1) So...am I doing this correctly?
2) How long do I keep my powerfilters fliter-pads out?

[tims]

hehe just leave it be, in time your tank, the LR and everythng will be covered and you will be scrappign to see the corals by then.

but yes using a razor blade or Credit crad is a good way of scraping the sides. where it lands it usally will grow

[Geoff]

just scraping the corraline releases spores into the water column. these spores will find barren places on the glass/LR and start growing.

yes, you are doing it right.

G~