Coraline Algae

[Cramz07]

I've had my tank for 8 months and i don't have any coraline algae on the glass? Is this a bad sign or what?

[BLKTANG]

Yes my tank is not even 2 months old,& i have alot of it already.Check your calcium level.

What kind of light,flow do you have.

[tanker]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11843903#post11843903 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BLKTANG
Yes my tank is not even 2 months old,& i have alot of it already.Check your calcium level.

What kind of light,flow do you have.

And your ALK.

[Cramz07]

My levels are all normal i don't know my calcium i don't supplement and i have 130watt pc over it

[Mavrk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11843881#post11843881 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Cramz07
I've had my tank for 8 months and i don't have any coraline algae on the glass? Is this a bad sign or what?

That depends. Are you keeping corals? If not, you probably are not keeping track of your calcium and magnesium (hopefully you are watching your alkalinity). You say there is none on the glass, but is there some on the rocks? It will usually grow on anything plastic first (including acrylic). If you scrape it off it will spread. Besides, you probably clean your glass, so it can't take hold.

As long as your livestock is healthy then I don't think that a lack of coralline is bad. Let us know your parameters and we can help you out better.

[Cramz07]

my alk is perfect as well as ph, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, and my salinity is good. I have about 40 lbs of live rock with coraline covered all over it and then another 50-60 that i bought from someone that has a little bit if any at all.

[Larah]

I duuno why but I have a lot of corraline growing on some large shells I threw in for decoration...
I don't have any on the galss either.. But man are those shells covered!

[Larah]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11844111#post11844111 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Cramz07
my alk is perfect as well as ph, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, and my salinity is good. I have about 40 lbs of live rock with coraline covered all over it and then another 50-60 that i bought from someone that has a little bit if any at all.

What are the actual readings? Perfect is relative.....

[Reef of Eden]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11844034#post11844034 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Cramz07
My levels are all normal i don't know my calcium i don't supplement and i have 130watt pc over it thi could possibly be your problem.

130watt on a 55 gal, seems a little weak to me.

[Mavrk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11844034#post11844034 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Cramz07
My levels are all normal i don't know my calcium i don't supplement and i have 130watt pc over it

I just noticed that your current tank shows as a reef. Does this mean you have coral? If so you should be testing for calcium, alkalinity, and magnesium. Coralline likes the same levels of these parametes as do regular corals. If your calcium and magnesium are low, then this could attribute to the lack of coralline spread.

As for the lights, I don't think coralline really needs much light to grow, but it probably spreads faster with more intense lighting. Speaking of lighting, it is probably time to change the bulbs if they are 8 month old PCs.

[welcome]

[ahullsb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11844249#post11844249 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mavrk
I just noticed that your current tank shows as a reef. Does this mean you have coral? If so you should be testing for calcium, alkalinity, and magnesium. Coralline likes the same levels of these parametes as do regular corals. If your calcium and magnesium are low, then this could attribute to the lack of coralline spread.

As for the lights, I don't think coralline really needs much light to grow, but it probably spreads faster with more intense lighting. Speaking of lighting, it is probably time to change the bulbs if they are 8 month old PCs.

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What he said. If any of the three ( CA, ALK, Mg, ) levels are off, chances are you won't see any coralline.

[eran]

dose b-ionic and it will explode

[Cramz07]

the bulbs have been changed about a month ago and i have a lot of live rock so my "reef" or my begining of a reef tank has everything about no more than a foot from the light and everything is low light hardy stuff. I have higher lighting but running it w/o the corals that need the higher lighting is a waste of energy so once I have the money and start buying other corals i won't run the MH.

[rlm2005]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11844500#post11844500 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Cramz07
the bulbs have been changed about a month ago and i have a lot of live rock so my "reef" or my begining of a reef tank has everything about no more than a foot from the light and everything is low light hardy stuff. I have higher lighting but running it w/o the corals that need the higher lighting is a waste of energy so once I have the money and start buying other corals i won't run the MH.
What would be helpful is to know what you do have in the tank. What is the everything that is no more than a foot from the light?

[Cramz07]

i have a colt coral, neon green star polyp, striped mushrooms, BTA, and a Hatian, i have a perc, fiji tomato clown, 2 stripped damsals, 6-line, lawnmower blenny, a red starfish, and a candycane shrimp