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Coffeeinbed
11/04/2016, 07:07 PM
hi all
What's the lowest kelvin temp for coraline algae growth?
thanks
Timfish
11/04/2016, 07:37 PM
Sunlight is 5500K. Probably depends some on species (color).
2smokes
11/04/2016, 08:51 PM
From what ive experienced the purple corraline grows better with a light that is of higher kelvin(more blue) and the green corraline grows best at more yellow light,lower K.
Coffeeinbed
11/04/2016, 09:43 PM
Thanks for the input guys.
Years ago I a had a MH/actinic setup and it grew coraline much better than my current LED 12K/420 lighting.
I've also switched from Coral Pro to IO -and since the switch- everything is better. However the coraline is painfully slow. I thought about switching back to 6500k/actinic lighting.
2smokes
11/04/2016, 09:54 PM
The secret of growing coraline is to have no phosphates leaching from the rocks.For that you need a stable and higher PH and alk.
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