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01/19/2019, 03:41 AM | #1 |
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Coraline question
A few years back when I bought most of my live rock it was covered in irridecent blue, irridesent green &dark purple corraline. Now the beautiful but much more common purple/pink corraline is taking over. How would I encourage the other stuff to come back? specific supplements? Lighting change or both?
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01/19/2019, 06:52 AM | #2 |
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Have to have a seed source of the other types for it to show up.
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01/27/2019, 04:40 PM | #4 |
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That sounds like amazing corraline algae! Worth fighting for! If a lesser one encroaches, why not do what you'd do with with any other unwanted algae? Remove it. Choose your weapon and defend the irridecents!
Calcium input should also help, but also helps the pink stuff. Maybe look at the ones that are doing the best, and try to move others to similar conditions of light and current. I'd love to see pics of this stuff!
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