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 Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:56 am Post subject: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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I have about 20kg of LR and 20KG of MMLR my tank is more then a Year old now
I just waned to know What is the best way to encourage coralline algae on MMLR i have nice corallline growth on my LR and even have few patches on MMLR .... |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:00 am Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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Keep the phospates and niterites low.
some people use purple up. |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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| Take a 2 Litre plastic coke bottle. Fill with distilled or RO water (RO is better). Add 2 table spoons of magnesium sulphate and 1 Tea spoon of calcium hydroxide . Let it dissolve properly and then add about 100ml of this every other day to the tank.. its called Purple up ! |
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suneeshkachroo
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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Take a 2 Litre plastic coke bottle. Fill with distilled or RO water (RO is better). Add 2 table spoons of magnesium sulphate and 1 Tea spoon of calcium hydroxide . Let it dissolve properly and then add about 100ml of this every other day to the tank.. its called Purple up
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i m dosing Kalkwasser with Iodine during every top off twice a week ..... |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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| vicky88_nofear wrote (View Post):
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Take a 2 Litre plastic coke bottle. Fill with distilled or RO water (RO is better). Add 2 table spoons of magnesium sulphate and 1 Tea spoon of calcium hydroxide . Let it dissolve properly and then add about 100ml of this every other day to the tank.. its called Purple up !
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Are you sure Magnesium Sulphate ? not Chloride ? |
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suneeshkachroo
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:23 pm Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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I m sure about Magnesium sulphate ... it a Aqua Pharma bottle and have gt some good results out of it .....
But reletivly slow growth... |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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I use Magnesium sulphate and Calcium hydroxide (kalkwasser) regulerly to promote coralline. Keeping magnesium at 1400ppm will encourage coralline algae growth but calcium also will need to be at 350-400ppm. I do however have a very purple tank and not sure if it is to everyone's taste 
The dosage however needs to carefully administered if you already have live corals in the tank as overdosing can cause them to bleach and also cause fluctuations in PH.. though Kalkwasser is not a very strong PH increasing agent but it is something that can cause problems.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:10 am Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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Thanx Nim ......
This make me realise what are the right water parameters for Coraline algae growth ................ |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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Well its not really tough !! ..
Dose Kalwasser and Magnesium and iodine and strontium. Keep lightings Dim and preferably more actinic if you do not have a higher kelvin light. High flow rate is also extremely essential 8 or 10 times the water volume atleast. Lastly keep the water well areated. Perform Water changes once a month atleast 30%. This should get you some good coraline growth. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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| vicky88_nofear wrote (View Post):
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Take a 2 Litre plastic coke bottle. Fill with distilled or RO water (RO is better). Add 2 table spoons of magnesium sulphate and 1 Tea spoon of calcium hydroxide . Let it dissolve properly and then add about 100ml of this every other day to the tank.. its called Purple up !
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That turly is not purple up, you will need to add iodine, strontium, mollybodium and a lot of other trace elements to make it into purple up.
Those 2 are just some of the components of purple up ...unless thats your definition of purple up and not Caribsea / Seachems. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:05 am Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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Does anyone know the actual contents of purple up? I am sure it does have those trace elements as well but it would be good to know if the manufacturer has released any data on this (though a bit unlikely else there would have been competition)
I have however had great success with dosing kalkwasser and magnesium sulphate but I dont dose any of the others. But I do use a good quality synthetic salt that is already enriched with all trace elements including calcium and magnesium.
Coralline does however need a lot of light and a lot of flow. I did not think 10x the flow would be enough as my tank currently has 75-80x the flow (yes I mean 70 & 80) along with 3WPG of light 50% of which are blue actinic bulbs.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:02 am Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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| @ nash81, i ment to say those mixture is more than enough to make your tank glow in purple. I dont know the real contents of Purple-Up tho. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:18 am Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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Hi Nim.
Which brand of synthetic salt are you using? |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject: Re: Best way to encourage coralline algae |
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HI Amit, I am using Reef crystals... I dont know what all is available in India though.
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