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09/12/2007, 06:01 PM
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I wonder……
OK You know you have one. A question or something you wonder about relating to this wonderful reefing hobby and you just can’t seem to find an answer for it and really not worth the effort to do a good search on or start a thread about. But still you wonder……
I’ll start it off with this – why ‘o why does the coralline algae always start to grow in the corners of my glass? I keep it just as clean as the rest of the glass!! Why can’t it start in the center?  That’s what I’ve been wondering about!!  Jay
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09/12/2007, 06:32 PM
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Maybe it is just trying to be polite and stay out of your viewing area as long as possible??
 (and my real guess is something to do with flow in a 90* corner)
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09/12/2007, 07:21 PM
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Well, it is in all corners as I look. It is just an average rectangular tank. I have a MJ mod and a CL and I think I have about 3600 – 3800 gph turn over so good flow but maybe you are correct due to the corners. I’ll increase the flow to a corner and see if that works. Really just kind of made me go “huh” when I just cleaned of the stuff a few days ago!!
Mykel Obvious - I wish I had thought of a user’s name like that!!  Hey, I love this one: “Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves” - Brendan Behan Jay
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09/13/2007, 03:14 PM
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cuold be that the corners trap more flow and /or more stagnent and allow it to grow there first.
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09/13/2007, 08:31 PM
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Could also be that the calcium and/or magnesium are heavier than the water and get trapped there by the flow.
Here's a question that I found the answer to Sunday night. DO gobies poop in their caves? No. My YWG never leaves the safety of his cave unless he's real hungry during feeding time. Sunday after dinner... he came all the way out to the middle of the tank and "dropped the kids off at the pool" and then backed up back to his cave.
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09/13/2007, 08:47 PM
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09/13/2007, 09:57 PM
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It's because you clean the rest of your glass real well with the algae magnet, it wipes the spores off before you can see noticable coralline growth. Thats why it grows on the back glass and not the front too.
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09/13/2007, 11:10 PM
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LobsterOfJustice – Thanks! That makes since. I was scrapping that stuff today and snapped off a bunch of coral! Makes good frags though!
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