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11/10/2007, 03:54 PM
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Coraline Algea concerns.
I have been unable to rebuild my coraline algea, any ideas why I lost the majority of it? All my levels are good although my calcuim reactor was out of balance for about a month and held my level at about 325 or lower. It is back up to 400-420 now. Mag. 1300 KH 9-10, phosphate was up but I put in a reactor and it doesn't even register now. PH monitor is always good mid day about 8.24. It was all over the glass and hase since turned white.
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11/10/2007, 03:59 PM
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What color coraline? Purple? I see you have MH's - I've never had good luck getting purple stuff to grow under intense lighting, gets overgrown by green encrusting algae, but grows great under lower lighting.
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11/10/2007, 04:05 PM
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I did add a second 250 watt MH as I am going to more SPS than LPS. The coraline was purple. The SPS's are doing good but my bubble coral is not happy with the new lighting.
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11/10/2007, 04:15 PM
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Bubble corals don't ussualy like extreamly intense light, can you get it some shade? Or move it off center, of the MH's, to the bottom of the tank?
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11/10/2007, 04:25 PM
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I did for a week or so with no noticable effect I will try longer this time. Additionally do you have a recommendation of an algea that will flourish under intense lighting. I do have a few small patch of the green but slow growing and I would like some on the glass.
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11/10/2007, 04:48 PM
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Almost definitely the light addition. Just adding a 65W 10k PC bulb on my 10G killed off most of the purple coralline (except the stuff underneath rocks). Some of it will probably recover in a few weeks, mine is recovering. Purple coralline does have difficulty in high lighting, though. Just keep the parameters stable and it will return (probably more than you want
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11/10/2007, 04:53 PM
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