[chinesebunny]

What kind of urchins did you have?

[glampka]

Elliot, you obviously have the coralline algae that grows just on glass. You need to go to your lfs & see if they have the variety that grows on rocks.

[e_baer]

hmmm, must be a new type of algae!


i have a black rock urchin, hairy pincishion, and a pencil. i only have the black rock in my 55 right now. but i cant seem to find him......hmmmm.

[WILLIAM1]

Have you bought LR before with some algae on it and place it in the tank. Did it disapear or was it not LR you put in.

[e_baer]

i got 80 lbs of carribean live rock form liveaquaria.

it came load with the algae. all was good, then for some reason, the algae never grew and kinda dicipated, now it is all over the glass but not the rocks!

[jvharding]

Ok maybe I missed this but can I ask what spectrum your lights are in? it just may be a matter of making a lighting change in spectrum Usually high antinics produce well

[e_baer]

4 65w 12k ans 2 65w actinics.

[Lowej82]

with 4 x 96 watts what would be the near perfect spectrum?

for all growth & looks.

[e_baer]

honestly, thinking of what VAMNA would say,

1-10000k

1-actinic

2-6500k

[Lowej82]

see I was thinking something like that

1 12000K

1 6700K

1 actinic

& wasnt sure to get another 6700k or actinic here

[e_baer]

6700k id say

[Banshee]

Just wondering did you ever check your mag lvl's ?Also are you using any type of a two part system like B-ionic?

[401jas]

Oh, if you want your coraline to TAKE OFF pick up a piece of your LR with coraline on it and run a serated knife up and down on the coraline. You'll notice that tiny particals will break off. I like to do this to my favorite kinds of coraline (the dark red).

I have done this many times and you will notice a coraline OUTBRAKE in about a week or two provided you calcium, mag, ph, alk are in check.

Oh and it seems that the lighter pink coraline loves to grow on glass. The dark red coraline doesn't grown on my glass at all, neither does the darker pink coraline.

Anyway, good luck!

Jason

[Lowej82]

now I have some very deep dark purple, light purple, pink, bright green, dark green, turqoius, & red looks like the dark purple and bright green are gonna be the more dominate color's.

[e_baer]

yeah, i have a bunch of the green, and whenever i take pics of my tank, it looks like it is hair algae. i dont like it at all!

[dinor2]

That looks about the same color algae I just noticed growing on my sand only; I wonder if it is the flow of the water that determines where this grows...

Dana

[jimw369]

Originally Posted by jvharding

Ok maybe I missed this but can I ask what spectrum your lights are in? it just may be a matter of making a lighting change in spectrum Usually high antinics produce well

BINGO!!!!!

[dinor2]

All I know about my lights is that they're made by Current, one dual actinic 65W and one 10,000 daylight 65W...

I would like to up my lighting a BIT, just temporarily until next Christmas or so; is there a single strip light, T5 or another HO I can just add to my lights now? Or would it be more worth my $ to just upgrade? I'm looking to just upgrade my lights enough to have 3W/gal in my 55gal.... since we're talking about lights and all! *(I may have missed this answer too!).


Dana

[dinor2]

OH ya, I have the blues come on for 2 hours, then the daylights with blues for 8 hours, then just blues for another 2 hours...

Also, may be the amount of sand I have; I have about 1" in some spots and bare in others so adding more sand today. Guess this hobby is about trying things till you find what works sometimes, just glad I only have pods and cleaning crew in there now, no fish or inverts yet!

Dana