i am not seeing much growth could be caused by not having enough light. I only have 2 regular (fresh water) lights on there till fri or sat. I will be getting T5 will that help or does it just take longer than i am thinking. my tank has been set up for about a month now.
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Yes, it takes longer then 1 month but it will help that you have the T-5's going on. Coralline will not grow under NO (like what you had) lights very well. You will need to keep you calcium up, and have some sort of coralline on your rocks for it to spread. If you do not have any coralline on the rocks, you might want to "seed" some from someones tank. You will see MUCH faster growth that way!
I have about 25lb of base and 25 of live the coralline that is there looks good a couple different colors of red and some green it just does not seem to be spreading to the base rock. I guess I just need to give it some more time and with the new lights hopefully I will see some growth.
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its just the lights that your useing and you probably dont have enough calcium in the tank
You don't need bright lights depending of the strain. Some strains actually grow fast under NO lights. A good example is my algae is a great indicator of when it is time to change bulbs. When my dark purple starts taking off, my lights have started to fade. When I throw new ones in, the dark purple turns white and the light purple makes a surge.
Calcium and Alkalinity balanced will give you optimum growth. I would shoot for 400ppm calcium and around 10dkh alkalinity.
Nitrates and phosphates... keep them low... very low.
Flow... you need at least 5x turnover in the tank and there doesn't seem to be a max limit.
Lastly salinity, temp and pH. Keeping them stable seems to be the most important but shoot for a salinity around 1.024, temp around 80 and a pH around 8.2.
The first month is the seeding time with new tiny specs forming on rock and glass. You should start to see small dots appearing on your glass in the second month. By the third if settings are good in your tank, you will probably be scraping it off of some places.
Calcium and Alkalinity balanced will give you optimum growth. I would shoot for 400ppm calcium and around 10dkh alkalinity.
Nitrates and phosphates... keep them low... very low.
Flow... you need at least 5x turnover in the tank and there doesn't seem to be a max limit.
Lastly salinity, temp and pH. Keeping them stable seems to be the most important but shoot for a salinity around 1.024, temp around 80 and a pH around 8.2.
The first month is the seeding time with new tiny specs forming on rock and glass. You should start to see small dots appearing on your glass in the second month. By the third if settings are good in your tank, you will probably be scraping it off of some places.
