fastest way to produce coraline

[ace1204]

Ok so i have a 20 long packed with fiji and mixed rock, i have a heater set to 76 degrees a maxijet 900 at one end and an aquaclear 50 at the other end for filtration and circulation, light is just a super old power compact daylight. Im dosing purple up nightly and just wondering if there is anything else i should be doing i want to get this rock colored up for my seahorse project soon to come. Do i need to set a lighting cycle? Is a certain PAR needed to obtain coraline. Thanks

 

[drnecropolis]

Scrape some off a rock and let it float in the water and it will spread

 

[stickx911]

seed by scraping some of your current Coraline...just thought I'd throw that out there. Every time I scrape the sides of my glass, it grows back 10 fold...so I figure it'd do the same on rock.

 

[blind1993]

i will give you a bunch of coraline sheets that i can scrape of the back wall of my tank, if you bring the phone to my house when you get the storm.

 

[dannybradley]

Test and adjust these elements to about these levels:

Magnesium: 1300-1400ppm
Calcium: 400-450ppm
dKH: 8-10ppm
pH: 8.3-8.4

You'll also need iodine and strontium at proper levels(I2: .06mg/l, Sr: 8ppm), but your salt mix should be enough to provide that.

Coraline is an algae and needs light to grow, but I've grown plenty in dim tanks. The circulation will help.

 

[markl]

buy one of my tanks.

 

[ldybkr]

Mark (flying army) has plenty.

 

[casper75]

take and run your actinics on 24-7 for 4 weeks then start backing the lighting down 1 hr a day till you get the light cycle where you want it.

 

[stickx911]

ares;237826 wrote: purple up isnt all its cracked up to be.

try more traditional supplements to be sure everything is getting to where it needs to be.

I liked it, but it killed my PH. I couldn't keep PH above 8 w/ purple up.