how to encrust your LRs with coralline =)

[somebody]

how how??

tips? hehe....

[Terryz_]

Keep your KH and Ca at the desired level should do the job... And blast blue light should be able to grow coraline... but will still take sometime... correct me if i am wrong..

[Alvin Tan]

look out for ur magnesium....maintain it as the destinated level and it coralines algae shld be able to encrust..

[somebody]

do we need to "seed" the stack of rocks, with a rock full of coralline?

[shoelevy]

i would agree with terryz

and add good current flow to the list

i would like to share with you some nice corraline growth photo from my tank

this one took about 6mths to form up...its about 3cm across

if u take a look at the 2nd picture on the right side u'll see another colony of coralline starting to encrust also...that one i think is about 2mths old...i think given more time and high Ca and kh and mg it'll become like the much more developed one

also, 1 thing to add on is that i only notice such growth under my blue 20kk bulb...so far i haven't seen coralline growth like this under the other 10kk bulb...so i'd say blue light is good for coralline

[somebody]

fwah... the other time i also saw in one of the reefers tank,

the coralline looked like flower sia..

but no lahz, not really loking to encrust until so nice, just want my rocks to be purple, white very ugly... =(

[Terryz_]

Nice coralline... Dun have so nice ones... lol... But the thing that caught my eye is the yellow zoos... lol..

[shoelevy]

oh...lol...that rock os zoos is BIG

like 20-25cm long and 10cm wide

i think when got time someone can teach me how to frag it then can distribute to others...and that zoo grows quite fast...its the only zoo colony in my tank that captures food like mysis and brine during feeding time to eat...pretty unique and resilient i must say

[somebody]

fwah! put me on the list for a frag pleasee!!!! =) how it capture ah?? so cool.. ermm.. but a bit sidetrack. nvm, my thread. hehe...

[Terryz_]

Me too... lol... super rare to see that kind of colors... lol...

[sunny03]

almark that are those so call

"red people eater"

[valerossi]

U require Blue light to do this job

[somebody]

hmm.. maybe i shall fire up the tank with only actinics for a few wks, to get the coralline going. haha..

[Terryz_]

almark that are those so call

"red people eater"

Those are red PPE?? Looks yellow in the photo...

[Terryz_]

hmm.. maybe i shall fire up the tank with only actinics for a few wks, to get the coralline going. haha..

If not wrong... as long as got blue light they will grow...

[sunny03]

Those are red PPE?? Looks yellow in the photo...

you can ask the owner lol

hahha

[valerossi]

But all this will take time

[somebody]

but need "seeding" or not ah?

[somebody]

but will too much actinic be bad for fishes?

[Terryz_]

but need "seeding" or not ah?

Dun think need... lol...

[Terryz_]

but will too much actinic be bad for fishes?

Dun think will be bad for the fishes... Wouldnt be too much affected by the lighting bah..

[valerossi]

Fish won't be affected by Blue light.....

Actually fish doesn't require much light....but coral required light...

Blue light is okie....

[valerossi]

There actually another way- Take a live rock with coralline and place next with a normal LRs.

[somebody]

so seeding would help>??

[ervine]

for me what I did last time was to scrape old coraline algae from the glass of my old tank... seemed to work well..