Red coralline growth is good or bad?

[shoelevy]

hi guys, recently i've got red coralline popping up

i mean like ang pao red...extremely contrasting with the common purple ones we find on most liverocks

question is is this some bad sign of poor water quality or its a good indicator?

[prec]

as long as they are coralline its fine.. i have a patch of bright red coralline too at only one part of the rocks.. and another patch of fiery orange.. the rest are purple.

[shoelevy]

thanks dude

[Panzz]

yea there are many different colours of coralline so don worry.

for me I too have red, the purple ones, pink and much more but all coralline.

[colinsoon]

i cant get my coralline to grow... how long does it take to grow?

[Panzz]

it depends, someone I think even waited for almost a year to see coralline algae growing, but so as long as you know your water quality is good you don have to worry, it is just a matter of time before they start blooming.

and by the way when they start blooming, I really mean blooming cos they can grow really fast and spread really fast!

[nicholas_yeo]

hi colinsoon,

U can speed up your coraline algae growth quite easily. I use Seachem Reef Complete and Reef builder to dose on alternate days. It will give a pretty stable calcium, carbon hardness with a proportion of magnesium and strontium.

U also need a good dosage of actinice lights. I put 2 tubes of T8 under my 2ft tank at 12 hrs. Make sure u get those good ones than span 420nm is the best... (appear slightly purplish). The usual is 450nm which is pure blue.... I find those hard to cultivate coraline algae....

[colinsoon]

i have no idea which bandwidth my blue lights are at... i am using T5 14W blue actinics, 12 bucks a tube at reborn kind... anyway the speed up coralline growth, need to blast the blue lights only or can switch both on at the same time...?

[Maverick77]

What do u guys define coralline algae? DOes it mean those that stick to rocks like a coating? I always tot coralline are only purple...

[laona]

hi guys...Happi CNY...

anyway newbie question...wat does e coraline algae does anyway...hehehe..there is a thread on it..hehehe...might as well ask!! hahaha...saw some use LR wif really red coraline algae on sale at pasir ris...hahaha...those interested can go there...

[colinsoon]

that was like half a month ago bro... might already be gone by now... nvr check anyhow give directions, later the bros here go up there dun haf u kanna hum tum den u know... haha...

[laona]

hahaha....aiyah...jus stating mah...i mean first time see whole rock full of coraline algae..majiam like they dip it in red paint..!! yeh..realli!! its at 2 pasir ris farmway 2..e store nxt to e one e seller is closing down...yeh...hahaha...sorri for lack of info...or misinfo

[colinsoon]

hahaha....aiyah...jus stating mah...i mean first time see whole rock full of coraline algae..majiam like they dip it in red paint..!! yeh..realli!! its at 2 pasir ris farmway 2..e store nxt to e one e seller is closing down...yeh...hahaha...sorri for lack of info...or misinfo

or initially cosing down. the very nice owner, felix, decided to continue, but with betas only. no more marine... another misinfo by laona... hahaha...

[laona]

oei oei...hahaha....yeh...miss that out...hahaha..sigh...

[alien07]

is it coraline or cyno bacteria?

[wil_lee76]

guys, maybe if you would like us to ID those stuffs, maye u can post pcis and let us assist you.

ailen is right, dun get mistaken by cyano outbreak and coraline alage.

coraline alage spread very fast, with boost of actnic blue and with stable water parameters, you can have a "purple" hill soonz..just be patient and let them blooom....