purple up?
 

ive heard of a product called purple up made by caribsea its supposed to be real good for live rock corals and just the overall water quality of a tank any thoughts or experiences before i buy this and start to use it?:wink:

Purple up
 

I use it and I love it..works well for me...:biggrin:

Looks like Purple Up is just a calcium suppliment geared towards growing coraline algae. I doubt it would do anything for other water parameters like Phosphates, Nitrates, etc etc.

Quote from the bottle: (Unique dual method approach to coralline algae acceleration. 1. Ionic calcium: Immediately raises dissolved calcium levels in your aquarium water. 2. 10 micron aragonite: Targets the live rock surface, where it dissolves in situ, delivering calcium, strontium, magnesium, and carbonate right where it is needed. It also replenishes iodine.)
Hope that helps.

If you have good water quality and a little coraline on the rocks you will be scraping it off the glass in no time. If you want to do anything to improve your coraline as a local reefer to scrape some of their coraline off the glass into a bag then dump it in your tank.

Save your money and use it to buy a magnetic scraper to get rid of coraline instead.

i use it for calcium, it's great, quite potent though, and from what I see it's great for coralline growth, my back and side panels are smothered:mrgreen:

my back and side panels are covered and i've never dosed anything..its crazy

ya i gotta admit, i've been dosing calcium, alkalinity buffer, strontium, and all that stuff ever since i started

I've used it for quite a while and been very happy with it. It works well and is well priced. Make sure when you buy it that it hasn't solidified on the bottom.

I did read something somewhere bad things can happen when you stop using it, but never found any truth to it.

ok i bought the purple up how often should i dose it? my tank is only 5 weeks old any thoughts?