Coraline growth

[Gizmo]

One Word: Magnesium

I had my tank running for 3 years w/o coralline, After a visit to Bev's place, and the talk I got about no one measuring or adding magnesium to their tank, I got going on it. Within one month I have a huge patch of it on the back of my tank where the water flow is the strongest. MAGNESIUM! - Thanks Bev

[Beverly]

Giz,

OMGosh! My name and magnesium in the same sentence And in a thread where Willow has posted That's just going to tick him off again

Willow,

Sorry to poke fun at you, but it's just too easy not to sometimes

Anyway, time to be serious. Who makes purple up and what's in it?

[Quagmire]

http://www.mops.ca/cgi-bin/SoftCart.....asp?E+scstore

Purple up

[Beverly]

Thanks for the link

[TheReefGeek]

Anyone get good results from it, or is it just a waste of money?

[DanG]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

Anyone get good results from it, or is it just a waste of money?

I've been using it for about 2 weeks now. I've noticed quite a bit more coraline lately. Some of the new patches are about as big as a quarter.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

One Word: Magnesium

I had my tank running for 3 years w/o coralline, After a visit to Bev's place, and the talk I got about no one measuring or adding magnesium to their tank, I got going on it. Within one month I have a huge patch of it on the back of my tank where the water flow is the strongest. MAGNESIUM! - Thanks Bev

Ok, forget Mg, his level is fine, one thing I noticed is the Ca level is way to high, try slowly dropping your Ca to about 400ppm and maintain it there.

another thing is Alk, what is 4.5 Meq in normal measurements? I keep mine up around 11Dkh.

isn't it funny I have been touting the merits of Mg for about 3 or 4 years now and Bev starts last year and is famous for it

Steve

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

isn't it funny I have been touting the merits of Mg for about 3 or 4 years now and Bev starts last year and is famous for it

Steve,

I hardly ever have original ideas I must have picked up the Mg thing from you and simply ran with it Thanks for being such a good mentor

[McNasty]

I do not dose calcium, but i use a kalkwaser reactor to keep my alk and ph stable seems to keep a higher calcium yet it does not precipitate (snow) Mag I seem to have to drip every second day or it drops to fast to replenish, I tried purple up and not ticed no difference, I am wondering if it has to do with the blue back color i painted in the tank, Perhaps if i painted it blackl it would be better.

Coraline that does start growing in the tank will allways go white on me, so I am at a loss how some popel grow it like crazy and some people cant..like me LOL

[G1GY]

I had coraline growing in layered plates until I got an emerald crab.

Now only one coraline plate remains on a powerhead bracket. (The little monster can't get at it.)