purple up?

[chevyjaxon]

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?

[dsaundry]

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

[mr_alberta]

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.

[Lance]

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.

[Shipwreck]

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.

[bv_reefer]

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

[adidas]

Originally Posted by bv_reefer

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

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

[bv_reefer]

Originally Posted by adidas

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

[DanG]

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.

[chevyjaxon]

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