Brownish yellow Rocks

[subman]

Originally Posted by Northernseacorals

You want coralline now......

I will tell you that I cannot stand coralline algae, it's a pain to keep in check

Oh how I would like to give you all mine lol

+1 I wanted coraline algae so bad in the beginning..... now.....I can't stand it lol

[cale262]

What are you keeping your calcium level at? Depending on your ca level and the quality of your seed rock you should see a lot more coralline IME.

In my last build I also used Marco and LR at a 50/50 ratio, I kept my ca at about 450 and after four months my tank was swamped in coralline. If you want to speed the process up, you can just take a nice piece of purple rock and scrape the coralline off with a sharp edge letting the scrapings fall into your display tank, keep you levels good and in no time at all youll be scraping it off the glass on a weekly basis.

Day one.


Seed rock mixed into Marco rock.


One month, the Marco started to speckle with coralline.


Two months, there wasn't much white rock visible.


Four months. Coralline everywhere.

[molotov]

I understand there are different types/colours of coraline algea. The rocks I bought to seed with had a nice deep purple colour and are full of coraline. I was hoping that if I was going to get coraline that it would be a different colour than the brown.

I'm starting to think now that it could be a diatom bloom although my sand is in perfect condition. I'll try to get some pics up today and let you guys be the judge of what's going on.