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Old 07-19-2014, 04:52 PM
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Its called coraline algea grows with when calcium, alk and the paramaters are in check, it takes a while to grow and get re-etablished if you moved or changed tanks
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Old 07-19-2014, 04:56 PM
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purple up will accelerate the process ...
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Urchins will eat it. Stock lots of urchins. Hate that purple crap!
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How do you like red or green coraline?
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Urchins will eat it. Stock lots of urchins. Hate that purple crap!
eats up your calcium , ruins your liverock , runins your equipment , ruins your glass, tiresome to scrape....and the list goes on.

not what i consider a "desirable algae " lol
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Old 07-19-2014, 09:21 PM
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eats up your calcium , ruins your liverock , runins your equipment , ruins your glass, tiresome to scrape....and the list goes on.

not what i consider a "desirable algae " lol
Zactly!! Awful stuff.
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Yep im in same opinion don't like it. Thankfully I have trouble growing it
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I actually like it. Lol. Looks cool. Ppl that doesn't no saltwater always ask me y my rock is purple or is it fake lol
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