My tank has been up for more then three years now an i would like to have more colors on my rocks (purple) any one have ideas ? My lighting are 3 months old now i have 65x2 30 inch lighting 2 blue 2 white.Ive used purple up an others . Any ideas ????
you got to have to put hermit crabs , they will help to clean all the dirty stuff on all the rocks, give it some times and u will see the color on those livesrocks
i have hermits!!! over 100 tiney ones and acople 20 or more middle size blue legs no joke i got them in the ocean shoures. my tanks 3 years old my lights have been upgraded resenty and still no luck with nice colors on my rocks 30 65x2 2 blues 2 whites waters allways good water changes weekly any one use any other cemickels ????? please help??????
hi there, firstly in order for the coralline crustose algae you want to flourish, you need to have it present in the tank, the other replies you have been given are good, you need to keep green algae at bay inorder for the purple algae to take hold so cleanup crews are a must. Purple up i use and its doin well and my tank is brand new only a couple of weeks. stick to your parameters that you need. hope that helps or tells you something new
get better lights you only have 3.1 watts per gallon in your tank and by the looks of it, it is a tall so the light is having trouble getting to the bottom. but thats only one opinion
i agree with donavan for small tanks i would use a 2 part calcium / alkalinity. i would check your calcium. stop adding every thing else{small amounts of iodine} but test your water outside of basic test kits
iv been doin saltwater for 5 years, the first 3 years i had no coraline and got pissed. Well thats what i got the salt setup for, color. 2 years ago i started testing. i ran a 30 gal with normal sp 0.021, i put 10lb lr in and tested. About 5 weeks into it i had blue and purple dominating. i found out you need a heavy growth of green algea to grow coraline. i found out the best way to grow the green algea in salt(with out a bloom), is to add doses of freshwater plant ferilizer. just 1 dose the first week, and wait bout 4 weeks and add anouther. the purple and deep turquois will eat the green algea. once you see the coroline covering a few rocks stop adding the fert, the coroline will take over. make sure you watch the ph.
what ??? plant fertilizer full of nitrogen+phosphates stuff like that . i dont know if i would do that ... never heard of that with perfect water and the right lights you should have coraline in 3 to 4 months ...what is the long term effect of plant fertilizer and coral growth/ health. sounds like a disaster to me..
so far its worked for me. i do normal waterchanges, and check levels, truthfuly i haven't had any major problems. like i said, ph is the only thing realy effected, and it wasn't dramatic. the stuff i use is Plant Gro, im not trying to screw anyone over with bad advice. im just saying it worked for me.
