FBTennisNumberOne
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Apr 25, 2008
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Hey im pretty new to the forum and i had a couple questions.
I work at a local fish store and have or about 4 months.
I keep a 10 gallon nano reef at home with mushroom corals...just fyi
Some of the Coraline Algae on the live rocks that we have in our main display tank are dying....
the nice purple is turning white...
Im not really sure why...everything in the tank has been fine for 3 years now....but just recently like the last 3 weeks i have been noticing alot of die off..
the only thing i can think of if when i have taken some live rock out to clean some algae off and do a light gravel vac of the sand.... maybe its dying becuase it is out of the water? (no more that 45 minutes at a time)
but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because we get new shipments of live rock all the time and it has been out of the water for awhile....and it still has some healthy coraline algae growth...
i only have about a year of saltwater under my belt so im just looking for some insight as to why my coraline algae is dying...
what minerals do u need for good coraline growth?
Calcium?
Thanks in advance
Tyler
I work at a local fish store and have or about 4 months.
I keep a 10 gallon nano reef at home with mushroom corals...just fyi
Some of the Coraline Algae on the live rocks that we have in our main display tank are dying....
the nice purple is turning white...
Im not really sure why...everything in the tank has been fine for 3 years now....but just recently like the last 3 weeks i have been noticing alot of die off..
the only thing i can think of if when i have taken some live rock out to clean some algae off and do a light gravel vac of the sand.... maybe its dying becuase it is out of the water? (no more that 45 minutes at a time)
but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because we get new shipments of live rock all the time and it has been out of the water for awhile....and it still has some healthy coraline algae growth...
i only have about a year of saltwater under my belt so im just looking for some insight as to why my coraline algae is dying...
what minerals do u need for good coraline growth?
Calcium?
Thanks in advance
Tyler