Gregcoyote
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It likes to grow on things electrically charged. Would make a good experiment. We need a aquarium "Mythbusters."
It probably has more to do with the type of coralline you have in your tank... All this debate over light/low light of this parameter/that parameter... It's like saying, We all have the same parameters why is my fish dieing but yours is thriving? I have algae everywhere just like you but your fish is fat and mine looks like it is going to die. The answer is the same for both the fish and the coralline, it's a different type. One guy has a Yellow Tang and the other has a Golden Butterflyfish.LOL! I agree! Its funny to read the people that can't kill it and the ones that grow it and everybodys params are the same. There is a lot of luck involved
Prove it....its a lie unless u can show me such a unit
Sarcothelia said:I love purple up, but the stupid coralline just grows in hordes on the glass and not the rocks >>
dabeyta3 said:Yes, I've kind of come to the conclusion that the shimmer effect creates a quick absence of light which coraline likes. I do think though a little of everything plays into it, but the shimmer effect definitely makes a difference. Coraline can be easily out competed by other algae, maybe that's why 0 nitrate and phosphate help as well. I once saw a MAJOR bloom of coraline in a tank full of hair algae just before it crashed. I think the hair algae out competed all other algae and created a zero nitrate and phosphate condition. Then coraline went crazy, but soon after the tank crashed and almost everything died. To bad they didn't have bio plastics back then.