Your
Ca looks high compared to your
Alk. Should shoot for
Ca around 450 and an
alk between 9 & 11. I've heard that doing a little scraping of your coraline will cause the spores to spread to other rocks. I've had to do nothing other than keep my
Ca/
Alk at the numbers above and wait. In 3 months time I have at least 1 rock that is completely indistinguishable from my
LR and the rest have nice purple on them. I'm already getting growth on the back wall (yuck, but that's a personal preference). I have some emeralds, hermits and snails that might be helping my plight as well.
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) Well, I've learned a lot since then and my tank is cruising along nicely now. I've added some more pieces of LR and Worm Rock to seed the coraline algea back. I have a handful of puple spots on some rocks but I'm trying to get it to break out and turn that beautiful purple color. I blow the rocks off regularly and I just recently learned the importance of General Hardness and Alkalinity as it corresponds to calcium level and the ability for coraline algea to grow. So my calcium is not at 495ppm and my Alkalinity was at 7. Pararmeters are now in line and I was wondering if there was anything else I can do to kick my purple in gear.
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