View Full Version : CORALINE ALGE
JUICY JAYNE
09-16-2009, 11:46 AM
:clap: HI EVRYONE, I HAVE ONLY JUST JOINED AS A MEMBER, BUT I HAVE NOTICED A STRANGE THING SINCE I HAVE BEEN POSTING PICS AND POSTS ON HERE THAT I HAVE REALISED THAT I THINK THAT MY CORALINE ALGE IS DISSAPEARING, LOOKING AT VARIOUS PICS, FROM ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO UNTILL NOW IM SURE IT IS NOT SO PURPLE, ANY IDEAS?:irked:
dixienut
09-16-2009, 11:50 AM
mine does that,.. when it runs out of calcium and other minerals that it needs to grow,.. it will start to dissolve,..
krytan
09-16-2009, 12:35 PM
Sorry can't help with your question but can you not type in caps please, it's like your shouting at us.
Reefscape
09-16-2009, 1:18 PM
mine does that,.. when it runs out of calcium and other minerals that it needs to grow,.. it will start to dissolve,..
Thats pretty much it..When coralline algae starts to die away, its usually pointing too a deficiency in trace elements.. Can you post your latest water parameters for Calcium, Alk and Mag please, and we shall take it from there..
Amphiprion
09-16-2009, 2:15 PM
Agreed. If calcium and alkalinity are in check, then chances are a magnesium deficiency is to blame.
zoakeeper
09-17-2009, 5:53 AM
Did you happen to add/upgrade your lighting? Or maybe switched salts or slacked up on water changes? Maybe added an urchin?
Oh, and quit yelling, I have a hang over.
JUICY JAYNE
09-17-2009, 11:17 AM
sooooo sorry!! about the caps being on,headache tablets anyone:hitting:
JUICY JAYNE
09-17-2009, 11:57 AM
:huh: here are readings SAL 1.025 MAG 1320 calc 405 ALK 10.3 temp78 ph 8.3 phos 0.03:22_yikes: (added rowaphos) I have noticed that there are alot of really tiny starfish all over the rock ill try and post a pic of rock
JUICY JAYNE
09-17-2009, 12:28 PM
Can you see the little star fish?
Amphiprion
09-17-2009, 2:14 PM
Those shouldn't affect coralline to any extent. With water parameters out of the way, could you also answer zoakeeper's questions, which could also contribute to the coralline problems.
JUICY JAYNE
09-17-2009, 2:45 PM
No everything else is exactly the same, I must just add that this must be happening really slowly, because it is only comparing photos from afew months ago that I can see a difference
Reefscape
09-17-2009, 2:49 PM
Your little stars, by the way, are asterina stars....
JUICY JAYNE
09-17-2009, 3:03 PM
:y220d:Where did they come from cos they where not there for the first 18months
Reefscape
09-17-2009, 3:21 PM
Its very possible that a few have been hidden in the rock work, then started to reproduce to levels that make them visable...
Can you see the little star fish?
My coraline grows well but I have thousands of those little star fish. They eat my coraline like crazy. =)
Conski
09-22-2009, 11:37 PM
get a harlequin shrimp, watch those suckers disapear :) and youll love it anyways
get a harlequin shrimp, watch those suckers disapear :) and youll love it anyways
I had heard about that, what do you feed them after they are all gone? I would love for those silly stars to be gone. They were a pretty cool novelty at first and the kids liked them. Then they turned from 10's to 100's to 1000's and munch on every bit of coraline they can find.