This is good timing on this thread. I'm just getting back in after 12 years, and I've been checking out this product. Thanks for doing this. When I saw your last pic before I read the message I thought diatoms. Watching.
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That is a good point. I imagine it would be much much harder and less cost effective to cultivate a clincally isolated coralline culture, especially one containing multiple strains of coralline and nothing else. Algae and diatome spores are quite prevalent. That said, i love their product either way. The last time i used it, the coloration and variety of coralline it produced, even at my novice hand, was astounding.The bottles are not pure coralline - there is other algae in those systems that they bottle. I think ARC mentions that coralline shows up after a green or brown phase fades.
all good points.A quick re-read of their site, i dont see that mentioned that it will show signs of coralline growth after the green/brown phase. But, i would also assume that it should not be a surprise that algae and diatomes appear first as their cellular structure leads to much more rapid construction/ division, whereas the coralline would be a little more complex and slower growing.
I assume that autocorrect prefers timeline to coralline!My results, no timeline
There are some strains of coralline that prefer low light actually. I was poking around the other day reading around and found this article:No, the rest of the message wasn’t posted. I don’t know how long it took to get that much Coraline, but it was under a year. I don’t have that much Coraline on the back now, Two Urchins have eaten a lot of it. BTW, I have Coraline in my 65 Gallons Sump, which has little to no light??
There certainly is. Coralline algae's metabolic process is similar to stony coral and does uptake some N+P. So rather than a ghost feeding i figured i could directly control how much was in the system.@Red_Beard Is there a reason you're dosing phosphate and nitrate? Diatoms and hair algae needs these to survive, but I haven't seen anywhere that mentions coralline needs these. My understanding is that they only need alkalinity and calcium.
Since you might be getting diatoms already, the next progression would be nuisance algae before coralline takes hold. Adding phosphate and nitrate will only further propagate the bad stuff.
handy-dandy toothbrush...If algae grows rampant in a few weeks, how are you going to remove it? Adding CuC or herbivores would "contaminate" this tank and experiment.
Nice! Some of that plating coralline looks really cool!honestly have no experience using “bottled coralline” in that commercial sense but i have bought chips and liquids from various people that have seeded my tanks very well
i actually just got a bottle in of red/plating coralline “seeds” that looked really good
so following this along with my own experiment