Water Change, DIY Coral Snow and Purple Up

[Mikey-D]

Today was a big maintenance day.

Did a 20g water change, mixed up my first batch of Coral Snow and added the Microbater7 to help avoiding the dreaded cyano. I also added my purple up. All in all it has been a good day of husbandry

The first pic was yesterday and then during the water change, the coral snow bloom and the last is the most recent when most of it settled.

I will keep up with the this. Testing day is tomorrow I will post my results to see if anything params went crazy

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

What were you hoping Purple Up will accomplish? It’s mostly fine sand.

 

[Mikey-D]

I've read it helps promote coralline algae. I used rock that was in another system but had been cleaned and was soaking but had little to no algae and I am trying to promote a beneficial biological system.

 

[rtparty]

Purple Up is snake oil and doesn’t do anything. Just as a heads up.

 

[Mikey-D]

Purple Up is snake oil and doesn’t do anything. Just as a heads up.

I'm seeing that now.....

Is there something better or is it all snake oil??

 

[rtparty]

I'm seeing that now.....

Is there something better or is it all snake oil??

If you are looking for coralline, they sell spores in a bottle. Jury is still out IMO

Some snails with coralline on their shells will introduce it. No need to rush this part

 

[taricha]

I'm seeing that now.....

Is there something better or is it all snake oil??

this explicitly says its coralline spores/fragments. And people have generally posted positive responses with getting coralline to grow.
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/live-goods/coralline-algae.html

"Every bottle includes a minimum of 6 separate species of coralline, all with color variations of pink & purple that will populate throughout your tank."

edit: some have used it and found no coralline a month+ later - so YMMV