Hi, everything about coraline is all over the place online... (newbie here)
ive had a fully cycled thank for almost a month now, not once have I seen trites or ammonia over 0. Trates are still pretty high since I turbo cycled it but I’m working on it, 20% wc ever 3 days (I also have a supper innacurate API test kit for that but my NYOS is coming in soon).
Only today have I gotten an phosphate and alkalinity Hanna checker
alkalinity is 106 ppm or 5.93dkh
phosphate is .26
my rocks have been starting to get green (basically took over diatoms) and now there’s a bit of diatoms on my sandbed which helps me find the dead spots now.
at the LFS I asked what kind of algae is super hard to scrape on my glass, it’s green and barely comes off if I scrub it with my mag float 20-30 times so I have to scrape it off. They’re tiny green spots but I try to stay on top of everything with my tank and take any preventative measure I can.
LFS owner told me it’s coraline (which I find weird since green coraline is rare and what’s on my rocks spreads too fast to be coraline but it would make sense that the glass is getting some since it’s only barely visible tiny spots that appear here and there and they don’t noticeably spread in a couple of days.
Is my LFS right? When she told me that I took a snail shell full of light and dark purple coraline to scrape off and put in my tank but I don’t see how I have green coraline already especially with my “crappy parameters”.
Any first hand tips to grow more coraline? And I’ve been reading bottle coraline is garbage, does anyone have positive experience with them?
Thanks
ive had a fully cycled thank for almost a month now, not once have I seen trites or ammonia over 0. Trates are still pretty high since I turbo cycled it but I’m working on it, 20% wc ever 3 days (I also have a supper innacurate API test kit for that but my NYOS is coming in soon).
Only today have I gotten an phosphate and alkalinity Hanna checker
alkalinity is 106 ppm or 5.93dkh
phosphate is .26
my rocks have been starting to get green (basically took over diatoms) and now there’s a bit of diatoms on my sandbed which helps me find the dead spots now.
at the LFS I asked what kind of algae is super hard to scrape on my glass, it’s green and barely comes off if I scrub it with my mag float 20-30 times so I have to scrape it off. They’re tiny green spots but I try to stay on top of everything with my tank and take any preventative measure I can.
LFS owner told me it’s coraline (which I find weird since green coraline is rare and what’s on my rocks spreads too fast to be coraline but it would make sense that the glass is getting some since it’s only barely visible tiny spots that appear here and there and they don’t noticeably spread in a couple of days.
Is my LFS right? When she told me that I took a snail shell full of light and dark purple coraline to scrape off and put in my tank but I don’t see how I have green coraline already especially with my “crappy parameters”.
Any first hand tips to grow more coraline? And I’ve been reading bottle coraline is garbage, does anyone have positive experience with them?
Thanks