Coralline algae in a bottle or just wait it out?

[schooncw]

You will get all the coraline algae seeds required when you get coral with frag plugs.
Unless the coral is fresh cut, and the plug brand new.

The bottle coraline is all snake oil gimic.
It will not speed up anything.
Coraline is a sign showing your tank has equalibium and near the end of maturing out.

This is not something a bottle can do, unless that bottle is Time itself.

That may have been true in the past, not now. https://arcreef.com/product/coralline-algae/

 

[schooncw]

I would like to gather current data from other users.

Should I get the pink and purple coralline juice or wait and see what naturally comes in my tank?

My reason for wondering this is they say it will come in on corals, inverts, ect.

My hermit crabs had some on them when they were introduced.

I definitely have coralline algae forming but it’s very light, practically white.

I won’t be introducing any on the bases of corals or plugs because I’m only doing branching sps and I always take them off the frag plug.

I don’t want to seed with coralline from another tank to prevent pests as much as possible.

I’ve also feel like I’ve read others have used the juice and it made the coralline go overboard.

So what would you do?

Is the juice worth the squeeze?

Or is patience the virtue since it’ll be primarily acropora?

Nothing wrong with seeding from another system.

 

[schooncw]

This product is legit. https://arcreef.com/product/coralline-algae/

 

[AquaLogic]

That may have been true in the past, not now. https://arcreef.com/product/coralline-algae/

This is of course just my experience, but I tried that product, followed their instructions to the letter. Scraped the jar with the little scraper over and over...

It's been months and it has done absolutely nothing. I have no way to verify if there are live spores in it or not, but it definitely did nothing in my tank, at least not yet.

 

[schooncw]

So, my 120 LPS dominant system is in great shape and almost a literal ton of rock. I have virtually no coralline algae but that’s because of elevated PO- the rock is 35 or so years old. How are your nutrients?

 

[Glitterbomb]

I cured some dry rock in an outdoor tub when I lived in Florida. It grew it on its own. Must be in the air down there lol

 

[Arkayology]

IMO, coraline will find it's way in. Snails and hermit crabs are the best way IMO.

 

[BriDroid]

I tried it twice in my tank with two different "manufacturers", and neither seemed to do much of anything. I finally have a couple of purple spots starting, but it's hard to tell if it came from the bottles or just the snails that I put in?

 

[kyreefville]

I’m not much on secret sauce. And just because it’s in a bottle that says coralline who knows what else is in it. Since you aren’t putting in plugs or rock from other systems. And trying hard to keep it sanitary, and let’s assume snails don’t have any on them. You could simply get a scraping from a system you trust to jump start it.

 

[Akimbo]

They don't sell arc reef coralline here in Canada (at least that I know of). I have a relatively new tank and was wondering if I should ask my LFS if they'd sell me a scraping of it from their display tank. Might come with pests but I probably everything they have already. Anyone think this is a good idea?

 

[BriDroid]

They don't sell arc reef coralline here in Canada (at least that I know of). I have a relatively new tank and was wondering if I should ask my LFS if they'd sell me a scraping of it from their display tank. Might come with pests but I probably everything they have already. Anyone think this is a good idea?

You should be able to find some snails that are covered in it too. Just ask for them.

 

[reeftankdude]

Seachem Strontium at half the recommended dosage if you have no test kit. It made my purple algae thicker and deeper in color.