Do any of you sale coralline algae chips or know where to get some? My lfs is not the best and most places that sale it online, the shipping is more than the actual product. I want to grind up some chips to seed my tank.
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Yes I would stay suggest just buying some snails or a small piece of live rock that is covered in coralline to seed your tank. Better if you can actually see the coralline instead of a bottle with a few spores that you can't even see. Just my 2 cents though....Arc Reef bottled coralline spores
I found a guy about 100 miles away who has a ton in his tank. He is going to shave me a bunch and mail it to me just for cost of shippingYes I would stay suggest just buying some snails or a small piece of live rock that is covered in coralline to seed your tank. Better if you can actually see the coralline instead of a bottle with a few spores that you can't even see. Just my 2 cents though....
I'm sure the ARC stuff works but without putting it under a microscope you have no idea if there is any coralline in the bottle and if you added any snails or hard shell animals/corals on any type of base during that time the coralline could just as well established from that.I used the arc reef stuff with good success. I like the cards better though, assuming reasonable cost.
They have coraline algae spores in the bottle, so yeah some idea.I'm sure the ARC stuff works but without putting it under a microscope you have no idea if there is any coralline in the bottle and if you added any snails or hard shell animals/corals on any type of base during that time the coralline could just as well established from that.
It's advertised to have spores, as stated in post $9, to be used within a specific amount of time while the spores are viable. (I suppose you could argue possible false advertising but pretty sure their documented culturing/propogating method is real)I'm sure the ARC stuff works but without putting it under a microscope you have no idea if there is any coralline in the bottle and if you added any snails or hard shell animals/corals on any type of base during that time the coralline could just as well established from that.