My tank is just about set up, but I have 3 months until I plan on adding fish. I figured i'd go ahead and seed some coralline algae while my tank is just sitting there. My questions are:
1. There are currently no nutrients in the tank. What level of nitrates does coralline need to grow? Everyone talks about having stable parameters in regards to calc, mag, and alk but I have found no reference to what it needs in regards to standard nutrients. My current plan was to dose up to 0.5 ppm ammonia to start a slow cycle and give a 2ppm nitrate level in the tank.
2. What level of lighting do I actually need? I don't really want to run my lights at 100+ PAR since that is just going to grow unwanted algae. Will Corelline grow at lower par levels? f I set my PAR to 20-30 will it grow? All inverts will get the full 80 day quarantine, so if I start growing other algae its going to stay there a while.
3. Water changes? Like I said there is nothing in the tank currently so I haven't been doing anything other than ATO. I'll need to replenish alk and calcium when it starts growing, but is that the only need to do water changes?
1. There are currently no nutrients in the tank. What level of nitrates does coralline need to grow? Everyone talks about having stable parameters in regards to calc, mag, and alk but I have found no reference to what it needs in regards to standard nutrients. My current plan was to dose up to 0.5 ppm ammonia to start a slow cycle and give a 2ppm nitrate level in the tank.
2. What level of lighting do I actually need? I don't really want to run my lights at 100+ PAR since that is just going to grow unwanted algae. Will Corelline grow at lower par levels? f I set my PAR to 20-30 will it grow? All inverts will get the full 80 day quarantine, so if I start growing other algae its going to stay there a while.
3. Water changes? Like I said there is nothing in the tank currently so I haven't been doing anything other than ATO. I'll need to replenish alk and calcium when it starts growing, but is that the only need to do water changes?