Too much coralline

[Philipgonzales3]

Wow, just Wow!

Feel free to send me some. I'll pay for shipping lol.

@Nanofan12 check this out!

 

[Codym808]

I have the same problem!! Too much of this dang coralline lol can’t even take pictures because everything is purple.... I’ve tried long spine urchins, although they do a good job of eating the coralline they also knock everything over and eat the silicone between the panels of glass.. we need a solution!

 

[Proteus Meep]

It does seem that there is at least one rare but very aggressive strain of coraline algae out there that even has the ability to overgrow living healthy coral and has a quite scary growth rate

I have read a couple of posts about it after experiencing it on a frag of acid star zoa's it took just a couple of weeks to overgrow the frag and you could even see the shape of the closed zoa underneath it...binned it as soon as i realised what was happening i threw it out before it took over... one of the people i read about ended up restarting his tank because of it...i could see its daily advance smothering the zoa's as it went....my nano was young at that stage and was barely growing coraline at all

Poor Acid Stars

 

[AdamNC]

Well dang it, the urchin I picked up yesterday didn’t even make it 24 hours. I’ve heard they are tough to acclimate but wow. 2 hour drip in a heated bucket. Are they a 50/50 hit/miss type invert? I never ever lost one so fast.

 

[BZOFIQ]

After going through this thread I can only say: It's good to have this problem.

 

[lolgranny]

Well dang it, the urchin I picked up yesterday didn’t even make it 24 hours. I’ve heard they are tough to acclimate but wow. 2 hour drip in a heated bucket. Are they a 50/50 hit/miss type invert? I never ever lost one so fast.

Wow, i personally have good luck with them and don’t even do as much as you did when acclimating them. Did he look healthy when you picked him up? (No loss of spines)

 

[AdamNC]

Wow, i personally have good luck with them and don’t even do as much as you did when acclimating them. Did he look healthy when you picked him up? (No loss of spines)

When I bought him he looked and moved fine. This morning he lost a lot of spines, not moving when I nudged him and a bunch of bristle worms were under him and on his remaining spines.

 

[Justfebreezeit]

When I bought him he looked and moved fine. This morning he lost a lot of spines, not moving when I nudged him and a bunch of bristle worms were under him and on his remaining spines.

I've only had/have one and I only did a 30 min drip with no heater (74 degree house temp) and mine was good. Took him about a week to really start chewing through coralline and regular algae though.

 

[SynGraves]

Impressive. A couple urchins would help keep that managed.

You could always add some GSP to the substrate and let that take grow over the substrate lol

EDIT: When I added my urchin I only did a 45 drip acclimation. Kept the water temp the same as the tank and matched the salinity.

 

[Cali-Saltwater-1st-Timer]

I feel your pain

Looks good to me

 

[jda]

I find them incredibly hardy, but I get them direct from the diver in the Florida Keys.

 

[Wolf89]

Where in NC are you? I wish I had that problem. Lol

 

[Rick.45cal]

Looks good to me

I’m not complaining too much, it’s a good problem to have in my opinion. :D

 

[Nokiaec11]

Thanks for the better photo! If you look at your first pic and have been in the hobby since 05’ I’m sure you’d agree that it did look like cyano. Especially with the new rocks in there.

Here is my fish only tank...just trying to out why my coraline looks differnt than the all purple stuff...the of 2nd biggest rock has been in the tank dor a few years, all of the others just picked it up after added...I acid washed all of the before adding, so everything was kinda of whitish...The coraline algae is just all through my system, my refugium sump has the algae all over the walls...It was all seeded from me buying a very small piece of 2-3" rock and just filing the coraline into the water until there was none left on the rock, after that the added calcium and magnesium went to work.

 

[Nokiaec11]

Here is my fish only tank...just trying to out why my coraline looks differnt than the all purple stuff...the of 2nd biggest rock has been in the tank dor a few years, all of the others just picked it up after added...I acid washed all of the before adding, so everything was kinda of whitish...The coraline algae is just all through my system, my refugium sump has the algae all over the walls...It was all seeded from me buying a very small piece of 2-3" rock and just filing the coraline into the water until there was none left on the rock, after that the added calcium and magnesium went to work.

 

[Reefcowboy]

I have the same problem, coralline everywhere. I used to scrape the back of the tank, but noticed they restablish themselves very quick making me a slave scrapping the tank often...

I guess if coralline grows, corals are growing so I let it be

 

[Urbanknight]

I had a similar problem but not to the extent of the OP. Two pincushion urchins solved my problem in about three weeks. They have been in the DT for about 6 months and continue to thrive. One of them climbs onto the Innovative Marine algae feeder everyday and spends about 5 minutes there before he decides to fall off. I don't know if it's eating algae or cleaning unseen coraline off the feeder.

 

[Marv]

We’re on opposite sides of the spectrum. You have to much and I to little [emoji23]