Hey folks, Hope I am posting this in the right area, never had much experience with forums.
I have several tanks and they all run the same and have the exact same issue, NO ALGAE at all, I have seeded my 125 gallon reef tank with 55 gallon refugium 5 times with a bunch of coralline, last time I seeded, about 2 weeks ago, I was at my doctors office, he has a 75 gallon bow tank loaded with coralline all over the glass, So I got me a couple urine cups with lids and went to scraping his glass, I got quite a bit in 2 cups, took them home, seeded my tank, I cut off my uv sterilizer, my return pump and my power heads, and dumped it all in my 125 all over my center rocks, watched it fall everywhere, waited 15 minutes and turned to wavemakers back on but not the pump and uv, left my uv off for about a week, couple hours later turned my return pump back on, still nothing is growing, I have never had any algae at all in any of my tanks, my nitrates and phosphates are high, like dark orange nitrates and 2.0 phosphates, I grow chaeto really well, in my 125 and my 75 gallon tanks, my other two are ran by canister filters, with uv lights, still no algae in any of my tanks, what gives? what can I do that will help me grow coralline,
lol P.S I get this a lot, people say I should consider my self lucky that I don't have an algae problem, and I do, but doesn't saltwater reef critters, snails, fish, etc, need some algae to graze on?
I have several tanks and they all run the same and have the exact same issue, NO ALGAE at all, I have seeded my 125 gallon reef tank with 55 gallon refugium 5 times with a bunch of coralline, last time I seeded, about 2 weeks ago, I was at my doctors office, he has a 75 gallon bow tank loaded with coralline all over the glass, So I got me a couple urine cups with lids and went to scraping his glass, I got quite a bit in 2 cups, took them home, seeded my tank, I cut off my uv sterilizer, my return pump and my power heads, and dumped it all in my 125 all over my center rocks, watched it fall everywhere, waited 15 minutes and turned to wavemakers back on but not the pump and uv, left my uv off for about a week, couple hours later turned my return pump back on, still nothing is growing, I have never had any algae at all in any of my tanks, my nitrates and phosphates are high, like dark orange nitrates and 2.0 phosphates, I grow chaeto really well, in my 125 and my 75 gallon tanks, my other two are ran by canister filters, with uv lights, still no algae in any of my tanks, what gives? what can I do that will help me grow coralline,
lol P.S I get this a lot, people say I should consider my self lucky that I don't have an algae problem, and I do, but doesn't saltwater reef critters, snails, fish, etc, need some algae to graze on?