The comet's 5 footer!!!

[shoelevy]

on my rocks...they've appeared as spots on rocks.

lights don't cause coralline to grow?...then y people put actinic to promote its growth

i never dose cal...the only thing i added was the element booster from the coral life salt

[blueheaven]

According to GARF, coralline thrives in deepwater regions where the light is dim and blue, that's why they say actinic promotes coralline growth.

But IMO, the most important element that you need most is a high Mg amount.

And since coralline is a form of algae, I believe that it also needs a form of lighting to grow. I have been very successful using GARF's methods, boasting red, orange, green, pink and purple coralline all over my tank

[shoelevy]

GARF's method is to maintain high Mg?

dun mind this stupid one asking but y high mg promotes coralline growth?

[Ancelot]

well, believe it or not, my coralline is still growing without lights and dont assume i got moonlight for them. At night it is pitch dark except for the corridoor lights outside my house but thats so negligible..

Although growth is slow, but still growing thats the problem. I believe coralline algae comes in many different forms under amany different conditions. So dont always assume there must be light for coralline algae to grow and the light must be blue (though this is theoretically correct). Calcium and kalkwasser is a must! without those, i dont think coralline can grow..

Anyway veer off le.. now back to the main topic!

[blueheaven]

GARF's method is to maintain high Mg?

dun mind this stupid one asking but y high mg promotes coralline growth?

The reason is because coralline has a very high Mg content in its tissues, that's why low Mg may retard its growth.

[blueheaven]

Ok, here's some pics to show that I do not make untested claims.

This is not to flame Ancelot but its the actual fact of what is happening in my tank.

This is half of my Tunze cap that is exposed to lights

[blueheaven]

Even the side has coralline

[blueheaven]

And on the contrary, the bottom half that is not exposed to lights is sparkling clean

Sorry bro shoelevy, for hijacking your thread

[shoelevy]

its ok....at least u were trying to show how coralline needs lights to grow....its sth i wanna find out and u've set it straight

[Tigger]

yes coraline agale need light, my 6060 cap top half is filled wif coraline agle

[shoelevy]

todae come back from army camp....market prawn called morpheus and went out of the matrix.....haha

throughout the 13daes while the prawn melted, no ammonia an nitrite was detected

conclusionL:bact already present from rocks sold to me by fellow reefers.

[shoelevy]

i also did up back up overflow pipe incase main one on the right gets choked for some reason

although unlikely...its better to take precaution

[shoelevy]

bought 2 packets of salt enough for 250L water change

end up changing only 200L so the big bag was enough.

total vol in system is 570...so its a 35% water change

[shoelevy]

hose to drain water

[shoelevy]

Hose draining to balcony with mum...

[shoelevy]

tomorrow morning...hood will be coming and i will be fixing up lights.

will also redo pipes so tt one pump will drive uv, fr and chiller.

will also transfer some fishies and softies over

be sure to catch more photos tomorrow!

[shoelevy]

the hood arrivez.....

farniest thing is those guys said morn will come....jun jun 1159am then come

still morning wat rite?

haha

[shoelevy]

reflector plates installed

[shoelevy]

i believe this is the earth wire but where do i connect it to?

[shoelevy]

250W bulbs installed

btw...this is DE lights

hehe

love him very much

help me alot

[shoelevy]

minor accident....hood fell when arranging wires....it hit the hammer....KEK SEEM AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shoelevy]

mushroom that survived cycling

never even saw it was there till i oned the lights

life is so resilient yet so fragile...

[shoelevy]

redone pipes so that one weipro 4000 drives 3 equipments

looks messy but its actually isn't

[shoelevy]

closer look at the pipes

the right most valve pointing down is to control exces water flow

[shoelevy]

my chiller....nothing but good comments about it if u ask me