Coralline growth in 6 weeks new tank

[Flatlower]

I got back into the hobby 2 years after being out for 5 years. I started back with a biocube 32 led stock tank. Cheato refuge in the back sump. It took my 6-8 months to grow coralline maybe more. I did add 2 9watt blue strip from 21led. That did help alot.

I run my tank with refuge and light carbon dosing. My refuge is smaller so i need GFO or carbon dosing to get phosphates from .15 to .06. I use carbon dosing because my clove corals respond very well to it.

We set a new tank up for my wife. Aquatop 40. Cheato in the back, Fluval lights and gave her my 21 led blue strip 9 watt (2 of them). I have her NP bacto balance dosing. Carbon dosing but balanced. It's not taking nutrients but she get the benefit of the phosphates and nitrate bounded up to be available for her corals. Dosing AB+. Back to half when we introduce clowns.

Both are tanks we run .04-07 phosphate and 3-5ppm nitrate

Using all for reef in her tank

In 6 week she has purple coralline started on the sides of her tank. Months and Months to get mine growing. I did do everything right in her tank. RODI water, Sea chem bacteria dosing kit.

*big difference i see in her tank is a living marine snow(let call it) that swirls of mircoscopic animals plankton in her tank all day and night for last 5 weeks. Fish have almost endless food source of copepods they eat all day.




Conclusion:

I think the tropic marin NP bacto balance may may help develop bacteria biome that took my tank months to help coralline growth.

 

[Lavey29]

Post some pics of the set up

 

[Flatlower]

Refuge is first chamber with the stock light attached to the back, She had to prune in back half this week. We let chamber also fill and prune ti back

Tank picture: She got lot of frags from my tank. I started with 3 duncan year and half ago in my tank. I split them in 3 piece. I gave her one. Some zoas, gps, branch of candy cane i grow from 2 head year and half ago, some rainbow monti(starting to grow in her tank, it's exploded in mine in 8 months), and a acan i nursed back to health i got for 10 bucks from lfs. Also gave her some jingle bells but they are small but growing. Also gave her some grape caulerpa. easy to prune and doesn't spawn.


picture 3 is next to a controller where i she hasn't clean. Back of tank has purple splotch started.

 

[Lavey29]

Nice looking scape in a small tank. Sounds like you are off to a good start. You should check @SunnyX thread on bacteria driven systems. He has great success.

 

[Flatlower]

wife takes better picture....we have since moved Favia on the bottom. It's get getting a thicker trunk and looks so cool. I gave her that piece also. I have that favia in my tank and it's exploded. Good strain.

I'll take your advice and read sunnyx theard on bacteria driven system. There is more than meets the eye. I have been doing this for 22 years and still learning.

 

[IceNein]

I'm always skeptical of these bacterial solutions because they don't disclose what they're putting into your tank. In my experience disclosure of things like this do not cause you to lose significant market share, because your average hobbyist is not going to get into the bacteria culturing game just because you disclose what the bacteria are.

I suppose their could be worries about competing companies, but in the case of a company like FM, they have such an extensive product line that it would have to be drastically cheaper for me to want to go with someone else instead of just sticking to a system.

I think the truth is that it's easier to make fantastical claims if you don't tell people exactly what they're getting.

 

[Tamberav]

I'm always skeptical of these bacterial solutions because they don't disclose what they're putting into your tank. In my experience disclosure of things like this do not cause you to lose significant market share, because your average hobbyist is not going to get into the bacteria culturing game just because you disclose what the bacteria are.

I suppose their could be worries about competing companies, but in the case of a company like FM, they have such an extensive product line that it would have to be drastically cheaper for me to want to go with someone else instead of just sticking to a system.

I think the truth is that it's easier to make fantastical claims if you don't tell people exactly what they're getting.

So telegraham has been sending in those bottled bacteria to test what is in them. The results are interesting to say the least..

strep, staph, steno...

Serratia marcescens which apparently is a potential fish pathogen (in Tim's Eco-Balance).

Bottled bacteria results - main thread

This is the main thread containing links to individual product posts where I'll share the AquaBiomics results of my bottled bacteria testing. I won't be debating the products' value, and I look forward to learning from your experience. When products are similar, I'll share them both in the same...

humble.fish

It is interesting anywho