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09/01/2006, 07:04 PM
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Beside being pretty, is there any uses for coraline?
is there? I'm not asking this in a negative way, was just curious.
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09/01/2006, 07:27 PM
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In the past (right now im nuissance algae free), nuissane algae's have NOT taken hold where my corraline had grown.
I guess it denies an area for potential nuissance algae to take a hold of. |
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09/01/2006, 07:35 PM
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It is also a good indicator of tank health and very natural looking. Like Kong said, if you have good coraline growth the bad algea will generally not grow.
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09/01/2006, 07:39 PM
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Coraline like any algae utilizes nitrates for growth.
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09/01/2006, 09:38 PM
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It helps to add low oxygen areas for denitrifing bacteria in your rocks.
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09/01/2006, 10:33 PM
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Surface area for bacteria to grow on.
Everything else people said is good too.
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09/01/2006, 10:49 PM
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It's a good indicator of appropriate Ca, Mg and alk levels, but I can't stand the way it looks on the glass and I could easily live without purple rocks. To me coralline has only one redeeming quality -- if there's coralline on the rockwork, it provides a constant food supply for my urchin
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09/01/2006, 11:09 PM
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coraline on glass looks awesome
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09/02/2006, 11:08 AM
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Many good things about coraline then, great.
 I really hate to see it on glass though. It breaks the depth of field.
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09/02/2006, 01:15 PM
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It's a good indicator of appropriate Ca, Mg and alk levels, but I can't stand the way it looks on the glass and I could easily live without purple rocks.
I can live with out it on my glass, but purple and pink rocks look awesome. A whole lot beeter than colorless plain grey.
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