yea, I'm using purple up already :-P
It usually appears, takes over for a while, then one day vanishes. (if you're lucky) Like I said, if you like it, enjoy. If you go back to the Ricordea picture, you'll see a tiny spot of coralline on the rock in front of it, just to its left. That will spread. If you clean your glass of any coralline build up, those shavings will seed your reef and help encourage it to grow. There is a product called Purple Up (by Caribsea) that also encourages coralline growth.
Learn something new all the time... what are ways to combat it if it starts getting out of control? nothing in the tank seems to touch that at all, and it's taken probably 3 months for it to get that far. Sad part is one of the most colorful things in my tank right now is apparently bubble algae lol....
oh and I totally missed it....... ' Now directly behind that rock to the right of the Ricordea is a nice patch of coralline algae. It is purple in color, and matches the contour of the rock.' That's purps.... one of my hermit crabs actually lol, his entire shell is encrusted in coralline. If you look in the daylight FTS he's hanging on the edge of the middle table piece... coralline on the move!
That last picture doesn't show up as you hoisted it from RC or Reefkeeping magazine. It is in the valonia family, and to be honest if you enjoy it, keep it. Most people wouldn't put that in their tank, not even a few.
and btw, my nepthya is now pissed at me for moving it all around and taking off part of it's home land
Try a few more times to get that picture. Keep your hands steady (use a chair back to steady the camera if you have to), clean the front glass and turn on all the lights. Let's see it once more.
Nice, your tank is really shaping up good. And congradulations, you've got a form of algae I've never seen in my tank. That's rare.
The red bubble algae is less round, and more flattened in shape than the green bubble algae. The easiest way to figure out what you have is to remove the rock from the tank and squash a couple of the protuberances. If they smoosh and squirt slimy stuff at you, they're valonia. If they crack and break off, then it's coraline.
yea, I've like actually picked up that piece, and they're kinda like hard plates, that fold in and on themselves over and over. That's about the best I can do with a picture on this cheesey little olympus camera, hell it's only a 3.2MP setup lol The reason I've considered it a form of coralline is how it's grown with the higher calcium levels in the tank and that it's a hard algae. I guess I should've called it calcerous or whatever it is like those green bubbley ones I get on the left side of the tank too.
That stuff growing on the Nepthya rock doesn't look like coralline to me, but you'd have to take a straight on focused shot for me to be sure. It looks like a type of red valonia. Are any of those red bubbles speckled like an easter egg? Now directly behind that rock to the right of the Ricordea is a nice patch of coralline algae. It is purple in color, and matches the contour of the rock. There is a type of plating coralline that looks really neat, but I'd have to dig around to find a picture of that to show you.
Ya tank is looking great Dread! The GSP is looking real good. They are filling up nicely in the center again. I bet you are so happy the algae is gone. I have so much algae in my tank...wow! I can't wait for it to go away. I can't wait till ya get ya frag pack and ya update us with pics of them in ya tank.
i was kind of planning an entire install/setup article on it already I'll post over here. Everything from install, to setup, and adding the additionals to the system... I'll be writing it, so hopefully people can understand retard/stupid
I'd like to know more about your float switch wiring plan, as I'll be doing the same. Be sure to create an entry on that topic, as I'm sure others would benefit as well.
oh, I also need to get a new ph sensor, but I'm going to try and calibrate this one as well too. It seems off as its reading my tank at about 7.8... and I know I'm higher then that... I restored defaults and the sensor went to 8.4 after that, which I know is a little high for my tank. I've verified my tank against 3 ph test kits and they all show around 8.2. It stays very consistent, and I'm not tieing anything into ph adjustment anyways, so even if it is an older sensor and fluctuates a bit I'm ok for the time being. My additives will be timed and from float switches, not ph dependant
pins 1 and 2 are a sensor circuit you can use to trigger the dc8 with. I'm going to order 2 of those float switches that you've posted about before, tie them into the serial port connection, and use my AC Jr. as a top off controller as well too. That should allow me to 100% control the tank from just an AC Jr., though I may have to get yet another dc8 with everything that I want to run off of it.
That's a great deal! Congrats. I paid a little more than you did. What are you going to use the Serial port for?
nice toy I did an electrical revamp over the week end and made some changes to my ac3 controller taking advantage of its powers
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