cbianco Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 On some of the rock in my tank I have what appears to be green coraline algae. Now to the best of my knowledge coraline is normally blue, purple and white. The color on my rocks is bright green, almost neon green. This has me baffled a bit considering it is not a "normal" color for coraline algae. You cannot scrape this stuff off and this was not the color when I bought them. So I guess my question is; Is it possible that this green stuff is coraline? If not does anyone have any idea what it may be? I do not have a picture readily available. Link to comment
jenniebutterfly Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 green is a normal color, i have some on my rocks, it is just a less common color, purple and pink are more common, i have never seen blue? hmmm jen Link to comment
stan Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I had lots of green corraline completely covering my back glass. It started dieing back though and has been overtaken by more purple. Link to comment
cbianco Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Thanks for the ID guys (and girls). Link to comment
drg0nzo1 Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Green coraline is cool, i personally like the fact that i have a bunch because it kinda sets it apart from all the pink/purple tanks. Link to comment
repman Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 ya i was wondering the same thing. my rock and glass has been getting covered in bright green algae ever since I started dosing with calcium and strontium. anyone know a good method of removing it from the glass? very hard to scrape off Link to comment
mosquedaj Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 all my live rock had bright green coraline and then when i bought a bright purple coraline rock all the green started to spot with purple. it first looked like brown spots then it turned bright purple. i personally like the purple but would like to keep both as a variety. as far as the blue coraline i have some on my rocks. its like a light bluish purple...pretty cool but it changes often. Link to comment
phishen Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Originally posted by repman anyone know a good method of removing it from the glass? very hard to scrape off Razor Blade, but be careful. I sliced my finger the other day doing it. It's the only way I've found to get it off though. Link to comment
SurfOnH20 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Chris. Thanks for the post. I have the same issue and it looks very nice. I have it growing on the glass as well. Its very hard to get off. i enclosed a photo to see if your tank looks the same. My tanks is about 2 months old... check this link out. let me know if this is what you have.. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...?threadid=51818 Link to comment
cbianco Posted March 3, 2005 Author Share Posted March 3, 2005 H2O I posted some pics of my green coraline. Here's the link. http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/...icture_005n.jpg The large rock in the left hand side of the picture is the rock I am refering to. If you click on my signature you can view all of my pictures. Enjoy and thanks! Link to comment
xeon Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 I have all sorts of coralin algae in my tanks. There are greens, blue-greens, burgundies, purples and pinks. Blane Perune was selling plugs of all sorts of coraline algae colors at one time.... I'm not sure if he still does or not. In regards to scraping coraline algae off glass. especially for my in-wall tanks which was a pain before getting this. It also works with acrylic.... Scrapper on E-Bay Link to comment
cbianco Posted March 3, 2005 Author Share Posted March 3, 2005 I have got over my coraline color prejudice! LOL Appearently many people have many different colors of coraline. I was originally under the distinct impression that it was only shades of white and purple because thats all I saw. Xeon I have seen that type of scraper in many pet shops in my area. I just use a old plastic card, like a credit card and scrape out the tank. I don't mind getting alittle wet, hell I'd jump in if I could! Thanks! Link to comment
gmy Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 cbianco Don't worry.................. all things being equal, the lime green coraline is sometimes a precurser to the purple stuff. Link to comment
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