Coralline disapearing

[KahluaZzZ]

Ok now i dont' use supplements ..except those found in my seachem 8.3 and the intant ocean salt. I do 10 % water change every week and my calcium is above 400.

There is a load of exoskeleton on the rock covering the old coraline...but at some places the coraline is completely gone without a trace...it didn't even bleached.

It first began to look "dry" as if it was chippy. Whiter spots appeared. ( not good )

My mushroom + polyps are fine...only the coralline seems to go away. It's not a typical bleaching i guess.

With the little amount of creatures i have..i don't plan to add a load of trace elements for now.

One of my ballast died and now i have only 120 w for a 55 gallons.

1 lifeglo 2 - 1 powerglo - 1 actinic.

The bulbs are pretty new.

Anyone had this problem ?

For 2 weeks the coralline was spreading like crazy...now it's disapearing like crazy

 

[BOWDY]

i read an article that Coraline only really likes actinic light due to the depths it thrives at, i have been looking for it but as usal i find anything when i need it. i lost a lot well all if it due to temp my tank water was at 42-43c last xmas. the only coraline i have left is in the darkness of rocks any exposed coraline died of from heat and white light. still looking for that damn artical

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Ok you're right...i can see intact coralline at the bottom of my tank.

Should i remove the white light ( LifeGlo 2 ) and put my other actinic ?

 

[KahluaZzZ]

well...i switched just 4 now.
2 actinic marineglo 40 W + powerglo

 

[S.Reef]

I would also check alkalinity. If low get it up. Lighting is another factorso your on the right track switching lights.

 

[BOWDY]

i read, that you should run your actinic light for 24 hours. then turn on ur white light for 15, then when ur up to 1 hour of white light you decrease the actinic to 23 hours, 1 hour white

so basicall you ares lowly increasing your white light. the coraline will adjust to it adventually. they are in this nice blue ocean down deep and then POW white light. scare the poop out of any thing i guess lol

 

[dbacksrat]

i'm having a similar problem: my coralline algae is turning grey...probably from a lack of proper light

i love the avatar--someone has a beautiful mind

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Yeah but with my algae problems it can't be done right now.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

man my electric blue hermit eat my coralline too and find my polyps quite tasty...talk about reef safe.
...i just busted him in the dark.
He can remove big chunks of rocks. Oh boy.

 

[wayne]

When I upgraded my lighting I bleached out all the coralline in the top 1/2 of the tank. Such is life.

I wouldn't advise keeping my actinics on 24 hours. Fish need nighttime too.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Yeah 24 h seems a lot. Ok anyone of you have or had an electric blue hermit ? He snapped a tonga branch all night and removed everything purple on it...everything.
The polyps are fine except one or two that he tasted/ squashed.
Powerfull claw.

 

[nightrydaz04]

I have the same bleaching problem to... I have a Coralife 10,000k light.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

Ok..36 h after i switched the lights...the bleaching kinda stopped. When i introduced the LifeGlo2 into my tank i had coralline spreading everywhere and encrusting my powrheads. But it changed and this bulb promotes every other algae too. I think i'll just use my 2 marineglo + Powerglo for now.

 

[BOWDY]

yes 24hours is long for fish, i ws just talking about promoting growth, i guess if u had 2 tanks, then u could afford to run it.

 

[S.Reef]

Another thing you have to consider when running the light 24hrs a day is that you will need to replace them in half the time you normally need to.

 

[DSK]

AND your electric bill will raise another $20.00

 

[KahluaZzZ]

nope...it'll be the same number of watts...and anyways here the electricity is so cheap. We sell our hydro-electricity to the usa so you get the biggest bills

 

[DSK]

ok.......

 

[KahluaZzZ]

just kidding.

 

[dbacksrat]

just think--would you enjoy 24 hours of sunlight? imagine if you were here w/ me in AZ in the summer--24 hours of >100 F---that sounds good, right?
we get our own power down here--ha!!!