I hate to say it, but IMNSHO seeding with coraline scrapings is a
myth. Coraline is gonna grow wi8thn or without it in there if the
water / tanaks parameters are right. Proper PH, temp, light, alk and
cal levels and SG, and it will grow all by itself. I initiated some
nice coraline al within a months time in a brand new tank which used
mainly lots of old bleached in chlorox rock that came from the ocean,
that was not in water in over 20+ years..it was totally snow white. I
used dead aragonite sand.......there was really nothing alinve that
died that was needed to cause a cycle to start and after 8 days no
ammonia or nitrite was found.......I added a small piece of liverock
with just a hint of coraline on it, that was perhaps 1, 1.5# to the
tank to seed it all and within a month had coraline growing on the
glass, filter tubesl power head and the rock that wsa white as snow
was now taking on a pinkish hue.....
Same thing for the additives like Purple up......it jmay accelerate
the coraline, but its not sa stong a growth and is more prone to
turnng whte than naturally accumulated coraline is.

Of course all the above is my experience and opinion tak eit for what
its worth.....but I certainbly do not have any faith in seeding
coraline, nor have faith in 99% of the supplemennts for nayhtng out
there except perhaps Caolcium....All the rest IMNSHO is snakeoils and
gimicks.
On Sat, 20 May 2006 13:40:42 -0700, "Allisons Inc"
wrote:
Does anyone have any CORALINE ALGAE scrapings I can have,

regards Craig



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