Coralline not growing?

LOL so true. I'm sure I'm not to your point yet but getting there fast. At 3 months I wanted my rocks to color up faster so I read up on how to boost the growth and took steps to do it. Now two months later it's growing...on a little on my rocks, better on the glass and reeeaal good on anything plastic in the dt. I scrape new spots off the front and side glass every morning. Already can tell that I made a newbie mistake by encouraging it LOL

 

Very strange I get Coralline growth in my tank with just a single 50/50 bulb and no additional add-ins for my 15 gallon FOWLR. The only thing I do is 10% water changes weekly. In my 29 BC the coralline is epidemic with how fast it grows (standard BC lights). I have heard it just depends on the tank. I did buy all of my LR with heavy Coralline growth which I am sure has helped a lot.

 

Mr. Tuxedo to the rescue

For those who have an overgrowth of Coraline - I have a Blue Tuxedo Urchin in my tank who lives off the Coraline. He keeps it to a minimum only because he can't eat any more. Also keeps other algae off the rock and back of tank. Won't go near the sand however.

 

any problems with them knocking frags around? killing zoa's, etc?

 

I just added a Black Widow Blastomussa - Single polyp mounted on a square frag tile. Mr. Tuxedo did a slow dance around the polyp scarfing up the Coraline without any damage to the coral. Also did the same with three other new corals I added. So I would say that they appear to be aware of the corals and don't damage them. I don't have any zoa's, so I can't speak to that issue.