help, live rock still looks crap!!

i have used purple up with great results. my old boss swears by it.

 

no i don't run a UV unit was thinking about it, but i am running a skimmer yeh and it put out a crap loan of microbubbles which if u know how to get rid of?
Not sure bout magnesiam don't have a tester for that.
Did a water change tonight and tested levels and they were round the same. i do have some coraline growth by cant see much cos of the brown!

 

Well If people would not rinse all the good mineral dust from their new tanks bottom sand or C.Coral and run Actinic's and not start up a skimmer and just get their tanks water parameters up to the standards necessary to keep corals and seed the tank for corallines from scrapings from a trusted and established tank or get a nice piece of coralline covered L/R and then scrap the coralline off that rock with the pumps for the tank turned off to allow the scraping to settle to the bottom before restarting the pumps and use no skimmer for 3 months and plenty of 03 actinic while you wait the 3 months and so then the makers of purple up or any other coralline booster would not sell that much.

But when the cart is put in front of the horse the pull is never easy.. Now if anyone wanted to use a good coralline booster other then having the proper water parameter's ? its your money but all that is in that bottle is the basic elements found in any established tanks water parameters . Ca Carbonate and Magnesium strontium and a bit of iodine . The stuff mixed in any good multi element replenisher ..

Ca. at 450 o 500
Dkh at 10 to 15
Magnesium at 1200 to 1400 ppm and a weekly dosing of a element like Essential elements by Kent's will promote healthy coralline growth Oh plus proper lighting .. This has never not worked for myself or anyone I knew of who ever tried this method.

 

CURRENTLY AT THE MOMENT I USE: mac-alge-sup KIND OF LIKE PURPLE UP
iodine sup, vio-vit( vitamin and amino suplement)
Bio- trace(trace elements) strontium.
currently add 4ml a week of each.