Some DIFFERENT Questions About Coraline

That would make sense with the sump. Something I will hopefully be trying in the near future
And I was honestly maybe thinking of the exact opposite of the glass thing. I have never scraped the back glass. Not once, since day one. I only scrape the front and one of the sides of my tank.

 

Its not really that I'm obsessed with it, or want a solid pink and purple back wall. It's just something I have noticed in my tank and pondered about. Nothing more nothing less Seems like most start to get it on the glass before anything else. I never have, so I was just kind of wondering why.

 

my question is why in the world do you want it to grow on your glass lol

it maybe that you back doesn't get adequate lighting or flow. or too much flow


but hey theres always paint

 

If you want coralline to grow on your back glass, use an algae pad or a glass magnet and clean it once a week. That will remove the bacterial biofilm and give the corallline a surface on which to grow.

 

i seem to have two kinds of coraline growing in my tank green on the glass and purple on the LR

 

So read two things on this thread that I'd comment on my experience.

First - I haven't cleaned my back glass in months and months. It has a bit of algae growth - but you can only see it when looking in from the side. I am not getting coraline growth on the glass either.


Second - my lights are on legs. The bulbs put most of their light in the front not nearly as much on the back (mostly bc I have a rock structure/wall blocking it to some extent, but also because I have the light pushed to the front of the tank). But my moons shine down the back (dumb).


So maybe those both are the reason I don't see it on my glass - maybe just one of them... my two cents

 

I had pink spots everywhere on my glass for a while.. then it went away. I have some pink on the front and sides towards the bottom. Coraline loves plastic, too. I think coraline is awesome.. except on the front glass! Who wants to scrape a bowfront with a razor!