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critters for my sand? i have some larrge peices of dry white and blue corals and rock i have sand but theres no life or beneficial bacteria id like to know how can i get the rock and coral to get covered in lots of coraline and how can i get the micro organisms and little copeops and critters in the sand and the good bacterias thriving
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there are some chemicals that are good bactria starters.
the best way is to add a piece of live rock with some nice coralline algae on it. then adding calcium to the water will help it grow. Just like any other thing adding chemicals i never feel is the best way to go. Introducing coralline from another piece of like rock that has it and then gioving it the right lighting and enough calcium for it to thrive and spread to the other rocks. coralline algae hates white light but loves the actinic light so if you dont have other species that need the white light in your tank than for now running just the blue light will help the coralline grow faster. Get a calcium test kit and calcium then bring your calcium levels to 400-420 and try to maintain that calcium level. check out http://www.garf.org there is some good info there about growing coralline algae. hope this helps and good luck.
ADDITON: you can buy live copecods if you have fish that only eat those like a mandarin goby. But again the best way to introduce any of those critters is with Live Sand and Live Rock. they are already in the live rock and live sand here is a link that may help. http://reefs.org/hhfaq/
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