Green spots

[jojo22]

They are on my glass and are very hard to remove. The snails can't get them off either. After I scrub them off they come right back in a day or two. All my params are ok. Any suggestions???

[flame]

Sounds like coraline. This is a good thing to have happening. Your tank is healthy and doing well. I clean the glass on the tank once a week and use a razor blade to scrap off the coraline.

Good luck

[jojo22]

It comes off with an alge pad. The spots are very very small and cover all 4 sides of the tank. Does this still sound like coraline. Tried to upload pics and I don't Know how to resize. Its on all the glass even where I can't reach. This is my first tank and I have to admit I'm getting a little peeved at these dots.

[jojo22]

any thoughts????

[flame]

IMO it is coraline. It can be green, pink and other colors. Its natural part of your tanks growth.

[dakar]

Flame is dead on... welcome to coraline. Take a look at Repto's 55g tank, must be encrusted with 1/4" of it by now. For what you are seeing now, a clean single edged razor blade will remove it quickly. Let what you scrape off fall to the rockwork and it will seed your LR fast. As mentioned it will come in different colors from green, pinks, and purples.

[jojo22]

Cool I never thought I would see coraline before 6 months. Hey Dakar any help on resizeing my pics. My palm tries to upload thm at 640x600 or something like that and the new software won't let it happen.

Edit: Just saw the post that said you will be fixing that shortly. Figured I would say that here for the others who may miss that post.

[jojo22]

Just took a 5 inch scraper blade to my glass. Worked great. Thanks all.
I almost bought one of those kent marine scrapers but 5 inches (no comments from the peanut gallery) shure made the job go quick.

[davejnz]

Althouh there is a green coralline and that might be what you have,I've also found a very tough turf type algae that grows the same way.If you notice the dots growing in an encrusting,circular pattern than it is coralline.If the dots don't seem to encrust,and start growing little green turfs,then it is the other "turf" algae.

[jojo22]

Turf alge it was. I wish it was coraline so bad. But they where very little dots. Each was independant from the others. I left the back glass alone.