Life
Dwell rock is dwelling to all types of great and useful lifeforms. Most likely the obvious is coralline algae. Good high quality stay rock might be coated within the stuff giving it a pink to purple coloration. Not like most algae that is one you really need in your tank. It is an encrusting kind of algae that leaves behind a calcareous skeleton very like coral- therefore the identify. In truth this algae contributes a good quantity to constructing the reef rock itself and might really fuse rocks collectively over an extended sufficient time in your tank. So why would you need this algae? For one, it is lovely. Purple is the most typical coloration adopted by pink.
Nevertheless, it additionally is available in a number of different colours together with crimson, inexperienced, blue, and yellow. Apart from the seems to be the opposite profit is that it may possibly out compete the lower than fascinating algae. Coralline algae will encrust over the naked rock leaving nuisance algae nowhere to seize maintain.
There’s much more than simply coralline algae residing on, and in, stay rock, although. It abounds with all types of tiny shrimps, crabs, worms, sponges, snails, and different fascinating sea creatures. All collectively the wide range of critters discovered on and in stay rock can start to construct an precise meals chain inside your tank- ending along with your fish and corals getting a wholesome supply of stay meals.