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There's a lot of steps listed in this method but at it's core, it basically boils down to slamming the system with a very big carbon dose. Under those conditions the heterotrophs that use the carbon dose make life very hard for the photosynthetic nuisances. @Reef and Dive has advised a number of people through this method.Thanks for the reply. The steps in the elegant coral regiment specifically. Is there a more updated protocol?
Here's another approach at a similar mechanism, written up in article form by Beuchat
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/dinoflagelates-a-disruptive-treatment.873/
In some ways Zeovit systems were also playing a similar game - using carbon doses to run "ultra low nutrients" to control nuisance growth in that way.
The emphasis and the descriptions of the mechanisms have gone through different iterations over the years, but they all point to the idea that using carbon doses to favor heterotroph bacteria over nuisance photosynthetic growth is an effective mechanism for that purpose.
There are many other ways, but that seems to be one that works more often than not.