Hey everyone, the package with the vibrant should be coming tomorrow. My salinity has also been around 1.024, so I’m going to do a small water change with higher salinity before I start dosing. Fingers crossed, I’m exited to see how this turns out!
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Awesome. I like that you are going slow with the minimum dose and seeing some results already.Alright, I dosed vibrant last Thursday, I got the cheato in a bucket, an I already see a visual improvement with the algae. The long strands are starting to shrink, and the dense spots of algae are shriveling up and getting smaller.
I will dose vibrant every 2 weeks at 1 ml/10 gallons until the chrysophytes are gone. I will do manual removal the day before I dose again and I don’t think I’ll do a blackout because I was looking at some other threads and it seems that it is not very affective.
One question, what should I target for my phosphate and nitrate? I have heard mixed opinions about this algae liking low or high phosphate. My phosphate is around 0.04 and my nitrate is 0-1 ppm.
I also am going to start adding some of the things vetteguy said, I’ll monitor my nutrients more closely and moderate them if needed.
Thanks all that contributed to this thread.
Hey, thanks, the battle is going great, I have raised my nitrate to about 5, and my phosphate to 0.05. I have been dosing vibrant Bi-Weekly, and the chrysophytes are almost gone. I am starting to get GHA, but that is much easier to deal with compared to chryso. For this entire treatment I have had my skimmer off, and my cheato in a bucket, so I can raise my nutrients as much as possible. Ill continue to dose vibrant until all of my algae is gone.How's the battle going? I've had a long struggle with the uglies starting with Cyano which I treated with Chemiclean. That did wonders, but a month later Dinos showed up. Fought that for a long time with manual removal, UV, etc... and then finally got a scope and found I had LC Amphidinium. Went round and round with different treatments and finally dosed Si and thought I was getting nowhere. Put a sample back under the scope and much to my surprise I saw practically no Dinos, but now I had these much smaller, clumped together cells that I hadn't seen before. After doing some research, found out I had Crysophytes...
I've tried MB Clean with MB7 for a few weeks but saw no real improvement. Manual removal helps, but is just a temporary bandaid. My sand seems to be the worst along with 1 side of my rock structure. Interestingly, this side used to have another rock on top of it for about a year before I re-did my scape. So, Cryso for me seems to love my sand and the areas of rock that have not been "exposed" like the rest. I've had a renewed interest in seeing what others have tried and I'm becoming more willing to try riskier treatments such as Vibrant. Seems that Vibrant is the only product that has at least a few confirmed successes for eradicating Cryso...
Unless your coral are already done for, I would stay the course. If you are now largely FOWLR, then fire away.Man I really want to up the vibrant dose haha.
I am not a Vibrant hater even though I started that thread about it containing something other than bacteria. The stuff does work. To me, the problem is people think that you can't really overdose bacteria. I mean, if you do, they just starve and get skimmed out, right?I have decided not to update the dose of vibrant, I'm almost done with the battle and there's no need to rush things.
IIRC, you are largely coral free right now, no there isn't much risk concern. My sense is though, that the algaecide should gradually accumulate over time unless you are running carbon or other means of export. Don't do anything drastic.Hey everybody, I think that the battle is going pretty well still, but progress has definitely slowed down a bit.
I have noticed that whenever I blow/scrub the rocks, a few days later, more chrysophytes and green hair will take its place.
I guess I was wondering what I should and should not be doing right now, if I should boost the dose of vibrant, stop scrubbing the rocks, etc.
Thanks.
I think that I could get a fox face, instead of a tang.IIRC, you are largely coral free right now, no there isn't much risk concern. My sense is though, that the algaecide should gradually accumulate over time unless you are running carbon or other means of export. Don't do anything drastic.
Do you have volume to add a juvenile one spot foxface? I keep one in every tank I touch. When they get too big I swap it out for another juvenile if they outgrow.