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By considering everything in the world a chemical you defeat the whole purpose of the post. Yes, you can TECHNICALLY say that algae is a chemical but generally a chemical refers to a substance which is artificially derived. I'm pretty sure "chemical" was intended to refer to an artificially derived substance in the post...
Whether you assign the term "chemical" a derogatory connotation or not I'm fairly confident the post was referring to something artificially derived by humans which I personally feel is helpful as it distinguishes from something biological such as bacteria or anything produced in nature.My point is that the term "chemical" is poorly used and is often made to be derogatory, when in fact it should be neutral. Artificially derived isn't helpful either, as anything produced by humans could be argued to be "artificially derived." Pretty much nothing about this hobby is naturalistic.
So does time. My guess (GUESS) - is the pods and the chemicals are doing not muchI'm using pods and Live Rerf Enhance to get rid of my dinos. So animal and bacteria seems to be working and the pods are good for your corals
My first treatment of ReefFlux eliminated my GHA but didn’t fully take out the bryopsis. Going to start a second round now. I added an algae scrubber and started carbon dosing to cut the nutrients, but want to eliminate the bryopsis so my macros in fuge and GHA in scrubber don’t have to compete.ReefFlux worked for me after everything else failed to get rid of Bryopsis. It is too early to say if the fix is permanent, as I just ended the treatment last week.
Yes, it is the nuclear option but after 3 months of thick mats coating my sand and rocks, choking out a patch of Zoas, and killing a Candy Cane, I got tired of doing things the "natural way". My nitrates and phosphates were both at 0.00 and lights were at 10%. Corals were not doing good and starting to lose more. My snails and crabs were even moving about trailing strands of the crap! Going "nuclear" was a last resort and my only regret was I didn't do it sooner as I, and my corals, would have been much better off.They work of course, but to me it's the 'nuclear option'. Poisons are never the first thing I reach for and I only use them if it's worth possibly wiping out the tank. Sometimes it is worth the risk and I have both on hand. Much prefer maintenance and managing competition for nutrients, but sometimes that doesn't always work.