Hi folks..
I'm at my wits end with trying to battle GHA.
For the past 4 months, I've been battle GHA. I'm looking to know if I should perhaps dose nitrates in an attempt to "balance" out my nutrients.
Here are the various things I have tried thus far:
- Weekly 30-40% water changes after scrubbing and pulling out the long one-inch strands
- Reduced feeding, only 1x a day
- Chemipure Elite (Has GFO)
- Reef Flux AND Flux RX
- Setting up a breeder box refugium
- Added lots of CUC, only to have them all die within a week. (Probably contributed to even more growth?)
- Peroxide 50/50 dips for rocks that can be moved out
Currently, I'm in my 2nd week of my 2nd fluc treatment, this time using Reef Flux. This does not appear to be having any impact on the GHA, it is still growing back, albeit slightly slowly.
As of last nights testing:
Alk: 7.8
Nitrate: 0.0
Phosphate: 0.06
At this point, what are my options, what should I try?
Should I try dosing Nitrates to see if that would reduce my phosphate, bring some balance to the tank, and pray it weakens the GHA?
OR, would it only serve to strengthen the GHA?
I'm at my wits end with trying to battle GHA.
For the past 4 months, I've been battle GHA. I'm looking to know if I should perhaps dose nitrates in an attempt to "balance" out my nutrients.
Here are the various things I have tried thus far:
- Weekly 30-40% water changes after scrubbing and pulling out the long one-inch strands
- Reduced feeding, only 1x a day
- Chemipure Elite (Has GFO)
- Reef Flux AND Flux RX
- Setting up a breeder box refugium
- Added lots of CUC, only to have them all die within a week. (Probably contributed to even more growth?)
- Peroxide 50/50 dips for rocks that can be moved out
Currently, I'm in my 2nd week of my 2nd fluc treatment, this time using Reef Flux. This does not appear to be having any impact on the GHA, it is still growing back, albeit slightly slowly.
As of last nights testing:
Alk: 7.8
Nitrate: 0.0
Phosphate: 0.06
At this point, what are my options, what should I try?
Should I try dosing Nitrates to see if that would reduce my phosphate, bring some balance to the tank, and pray it weakens the GHA?
OR, would it only serve to strengthen the GHA?