bwomac44
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Before and After Pics Seen Below
I had terrible Turf/GHA problems developing in my tank.
This was due to my dosing Nitrates and Phosphates to keep Dinos away following a few Dino outbreaks. It worked. Algae out competed the Dinos, but was beginning to take over my tank.
All I needed for the Dinos was a UV sterilzer, which I should have just spent the money on upfront. Dino problem solved.
But now a terrible Turf/GHA problem. I believe there were several kinds of nuisance algaes taking hold, but the Turf was the worst.
I would manually remove the algae in weekly water changes once it was long enough to easily pull out, but this was not going to solve the problem.
I am generally nervous about dosing unnatural things into my tank, but I'm glad I did.
I removed as much of the algae as I could and then dosed FluxRX once (no water change after for 3 weeks), and then a second dose following that water change that took place at the 3 week mark.
This reduced ~75% of the algae. What was left was weak.
I then dosed Vibrant a week or so after the second Flucconazole dose. This made it so that 90% of the original algae was gone.
I dosed vibrant once a week after this and now every two weeks. >95% of the algae is gone now. And the rest is slowly fading with these biweekly vibrant doses.
FluxRX and Vibrant were a great combination. Make sure you do your research and watch your nutrients and other parameters throughout the process.
Most of my SPS frags made it through all this fine. Lost a few pieces due to a few different stress factors in my tank (like algae growing onto them, lighting changes, the list goes on), but the clear majority made it.
I will likely stop dosing vibrant once the turf algae is entirely gone.
I thought I may stop since there is only a little left, but I noticed at about 2.5 weeks after my last dose that the little algae that remained was greening up and likely coming back.
I will continue until it is all destroyed!!
It is an amazing feeling and I just wanted to share this story to encourage those going through such issues!
Before and After Pics 2.5 months apart
I had terrible Turf/GHA problems developing in my tank.
This was due to my dosing Nitrates and Phosphates to keep Dinos away following a few Dino outbreaks. It worked. Algae out competed the Dinos, but was beginning to take over my tank.
All I needed for the Dinos was a UV sterilzer, which I should have just spent the money on upfront. Dino problem solved.
But now a terrible Turf/GHA problem. I believe there were several kinds of nuisance algaes taking hold, but the Turf was the worst.
I would manually remove the algae in weekly water changes once it was long enough to easily pull out, but this was not going to solve the problem.
I am generally nervous about dosing unnatural things into my tank, but I'm glad I did.
I removed as much of the algae as I could and then dosed FluxRX once (no water change after for 3 weeks), and then a second dose following that water change that took place at the 3 week mark.
This reduced ~75% of the algae. What was left was weak.
I then dosed Vibrant a week or so after the second Flucconazole dose. This made it so that 90% of the original algae was gone.
I dosed vibrant once a week after this and now every two weeks. >95% of the algae is gone now. And the rest is slowly fading with these biweekly vibrant doses.
FluxRX and Vibrant were a great combination. Make sure you do your research and watch your nutrients and other parameters throughout the process.
Most of my SPS frags made it through all this fine. Lost a few pieces due to a few different stress factors in my tank (like algae growing onto them, lighting changes, the list goes on), but the clear majority made it.
I will likely stop dosing vibrant once the turf algae is entirely gone.
I thought I may stop since there is only a little left, but I noticed at about 2.5 weeks after my last dose that the little algae that remained was greening up and likely coming back.
I will continue until it is all destroyed!!
It is an amazing feeling and I just wanted to share this story to encourage those going through such issues!
Before and After Pics 2.5 months apart
