How obsessed are you with bad algae, dare to test?

[Bacon505]

Lets test how bad your obsession with algae such as hair algae and briopsis. Take a look at the pictures bellow of algae growing in the tank. Lets pretend this is your tank:
Does these much algae stress you out?
would you take the initiative to treat it?
Which form of treatment would you take to fight it?

after your assessment with the problem. Click on my build thread for a full view of the tank. Would you still try to focus on beating the algae? At what cost?

 

[brandon429]

yes. because its found to be uncontrollable in work threads.

remedy

try and effect control in one single patch area. not the whole tank

don't subject all areas to param changes, that's a benthic hitchhiking invader and it works independently from params in the water, it got here by showing up and being allowed. focus on a small test area with direct care options, the scale up. don't experiment with the tank as a whole for sure.

if that tank is so large that you cannot access a test rock outside of water for trial, and this is the best way because it doesn't cause tradeoff invasions, then try fluconazole.

but when all the algae mass dies internally, it goes into the sandbed and rock pore systems as a clog. that accumulates...

any number of snails might control that...might.

to be different, make one single test area absolutely comply, using any means you have to including a steak knife and peroxide, and then decide if you want to upscale what is known to work before the whole tank is experimentally dosed with anything.

 

[Uncle99]

That would stress me out.
My treatment?
I used Vibrant but took 16 weeks.
I did seem to lose all the coralline on hard surfaces slowly over 2 months as well as the green, but did work.
Can’t prove Vibrant was the cause, just very coincidental as the same thing happened twice in two different setups.

 

[brandon429]

I agree vibrant has statistically signiificant cures for that type of invasion, about 75% likely imo

before applying any water doser testing, pull up work threads for the doser in question and look at worst case scenario whole tank outcomes.

 

[Bacon505]

there’s a purpose to this post and also a good way for people to learn and share their method and experience