If this med doesn’t work, I want the challenge. We have about four thousand completely fixed gha tanks in our peroxide threads Including my own beaten challenge ten yrs ago documented same tank up to today. Invasion free, all invaders.
Scrubbing is not rasping, it leaves the anchors in place. Rasping doesn’t, you are missing one critical approach. Holler if you get to the point nothing works, we’ll make no 4001
You don’t do your whole tank with my method, you make a single test rock comply then we upscale which prevents wasted time. Once we find the tiny changeup that makes your rock test stay clean, then we do the rest.
You’ve actually been doing the bulk of the access work most refuse to do; which is why you are learning about that whiskered growback from your own test rocking. No gha algae can beat a rasp since it’s holdfasts aren’t that deep. If you’d post s single full tank shot in one pic I could eyeball the direction that tank will take with our approach. I’ll be looking at unspoken causes and variables too (your sandbed) in the pic
I haven’t even seen your tank but your issue begs certain repeating finds in our gha threads...we rarely see bare bottom algae challenge tanks, and we 100% routinely see them in tanks where the sandbed cannot pass a clouding drop test (meaning it’s your cause if disturbance of the bed produces clouding)
Fluconazole is good but it never ever addressed the whole cause in anyone’s tank. What it does address typically is the direct kill portion of the equation, like our peroxide does, but we’ve still got correct surface prep to contend with and that filthy bed, if applicable.
https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/385974-clowns-pico-contest-build/?page=6
Look at the challenges early on there, and the ending results. The reason your tank is invaded has to do with doing opposite actions at critical times vs that above. Algae left in the system, not killed, wicks in its own detritus to decay and feed on site...having a kill mechanism in place months ago would have reversed your challenge, just like she reversed hers there. The only catch was her tank is easy to access so there’s never hesitation to do so.
Scrubbing is not rasping, it leaves the anchors in place. Rasping doesn’t, you are missing one critical approach. Holler if you get to the point nothing works, we’ll make no 4001
You don’t do your whole tank with my method, you make a single test rock comply then we upscale which prevents wasted time. Once we find the tiny changeup that makes your rock test stay clean, then we do the rest.
You’ve actually been doing the bulk of the access work most refuse to do; which is why you are learning about that whiskered growback from your own test rocking. No gha algae can beat a rasp since it’s holdfasts aren’t that deep. If you’d post s single full tank shot in one pic I could eyeball the direction that tank will take with our approach. I’ll be looking at unspoken causes and variables too (your sandbed) in the pic
I haven’t even seen your tank but your issue begs certain repeating finds in our gha threads...we rarely see bare bottom algae challenge tanks, and we 100% routinely see them in tanks where the sandbed cannot pass a clouding drop test (meaning it’s your cause if disturbance of the bed produces clouding)
Fluconazole is good but it never ever addressed the whole cause in anyone’s tank. What it does address typically is the direct kill portion of the equation, like our peroxide does, but we’ve still got correct surface prep to contend with and that filthy bed, if applicable.
https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/385974-clowns-pico-contest-build/?page=6
Look at the challenges early on there, and the ending results. The reason your tank is invaded has to do with doing opposite actions at critical times vs that above. Algae left in the system, not killed, wicks in its own detritus to decay and feed on site...having a kill mechanism in place months ago would have reversed your challenge, just like she reversed hers there. The only catch was her tank is easy to access so there’s never hesitation to do so.
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