Not willing to give up, but it's been about a six month battle. I do believe my inexperience is costing me, or cost me so much early on that my battle with GHA is too much of a mountain.
First, the tank:
First, the tank:
- Fluval Flex 32.5
- 2 inTank media baskets. Been using filter floss and Chemipure Elite
- Middle chamber has a Tunze protein skimmer (and AIO connections)
- Important to note : I don't have anymore room to add anything else to the tank without first removing something (in case that's suggested)
- Feed once a day 1/4 of a frozen tablet
- Four hermit crabs [who don't seem to take about algae]
- Roughly a dozen snails. Only about 5 adult snails, the rest of baby snails (born in the tank)
- Weekly water changes with manual algae removal. This has been challenging because most of the GHA is well adhered to the rocks
- Clean sand bed weekly
- I tried both NoPox and Vibrant but neither had any effects
- Lights are currently mostly just blue/purple, no white or reds
- Two fluconazole treatments. Both generated minimal results
- I've treated all but two of my rocks with hydrogen peroxide [out of the tank]. Results were great
- I have three fish. The two clownfish will eat anything so I can manage the amount of food I give them. My lone cardinal fish will only eat frozen food. I think I'm still overfeeding.
- There are two rocks covered in algae. My thinking is no matter how much I clean up the rest of the algae, because those two rocks are covered the algae just continues to spread. Both of those rocks can't be removed without taking apart the tank. This is really a last resort in my book.