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After a full year of no algae issues I had a sudden outbreak of GHA. It got unsightly pretty quickly and I felt manual removal wasn't going to work. I have a ton of rock and their was no way to remove enough GHA to keep it in check.
My nitrate and phosphate levels are undetectable so I was dosing a very small amount in my ATO. Still, levels rarely show higher than zero.
My parameters have been fairly steady.
Salinity 34.7 - 35.0
Temp 78.0- 79.0 F
Calcium 425 - 440
Alkalinity ~10.0
My corals had been growing and very colorful right up to....
I emptied 29 capsules of Reef Flux into my 300 gallon system to eliminate the GHA.
Within 3 days I lost 75% of my SPS. All the expensive ones died first, of course. It's been a slow battle of attrition since then and I now have only a few, barely surviving, bleaching, corals left. I can't say it was the Flux for certain but all indicators point that way.
Moral of the story here is be very cautious when adding anything new to your tank. I learned a very expensive lesson.
By the way, it did NOT kill the GHA. Bonus lesson.
My nitrate and phosphate levels are undetectable so I was dosing a very small amount in my ATO. Still, levels rarely show higher than zero.
My parameters have been fairly steady.
Salinity 34.7 - 35.0
Temp 78.0- 79.0 F
Calcium 425 - 440
Alkalinity ~10.0
My corals had been growing and very colorful right up to....
I emptied 29 capsules of Reef Flux into my 300 gallon system to eliminate the GHA.
Within 3 days I lost 75% of my SPS. All the expensive ones died first, of course. It's been a slow battle of attrition since then and I now have only a few, barely surviving, bleaching, corals left. I can't say it was the Flux for certain but all indicators point that way.
Moral of the story here is be very cautious when adding anything new to your tank. I learned a very expensive lesson.
By the way, it did NOT kill the GHA. Bonus lesson.