I am just lazy and havnt bleached my old socks to get them ready for the clean system! Haha! (Dont want to recontaminate my system with spores or pieces of algae that are trapped in the socks themselves.) But I think you are right about getting the old, dead algae out. I am starting to see some collection on the sand and in the bottom of the sump area. But my snails and others are gobbling it up!
I may go ahead and order another dose worth just to have it on hand.... How long did you wait after your first session was over? And how many water changes?
1 month in my case ( since I began with the first dose) and haven't done a water change yet . Mainly because I wanted to see if it would eventually affect chaeto in my sump. Which it does. There's a lot of people that don't do water changes so we now know that it does eventually break it down also. So I'm doing a water change and redosing the tank.
I wonder what percentage of the medication stays in suspension after the initial dose in a few days, weeks or even a month? Does it get used up as time goes by or are we dependent on water changes to remove it fully from our systems?
I think it just gets used up. At least the actual medication part of it does. The inert ingredients that they used to bind it is the part that I'm most concerned with. I do know that it will grow back if you don't get rid of 100% of it and I do mean the root. That's why I'm doing a second dose because some of the route that I had decided to grow back . It's very very minimal but I want to stop it before it actually becomes something. I think if we have nitrates more than we should have in our tank that that also affects it.
Its getting there! Thanks!
