Still battling GHA

djbetterly · Jan 4, 2016

2.1 wifi single chip

twilliard · Jan 4, 2016

Bring that ch1 down

20 18k chips is a ton of white light

djbetterly · Jan 4, 2016

LFS had a baby Seahare that I promised to bring back once the bulk of the GHA is gone. Picked up 5 turbos as well.

TheEngineer · Jan 4, 2016

Cover any powerheads in your tank. I've had nothing but bad luck with seahares, hope it works for you!

djbetterly · Jan 4, 2016

What kind of bad luck?

TheEngineer · Jan 4, 2016

Mine didn't live very long. Usually just a couple of weeks.

twilliard · Jan 4, 2016

They get chopped up and make a mess

djbetterly · Jan 4, 2016

Oh yeah, the power head thing I was aware of. I told her I'd bring it back in a couple days.

djbetterly · Jan 4, 2016

Man, that seahare and the turbo snails are going to town!

knukles55 · Jan 4, 2016

if they eat it correctly from the root you should be in the clear hopefully

knukles55 · Jan 4, 2016

I've battled this for six months now tried vodka, gfo, changing t5 bulbs and nothing....... so I decided to run phosguard and skim wet so far so good algae growth has gone bald in some places and isn't growing as fast

AcroFarmerRWB · Jan 5, 2016

Throw an urchin in!

BlacknBlue2 · Jan 5, 2016

at the very least the seahare and turbos have helped you get a leg up.

knukles55 · Jan 5, 2016

I'm buying a lawnmower blenny to help maintain the algae from a local who wants to get rid of him

djbetterly · Jan 5, 2016

Exactly! I would have bought an urchin had the LFS had one.

Dtackett · Jan 5, 2016

glad to see theyre eating it up and its working but until you take care of the food source, the GHA will just come back. GHA growing mostly on the sand tells me youre not cleaning your sand well enough. what you could do is swap your sand bend. this was the steps I took when I had a gha outbreak in my 29.

drained the water down low enough that most of the rock was exposed, but the fish had room to swim. probably left 3-4 inches of water in the bottom. now I was bare bottom so I didn't have to swap sand.
sprayed 3% undiluted h2o2 on all the GHA, not just a mist either... I soaked it. waited 2 minutes and sprayed it again.
scrubbed as much of the algae off as I could with a stiff bristle brush.
sprayed yet again with h2o2. (at this point my tank had been drained about about 8 minutes and my coral had been exposed the whole time)
refilled the tank with clean water and left the lights off to allow the tank to settle before being blasted with light again. figured it was stressed enough.

lights turned on the next day and I swear there was no algae left and it never came back.

drstratton · Jan 5, 2016

Dtackett said:
glad to see theyre eating it up and its working but until you take care of the food source, the GHA will just come back. GHA growing mostly on the sand tells me youre not cleaning your sand well enough. what you could do is swap your sand bend. this was the steps I took when I had a gha outbreak in my 29.

drained the water down low enough that most of the rock was exposed, but the fish had room to swim. probably left 3-4 inches of water in the bottom. now I was bare bottom so I didn't have to swap sand.

sprayed 3% undiluted h2o2 on all the GHA, not just a mist either... I soaked it. waited 2 minutes and sprayed it again.

scrubbed as much of the algae off as I could with a stiff bristle brush.

sprayed yet again with h2o2. (at this point my tank had been drained about about 8 minutes and my coral had been exposed the whole time)

refilled the tank with clean water and left the lights off to allow the tank to settle before being blasted with light again. figured it was stressed enough.

lights turned on the next day and I swear there was no algae left and it never came back.

You can spray Peroxide directly into the tank and not rinse it off? I had no idea you could do that. It doesn't affect anything?

djbetterly · Jan 5, 2016

I may have to do that...

Regarding the sand bed, I was always told not to disturb a sand bed. But now so many people are telling me to clean it. I don't know what to believe!