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I’m going to give Vibrant or the three day black out a try tomorrow and will respond here with my results. Hopefully it will be easier for others to find in the future. The strange thing is it seems like a multiple different solutions have worked for many different people.I had trouble finding info on it back when I had it. Think people also called it golden algae.
I tried the blackout for several days and didn't do anything.I’m going to give Vibrant or the three day black out a try tomorrow and will respond here with my results. Hopefully it will be easier for others to find in the future. The strange thing is it seems like a multiple different solutions have worked for many different people.
Believe I had a small cyano outbreak after vibrant, chemiclean cleaned it right out.Two updates….
One my triton test results came in and I was not showing super high silicates. Maybe the chrysophytes were consuming them enough to offset the reading?
Two I’m on my second week of dosing 1ml/gal of vibrant twice a week. This is the first approach that seems to be working as the chrysophytes are coming back much slower. According to some sources it can take up to six weeks to work so I am really hoping for success here. My coral seem to be doing ok and the only side effects I have noticed are my nitrates are running much higher than ever and cyano is now growing on my back glass.
Thanks All !
I noticed this appetite it has for coralline algae as well. I was never really certain how they were cause/effect related though. Did my coralline die for other reasons and then these guys came along to clean up the dead coralline? Or did chrysophytes do the killing?I’ve had it and vibrant wiped it out for me. Also affected coralline and coral as well though so be careful. That was the only thing that actually killed it for me though. I tried waiting it out with manual removal and it just hung around. Vibrant nuked it quite nicely.
Agreed. Nor did H2O2Uv had no effect. Manual removal had little effect.
Agreed.I had trouble finding info on it back when I had it. Think people also called it golden algae.
How is the 3rd week going?Two updates….
One my triton test results came in and I was not showing super high silicates. Maybe the chrysophytes were consuming them enough to offset the reading?
Two I’m on my second week of dosing 1ml/gal of vibrant twice a week. This is the first approach that seems to be working as the chrysophytes are coming back much slower. According to some sources it can take up to six weeks to work so I am really hoping for success here. My coral seem to be doing ok and the only side effects I have noticed are my nitrates are running much higher than ever and cyano is now growing on my back glass.
Thanks All !
I’m very close to saying it worked entirely, I have yet to have any issues with coral and my fish are doing great still. Within the last few days since my Sunday dose I have not seen any chrysophytes come back.How is the 3rd week going?
One little tidbit to share:
On two separate occasions I kinda let the chrysos get ahead of me. Just got tired of basting all the time. Then, I did a super thorough scrub down. You could hardly see through the water.
I had 6 fish die within 10 minutes. Big, healthy fish. Three died another time. Since then, I mostly syphon them out into a sock if I get behind on them.
Cyano is quick to fill a void. And it loves it when nutrients are bouncing around.I’m very close to saying it worked entirely, I have yet to have any issues with coral and my fish are doing great still. Within the last few days since my Sunday dose I have not seen any chrysophytes come back.
Couple of issues right now…
My skimmer has been over filling with white foam for almost a week now so I know my nutrients are more than likely very high.
I don’t know when to stop dosing Vibrant, I will more than likely do another couple doses and stop.
I am getting some cyano now
Finally I am still unsure of the cause of the chrysophytes because my ICP tests before and after the outbreak do not show high silicates. I am going to do another test in a month or so when the chrysophytes are gone to make sure the chysohoytes were not consuming the silicates so efficiently that my levels showed within ok ranges.
Seems like cyano is typically the result of vibrant. Chemi clean will take care if it for you very easily and then you should be problem freeI’m very close to saying it worked entirely, I have yet to have any issues with coral and my fish are doing great still. Within the last few days since my Sunday dose I have not seen any chrysophytes come back.
Couple of issues right now…
My skimmer has been over filling with white foam for almost a week now so I know my nutrients are more than likely very high.
I don’t know when to stop dosing Vibrant, I will more than likely do another couple doses and stop.
I am getting some cyano now
Finally I am still unsure of the cause of the chrysophytes because my ICP tests before and after the outbreak do not show high silicates. I am going to do another test in a month or so when the chrysophytes are gone to make sure the chysohoytes were not consuming the silicates so efficiently that my levels showed within ok ranges.
To clarify, the group chrysophytes is not a silica-using group.Finally I am still unsure of the cause of the chrysophytes because my ICP tests before and after the outbreak do not show high silicates.
Thank you for this response, honestly I had never heard of chrysophytes before I had them so while I researched what I was battling the Si word was thrown around as an indicator or even a cause as I took it. At this point the chrysophytes are gone but I never found a root cause to learn from and make sure they don’t come back.To clarify, the group chrysophytes is not a silica-using group.
There used to be an older usage of the term "chrysophytes" to include many golden brown algae - diatoms and some other silica users.
I've seen no reason to think our aquarium chrysophytes are using Si.
if y'all hae seen anything otherwise, I'd be interested.
And do you attribute their demise to Vibrant or some combination of things?Thank you for this response, honestly I had never heard of chrysophytes before I had them so while I researched what I was battling the Si word was thrown around as an indicator or even a cause as I took it. At this point the chrysophytes are gone but I never found a root cause to learn from and make sure they don’t come back.