Still haven’t beat Chrysophytes

[Ober_Reef]

And do you attribute their demise to Vibrant or some combination of things?

100% Vibrant, it’s the only thing that worked.

 

[Ober_Reef]

They are requisite hitchhikers, no param causes them. Since I haven’t added new stock to my tank in a decade it’s physically not possible for my pico to have any invasion other than cyano, gha, green hard dot algae. Those are always associated with reef substrates but all the others are hitchhiked in. It is one million percent not possible for my tank to get a valonia invasion, the dna isn’t available for reprint.


knowing the group of recurring vs requisite hitchhikers sure helps in remediation and control planning.

Thank you for this response, so it more than likely came on a piece of coral or something ? Do any dips work for this? I dip everything I get.

 

[KK's Reef]

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.

How did Vibrant affect your coral?

 

[KK's Reef]

I have mexican turbos that eat it and really clear any spots where they are feeding. Problem is they can't be every where at once. While they are working on one spot, the stuff is growing unchecked in others. I periodically manually scrub. It comes off pretty easy. When it's too close to corals for scrubbing I turn off all pumps, and using a syringe, spray about 10 ml of peroxide at the spot. This is especially effective around zoas.

Do you need to do a water change after the peroxide treatment?

 

[chrisjj625]

How did Vibrant affect your coral?

Had a couple SPS start to STN, but they recovered after I stopped.

 

[KK's Reef]

So I've seen plenty of videos and posts about Vibrant ridding the rocks of algae. But my current problem is crysophytes on the sand. Does Vibrant also work on the substrate?

 

[chrisjj625]

So I've seen plenty of videos and posts about Vibrant ridding the rocks of algae. But my current problem is crysophytes on the sand. Does Vibrant also work on the substrate?

I think it would. It works throughout the tank. Many people struggle keeping macro in the refugium with it for example.

 

[Ober_Reef]

So I've seen plenty of videos and posts about Vibrant ridding the rocks of algae. But my current problem is crysophytes on the sand. Does Vibrant also work on the substrate?

My chrysophytes were mainly on my rock so I can not say for sure but I would think it should work everywhere.

 

[Anxur]

I just beat this. 3 day blackout, gfo, carbon, stopped dosing phosphate. Almost all of it evacuated the tank and clogged a sock on night 2. Skimmer went nuts. Stripping the silicate and blackout was key imo. Will need to do round 2 of treatment tomorrow because it's coming back slowly. Wasn't tough to beat, just had to know what I was fighting. Very limited info available.

How can turn off the light with corals..