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I have 5 Tang’s and none are touching this stuff. My urchin spends most the time munching on the coralline algae in the tank. The snails and hermits don’t make a dent. I would pluck it all if I could but it’s extremely difficult to pull off.
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Sorry to hear about your yellow tang Frogger .
Small young tangs seemed to eat more of that green ,but as the got older all they wanted to eat is the meaty foods I fead the tank . My powder blue is lazy on eating it too unless he really hungry. The stuff must taste like crap lol. Sure hear a lot of talk about “vibrant” What do you guys think about it . |
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Vibrant works for some but not for others. In a low nutrient system like mine it caused cyanos. I have been battling with cyanos now for 4 months since I used it.
In the process of removing all of my sand bed to finally get these things out of my tank for good. Have used chemiclean but only works for a short period and then cyanos come back. |
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Not sure where to start battling this algae. All my sps are doing great so I hate to start twisting the system.
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If you can take the rocks out of the tank you can scrub them, scrape them and spot treat with peroxide. Does wonders and the algae doesn't grow back.
Read https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/re...roxide.187042/ |
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Vibrant is hard on a tank. Your best choice is to run a course or two of flocanozole. It does a good number on it until you can get your perams stabilized. I ran flock for about 40 days and it got the GHA under control until my tank stabilized and controlled it on its own. Emerald crabs do help as well. But they can only control minimal growth. They cannot keep pace with a full on bloom. It’s all about nutrient control, and SLOWLY elevating numbers at a pace the tank can maintain.
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Cheers Gary 604-319-0317 Last edited by Cujo#31; 12-31-2018 at 04:16 AM. |
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Would recommend this as well. Pluck or scrap off as much as you can to help move it along. Remove all carbon/purigen or anything that might filter out the fluconazole. Turn off skimmer. Leave the GFO in if you have it. If you change water add more meds. If you are running a refugium, you risk loosing your macroalgae and re-introducing more nutrients into your system so keep that in mind. Fluconazole is very effect against bryopsis but much slower against other algae, sometimes if you're unlucky, no effect at all. GHA can take 30 days. Have no clue what turf will take. But it's probably the safest treatment out there considering other alternatives such as Vibrant or AlgaeFix. |
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algae, green, hair algae, identify, turf |
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