Searching For Gha Cause

[jeffopentax]

So if I follow what salty did (1 cup, changing every 3 weeks, for 3 months), hopefully that will give me the upper hand in the battle. If my math is correct, I need about 1lb? My tank is around 115g btw.


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[jeffopentax]

I think I'm starting to understand @Salty Cracker love for gfo. Three weeks running one cup has thinned the gha considerably!

Before

Three weeks running gfo

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[Salty Cracker]

Lol, yep, I don't promote it because I sell it, I promote it because it works (fought with HA for years)

 

[Chef G]

I too use GFO never go without it! once you strip the phosphates from your water you'll end up changing gfo less instead of 3 weeks prolly every 4 or 5 weeks. Careful though as you want to still have very small traces of phosphates as coral still require it in their diet.

 

[Josh]

So far it hasnt cured my issue yet, however my phosphates are down to .08 so im assuming its a battle of time now.

 

[Salty Cracker]

Absolutely, first remove the food source (phosphates) and then wait for the HA to starve. It definitely doesn't happen overnight, but then you will know how to keep HA at bay

 

[Josh]

I picked up some fluconazole that i want to try in my 20g long. I am going to throw a few rocks with bryopsis on them and treat the tank with the fluconazole. Just going to use a small powerhead to keep movement. If all the claims online are true it should kill all the bryopsis in 7-14days in a single dose. Its apparently coral and livestock safe (pending you dont nuke with rot etc etc). I plan on just doing liverock to see how it goes. Pretty hard to find a single person who doesnt speak highly of this treatement.

Anybody have any experience with this or am i the test runner here

Cons are definately the cost.

 

[Chef G]

outta curiosity how many hours a day are your lights on more specifically your "whites" assuming you have lights that allow you to control blues & whites separately? I ask because one of my mistakes in the hobby was even though id get phos down to the bare min i would still get GHA growth realized that my problem was that my whites were on for 2-3 hours longer than they needed to be.... hence why I asked the question..