ok, dose 2 went in this AM, I notice a little die off in some spots already, but not en masse yet. (keeping fingers crossed)

My ammonia is 0 ppm. The tank smell has gone itself, might be activated carbon was running and did the job. What should i do now? My tank is well aerated though.

With no ammonia and odor problems, I would resume. ;)

I have a few rocks that are growing the dreaded HA! I put my first dose in tonight and hopefully this will take care of it without any negative effect on any of my SPS/LPS corals! Should I continue to run my skimmer?

Tyler

Tyler,

Thanks for sharing your experience with AF. You should continue to run your skimmer. It will help remove organic debris from your water collumn. ;)

Perfect! Thanks for the quick response and I will keep everyone posted!

Tyler

day 5, more noticeable die off since yesterdays 2nd dose. some of the algae is startin to look, fuzzy.

:thumbsup:

Hello guys, well i was reading all of this, but i did not find an answer of my question, i had some cyano and i won my war over it but after that i got around the 90% of my tank covered by GHA, it killed my frogspawn and its totally incrusted in my candycane, well yesterday i gave the 11 dose to my tank, now i have around of the 98 % of my tank algea free i have a minor cyano outbreak and two ceriths dead not sure if it is a direct connection.

Now the problem, i was reading that after the 10 dose there is some problem with the inverts, but my candycane is still cover by GHA in fact the biggest last spot is on it, so that its why i dont want to stop dosing.

i have a derasa and its my master pice so do you think my clam could resist more doses? And why do you think i have not been able to kill the GHA on the candycane? I have sprayed it directly and there is no changes it is green and growing well not very fast but its still growing, i am afraid that if i suspend the AF i going to have a major outbrak again, so maybe someone with more experience could put me in the right direction

thanks a lot for any help

Last night I just brushed my rocks inside the tank with a new toothbrush. Some Hair algae came out easily some didnt. The tank was looking pretty muddy.

Algaefix Freshwater is now converting most of my brown algae to green algae and on a couple of rocks deep brown/maroon algae(might be cyanos). Though I am finding the growth of hair algae a bit slower than earlier as now i also keep my window close for light issues.

I gave 7th dose of AF last night. Should i continue dosing or should i stop?

Tomorrow would be 15% water replacement. I will try to scrub the rocks and then siphon the water.

I continued dosing AF for quite some time after 10 doses. The only negative effect I saw was it killed my chaeto. My clams did fine.

Why it kills the algae on rock etc. and not your candy cane is a good question.

I would continue. The maroon color could very well be cyano, which AF may not control.

The Third dose went in this morning and I will post more updated pictures in a few days. So far I have seen no bad effect on any corals or fish. :thumbsup:

Updating pictures. This is after the 2nd dose took effect. Before and after pictures.

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Dave,

Nice pics. :)

Thanks Cliff, believe it or not they were all shot with my cell phone ;) No editing other then cropping and resizing them. Happy as hell with AF so far at this point.

The only downsize I seen so far is the little bit of smell caused from using AF. But well worth it for the results.

I did have one question, I have a very powerful skimmer on this 90 gallon. Did you skim wet or a dry skim? The first few days I was skimming very wet. But now I dialed back my skimmer to a more dry skim and waiting to see some results.

IMHO, the ideal skimming rate is in the middle between wet skimming & dry skimming. You want your skimmer cup to fill with some water but not so much that you need to empty it more than once per day.

Running a filter bag can help quite a bit for collecting the algae in the water column which has died or broken loose. The odor is most likely decaying algae.

I agree that the odor is the algae that is evident when I empty my skimmer cup ;). I was having to do that once per day.

Here are my thoughts and I could be way off base here let me know. I wanted to skim very wet to remove any dead or decaying algae and keep the spikes in the tank to a minimum. But in doing so will that remove more of the AE before it has a chance to work its magic? I took your advice and I'm skimming in the middle.

But in doing so will that remove more of the AE before it has a chance to work its magic?

AE?

Crap I meant AF - AlgaeFix? True or not?

AlgaeFix will brake down quickly in a reef tank, within 24 hrs. Knowing this you will want to change tank water and try to remove algae about 24 hrs before a dose. This will give ample time for the AF to do its thing. ;)

One more note Cliff, Only the few pieces of new Marco rock I put in the tank are the ones getting all the algae. Is it possible the new rock itself is the source of the Phosphates? Because my 2 test kits read zero and I'm running High Capacity GFO in a reactor. I only feed a small small pinch of pellets every other day to the tank. Also changing 30 gallons a week of water out.
My tests
Mag - 1320ppm
Nitrate - Less then 5ppm
Ammonia - .15ppm
Calc - 430ppm
Alk - 7.2dkh going to raise this a little.

The rock could have some phosphate. If so it will leach out into the water column which would allow GFO to remove it. It's also possible that the pest algae are better adapted at colonizing the new rock surfaces then coralline algae.

Should I continue to run my carbon and gfo during the treatment? I removed it during the 1st dose. I did notice a huge improvement within 18 hours. I did a small water change and 75% of the algae came off of the offending rock. (some branch rock I have that seems to leach something because it is the only place I get any problem algae)

HObbyists have successfully run carbon, GFO & dosed carbon sources while using AF. I don't believe it makes much difference IMHO. :)

I would at least continue the GFO and GAC fwiw.

thank you!