Anyone have experience with vibrant for bubble algae
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MarAquatic
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MarAquatic
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Vibrant killed my algea
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keepLearning
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It took care of my bubble algae problem. It also removed Xenia and macro algae. It did give me cyano out break though. However, chemiclean works very well for cyano issues. After that I used fluconazole to take out the bryopsis. Not sure that also helped with the green hairy issue but I did/do have a yellow tang in there. 1 year later I started to see the green hairy algae and the same yellow tang is still there that I'm not sure has been converted to skip on GHA....I might try the fluco again.
five.five-six
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Holy curd, you've had more pests than a Tijuana hooker.
keepLearning
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Shhh. I had aiptasia too. Luckily for me the nuddies wiped them out. And I only had to do it once....smh. this hobby is full of issues and pains lol.
The emerald crabs do eat bubbles but the bubbles come right back and the crabs do touch something else. I didn't have a good success with the emerald crab even though the 2 I had were eating a lot...
The emerald crabs do eat bubbles but the bubbles come right back and the crabs do touch something else. I didn't have a good success with the emerald crab even though the 2 I had were eating a lot...
denash24
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Vibrant killed my macro, causing a po4 spike that browned out a ton of corals. What followed was a cascade of events that ended up costing me 4 really nice 10yr old colonies. Like 12-15" diameter colonies, not some small fist sized frags. I didn't believe the horror stories i read of vibrant, and now after all that i went though I wouldnt add that <font size="1" color="#0000FF">profanity removed</font> if you paid me. There are a ton of people who have has success too though so if you do go down that path start and proceed with caution and go very very slowly. The mantra of nothing good happens fast can be demonstrated quite easily with this product.
If you need to lower phosphates make sure to check your nitrates first. If they are 0 then they are the limiting factor on how low you can get your phosphates. Then I would use lanthanum chloride to slowly bring things into balance. But you need to be careful here too since dropping phosphates too fast can tank things real fast, ask me how i know.
Get a red sea desjardini sailfin tang for bubble algae
If you need to lower phosphates make sure to check your nitrates first. If they are 0 then they are the limiting factor on how low you can get your phosphates. Then I would use lanthanum chloride to slowly bring things into balance. But you need to be careful here too since dropping phosphates too fast can tank things real fast, ask me how i know.
Get a red sea desjardini sailfin tang for bubble algae
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Because I don't think caution could be overstressed here:
Lanthanum Chloride is a very powerful tool to lower phosphate. It is NOT something to use without serious research, and a complete understanding of what you're doing.
This stuff can make an experienced aquarist feel like a noob.
chunkylovah
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It rid my tank of bubble algae and GHA. Only downside was it also rid my tank of my snails. There was a lot of algae when they all died so my guess is they didn't like eating the dying algae or vibrant some how killed them some other way.
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