If I had seen more than one quarter sized tuft that lightened in color, I may have tried again with Reef Flux. But was shocked, after reading all the success stories, that it did nothing for my tank. Maybe I'll get lucky and the sea hare will be magic. He spent all evening last night traveling around the rock I put him on. Couldn't find him this morning when the lights were off, so I'll see where he is when I get home. Cute little guy, and fun to watch. Too bad he needs to leave once the algae is gone.
You're barely over a month into the fight. I wouldn't call that ineffective, I'd call it you not giving it enough time. Not saying it that way to be rude, but cleaning up major outbreaks take time, outside of extremely aggressive tactics. If you want it gone in a day, pull all the rock and wash it peroxide, just the 3% stuff works fine. Don't get it on the corals though, outside of zoas I don't think they handle it well. Literally pour it over the rocks, and scrub them down. Then rescape. It will kill it fast. But be ready to continue to clean them, along with aggressive methods of nutrient control, which, based on time line you gave earlier you didn't keep up with after the Reef flux dosing. Otherwise, it is slow and steady, manage nutrients, manually remove, let the CUC work.
I wondered if I got a bad batch too. Definitely not underdosed. I have a 32g tank with maybe 27g water volume. Over 3 weeks, I dosed all 10 capsules (though after the first 4, put carbon back in so that probably pulled those out. dumb move...). But then dosed 3 and a week or week and half later, 3 more. Still nothing.
Actually, almost 3 months into the fight (from mid November). Tried natural methods first, to no avail. I can't pull the two worst rocks, because I have so many critters living in them, including my fish. I pulled them very briefly trying to catch a crab and nearly killed 3 fish...one I'm surprised made it, but he healed (he either got crushed at some point, or beat himself up while inside the rock when it was out of water for a few minutes).
