Garf - Agree with you if the outbreak is manageable. Once it has gotten to massive plague proportions snails and urchins won't touch it. Coral growth isn't working because it is actually killing corals at this point. For large tanks (mine is over 200 gallons) with large rock structure even manual removal is difficult. Scrubbing the rocks in the tank is close to counterproductive as it's impossible to siphon it all out.
I have to agree with this.
I battled for a year.
Manual removal, snails, urchins, hermits, phyto, sea hare, lights out, dim light, ect. Probably missing more I've done before I did the fluconazole.
I don't know what CCA growth is and f-aptaisia for GHA I never heard that one either.
But when coral start dying and you have exhausted every other avenue to get rid of it, to me, it's the only option.
If it was a fish fungus and the fish started to die and you had to choose between a medication to save them or do nothing and watch them die, I think *most* people would choose the med.
The argument that "they will become resistant" is null.
I would always choose life over death even if it meant I would be resistant to that med in the future.
