The All-Pharmaceutical Tank (Satire. Please don't do this.)

[taricha]

(Satire. Don't do this.)

Are you tired of tolerating the "ugly phase", and waves of algae making your rocks look brown, green, and red - instead of the bleached white that nature intended? Are you sick of people telling you to wait it out, or worse - do manual removal with your own hands?
Well, no more! Put algae in the past through the miracle of modern medicine. Embrace the future and kiss algae of all forms goodbye. Don't tolerate even a single cell of algae anywhere in your system. (etc, etc...you get the point)

• Start the tank with Algaefix - highly effective against diatoms, the first algae forms to show up in a new system. (personal observation - algaefix etc in a new tank, the early diatoms never actually appear. The tank stays white until cyano appears.)
• As soon as the first blush of red from cyano appears, hit the system with Chemiclean or Red Cyano RX (both highly effective against cyano - believed to be different antibiotics, feel free to switch from one to the other if a cyano doesn't respond to one of those. Or mix them - this is the all-pharmaceutical tank!)
  Preventing the first two ubiquitous algae in systems, diatoms and cyano, the system should stay clear until the filamentous algae shows up.
• Once GHA appears, use a combo of fluconazole and Algaefix. Each of these is moderately effective against GHA, together they are quite effective (anecdotally) Both persist in the water for a long time - excellent.
• When / if dinoflagellates appear you can switch from Algaefix to the more aggessive Dino-X and add Metronidazole. Metro is known to decimate dino populations but a few cells sometimes form cysts to wait it out. These meds are especially effective against dino types in the water. You may need to remove all your sand to ensure the dino cells get hit by the meds.

And there you have it. No forms of common algae in the saltwater hobby would be able to grow against this Pharmaceutical Toolbox. I have no idea what would actually grow - but if you eliminate all the common ones, you can guarantee it would be something weird! Can you grow corals in a system like this? Maybe. Each individual med and many of those in combination have been done tankwide in coral systems and the corals often do OK. But really, who cares? The important part is you eliminated all your algae - with science!


(Satire. Please don't do this.)

 

[Sleeping Giant]

lol

 

[Orito]

you know I truly believe if you didn't debunked vibrant we would have a BRS video with this method

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

(Satire. Don't do this.)

Are you tired of tolerating the "ugly phase", and waves of algae making your rocks look brown, green, and red - instead of the bleached white that nature intended? Are you sick of people telling you to wait it out, or worse - do manual removal with your own hands?
Well, no more! Put algae in the past through the miracle of modern medicine. Embrace the future and kiss algae of all forms goodbye. Don't tolerate even a single cell of algae anywhere in your system. (etc, etc...you get the point)

• Start the tank with Algaefix - highly effective against diatoms, the first algae forms to show up in a new system. (personal observation - algaefix etc in a new tank, the early diatoms never actually appear. The tank stays white until cyano appears.)
• As soon as the first blush of red from cyano appears, hit the system with Chemiclean or Red Cyano RX (both highly effective against cyano - believed to be different antibiotics, feel free to switch from one to the other if a cyano doesn't respond to one of those. Or mix them - this is the all-pharmaceutical tank!)
  Preventing the first two ubiquitous algae in systems, diatoms and cyano, the system should stay clear until the filamentous algae shows up.
• Once GHA appears, use a combo of fluconazole and Algaefix. Each of these is moderately effective against GHA, together they are quite effective (anecdotally) Both persist in the water for a long time - excellent.
• When / if dinoflagellates appear you can switch from Algaefix to the more aggessive Dino-X and add Metronidazole. Metro is known to decimate dino populations but a few cells sometimes form cysts to wait it out. These meds are especially effective against dino types in the water. You may need to remove all your sand to ensure the dino cells get hit by the meds.

And there you have it. No forms of common algae in the saltwater hobby would be able to grow against this Pharmaceutical Toolbox. I have no idea what would actually grow - but if you eliminate all the common ones, you can guarantee it would be something weird! Can you grow corals in a system like this? Maybe. Each individual med and many of those in combination have been done tankwide in coral systems and the corals often do OK. But really, who cares? The important part is you eliminated all your algae - with science!


(Satire. Please don't do this.)

You forgot bleach!

 

[Dan_P]

(Satire. Don't do this.)

Are you tired of tolerating the "ugly phase", and waves of algae making your rocks look brown, green, and red - instead of the bleached white that nature intended? Are you sick of people telling you to wait it out, or worse - do manual removal with your own hands?
Well, no more! Put algae in the past through the miracle of modern medicine. Embrace the future and kiss algae of all forms goodbye. Don't tolerate even a single cell of algae anywhere in your system. (etc, etc...you get the point)

• Start the tank with Algaefix - highly effective against diatoms, the first algae forms to show up in a new system. (personal observation - algaefix etc in a new tank, the early diatoms never actually appear. The tank stays white until cyano appears.)
• As soon as the first blush of red from cyano appears, hit the system with Chemiclean or Red Cyano RX (both highly effective against cyano - believed to be different antibiotics, feel free to switch from one to the other if a cyano doesn't respond to one of those. Or mix them - this is the all-pharmaceutical tank!)
  Preventing the first two ubiquitous algae in systems, diatoms and cyano, the system should stay clear until the filamentous algae shows up.
• Once GHA appears, use a combo of fluconazole and Algaefix. Each of these is moderately effective against GHA, together they are quite effective (anecdotally) Both persist in the water for a long time - excellent.
• When / if dinoflagellates appear you can switch from Algaefix to the more aggessive Dino-X and add Metronidazole. Metro is known to decimate dino populations but a few cells sometimes form cysts to wait it out. These meds are especially effective against dino types in the water. You may need to remove all your sand to ensure the dino cells get hit by the meds.

And there you have it. No forms of common algae in the saltwater hobby would be able to grow against this Pharmaceutical Toolbox. I have no idea what would actually grow - but if you eliminate all the common ones, you can guarantee it would be something weird! Can you grow corals in a system like this? Maybe. Each individual med and many of those in combination have been done tankwide in coral systems and the corals often do OK. But really, who cares? The important part is you eliminated all your algae - with science!


(Satire. Please don't do this.)

Since I am not growing multicellular sea creatures at this time, I might try all of these cures at once on a system inoculated with all the uglies and more.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

worth a shot in the name of science

 

[Garf]

Since I am not growing multicellular sea creatures at this time, I might try all of these cures at once on a system inoculated with all the uglies and more.

I expect it would be quite effective, until you added multicellular sea creatures, lol

 

[jda]

Since cloves, xenia and the like are pests to many, might as well throw some fenbendazole in there to make sure that they do not grab hold as a hitch hiker.

 

[taricha]

Since I am not growing multicellular sea creatures at this time, I might try all of these cures at once on a system inoculated with all the uglies and more.

There's definitely a strong "but what would really happen?" temptation with this one.

 

[steveschuerger]

 

[taricha]

You forgot bleach!

For those who don't know, there was a brief period of time after it was found that Metro caused dino cells to form cysts, that people really tried low doses of bleach in full tanks against dinos (killed a few fish). That thread is still around here somewhere, I think.

you know I truly believe if you didn't debunked vibrant we would have a BRS video with this method

Heh. Algae will always be a hard problem, and chemical algaecides will always be a part of the hobby as an available solution. No blame for those who didn't know what was in bottles.

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

(Satire. Don't do this.)

Are you tired of tolerating the "ugly phase", and waves of algae making your rocks look brown, green, and red - instead of the bleached white that nature intended? Are you sick of people telling you to wait it out, or worse - do manual removal with your own hands?
Well, no more! Put algae in the past through the miracle of modern medicine. Embrace the future and kiss algae of all forms goodbye. Don't tolerate even a single cell of algae anywhere in your system. (etc, etc...you get the point)

• Start the tank with Algaefix - highly effective against diatoms, the first algae forms to show up in a new system. (personal observation - algaefix etc in a new tank, the early diatoms never actually appear. The tank stays white until cyano appears.)
• As soon as the first blush of red from cyano appears, hit the system with Chemiclean or Red Cyano RX (both highly effective against cyano - believed to be different antibiotics, feel free to switch from one to the other if a cyano doesn't respond to one of those. Or mix them - this is the all-pharmaceutical tank!)
  Preventing the first two ubiquitous algae in systems, diatoms and cyano, the system should stay clear until the filamentous algae shows up.
• Once GHA appears, use a combo of fluconazole and Algaefix. Each of these is moderately effective against GHA, together they are quite effective (anecdotally) Both persist in the water for a long time - excellent.
• When / if dinoflagellates appear you can switch from Algaefix to the more aggessive Dino-X and add Metronidazole. Metro is known to decimate dino populations but a few cells sometimes form cysts to wait it out. These meds are especially effective against dino types in the water. You may need to remove all your sand to ensure the dino cells get hit by the meds.

And there you have it. No forms of common algae in the saltwater hobby would be able to grow against this Pharmaceutical Toolbox. I have no idea what would actually grow - but if you eliminate all the common ones, you can guarantee it would be something weird! Can you grow corals in a system like this? Maybe. Each individual med and many of those in combination have been done tankwide in coral systems and the corals often do OK. But really, who cares? The important part is you eliminated all your algae - with science!


(Satire. Please don't do this.)

So….fluconazole and Cipro then?

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

There's definitely a strong "but what would really happen?" temptation with this one.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

 

[Garf]

I expect starting a dry rock, dry sand tank and throwing in loads of food would have a similar outcome, could be smelly

 

[Dan_P]

There's definitely a strong "but what would really happen?" temptation with this one.

I have run 28 nutrient depleted small aquaria up to 60 days. I am familiar with this system and it might be a candidate to “see what happens” with your chemical cocktail. I have a copy of the satirical innovation and wil draft an experiment.

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

And then you post a thread in direct opposition to this. Today lol.

 

[Dan_P]

And then you post a thread in direct opposition to this. Today lol.

?

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

?

Thread 'Technique for Spot-Treating Algae In Tank (unless it's dumb) NaOH+H2O2' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...gae-in-tank-unless-its-dumb-naoh-h2o2.993146/

 

[taricha]

And then you post a thread in direct opposition to this. Today lol.

Heh.
Maybe I like some chemicals and not others?