World’s worst GHA putbreak

[gareefer1029]

SOS!

I’ve had this 65 Gallon JBJ running for over a year, and over the last few months or so GHA has absolutely taken over…

I attempt to do manual removal every several days, but it’s growing back like crazy. Now it’s on the corals and the snails!!

I feed once per day, run lights 10 hours/day, and dose with Reef Fusion 1/2 a few times per week.

What I’ve tried so far:
1.) once/week Vibrant for months
2.) NOPOX for the last week (I think this has made it worse??)

Im at my wits end. Please help!

 

[Karen00]

OMG... How did that happen?

 

[vetteguy53081]

No white lights for 10-14 days, pull as much as you can by hand and and add at least 4 of each snail:
Turbo grazer
Astrea
Nerite
Cerith
Trochus

Pin cushion urchin
Even a dollabella sea hare

Liquid Vibrant may or may not help with this issue

IS TANK AT OR NEAR A WINDOW?

 

[Maxcmo]

No white lights for 10-14 days, pull as much as you can by hand and and add at least 4 of each snail:
Turbo grazer
Astrea
Nerite
Cerith
Trochus

Pin cushion urchin
Even a dollabella sea hare

Liquid Vibrant may or may not help with this issue

IS TANK AT OR NEAR A WINDOW?

10-14 days corals with no lights? or just WHITE lights?

 

[blaxsun]

It's not the worst that I've seen, but it's definitely "chunky".

 

[vetteguy53081]

10-14 days corals with no lights? or just WHITE lights?

No white lights and if coral present- Blues at max - 20%

 

[giorgiosreef]

Fluconazole works for hair algae too. Basically makes the cell walls of the algae disintegrate. You'll have to deal with the large amount of algae die off though. Otherwise an urchin or sea hare will have a field day in there.

 

[Biff0rz]

That's really not that bad lol. Mine was way worse. Fluconazole removed it quickly. Reef safe.

 

[fachatga]

Yea. Be careful about the release of all those phosphates if you kill it off. Can feed new outbreak or something later on. Good luck! Please keep us posted. We’d all love to watch it go away with you.

 

[Rmckoy]

I have not read anything positive about vibrant yet .
And dosing nopox is essentially colonizing another bacteria to consume another .

the new bacteria will take oxygen from the water

instead of using bandaid remedies to mask the issue .
find the route cause .
Have you tested ?
parameters ?
What lights , location of tank ,
Water source , have you tested tds of water prior to mixing salt ?

what live stock and size tank ?
Cuc ?

 

[Chayo]

Baby urchins

 

[rhostam]

Chin up! Definitely not alone.

 

[Enchanted Reefs]

Get a sea hare

 

[GHOSTLY]

Like above. Get like 20 trocus snails, 2 sea urchins, and 1 sea hare. It will be pricey but good. Maybe even a lawnmower blend or tang but tangs might need a bigger tank

 

[youcallmenny1]

Not really all that bad honestly. What are your NO3/PO4 at? That DSB might be contributing to elevated nutrient levels if it's not cleaned out occasionally. I never could get away with that much sand in the long run without serious cleaning. Ignoring it to "process waste" as DSB enthusiasts claim was the polar opposite of my experience with one over several years.

www.reefcleaners.org is a great site to re-up your CUC too!

 

[G Santana]

Nice try, but my Urchin begs to differ, when you have an Urchin with a GHA Mohawk then it's bad.

My only experience led me to take drastic measures, 7 weeks of dosing Vibrant, 4 weeks of dosing Hydrogen peroxide and vacuuming everyday while watching my phosphates.
Into the 5th week the GHA started to lose its grip on the rocks, I vacuumed everyday for the entire time, towards the last few weeks the GHA was just sloughing off the rocks.
I have been clean for two months, no signs of GHA.

 

[czoolander]

I didn't have GHA that bad but I did have great success with NOPOX to remove it . Every day I dosed as per instructions. Reduced feeding to every 3 days . pellets I watched every pellet eaten so nothing got in the rocks or sumps.

Good luck !

 

[youcallmenny1]

Nice try, but my Urchin begs to differ, when you have an Urchin with a GHA Mohawk then it's bad.

My only experience led me to take drastic measures, 7 weeks of dosing Vibrant, 4 weeks of dosing Hydrogen peroxide and vacuuming everyday while watching my phosphates.
Into the 5th week the GHA started to lose its grip on the rocks, I vacuumed everyday for the entire time, towards the last few weeks the GHA was just sloughing off the rocks.
I have been clean for two months, no signs of GHA.

lol this is killing me...

 

[G Santana]

lol this is killing me...

Lol, it was a suction cup which had become encrusted with GHA which he picked up. My favorite tank shot to date

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Are you cleaning your sock filter out everyday