so after 2 years my tank has finally cycled. i had a long battle with gha. diatom, red slime. i tried many water changes. carbon, polypads nothing worked. my snails kept on dying. i was able to keep fish. i tried a foxface cause [MENTION=1313]pga7602[/MENTION] said they would help eat the gha. not.
we thought it could be not enough nitrates so we dose nitrates. hahahahah didnt work.
i tried to add a fuge. was growing cheato. but it would die too.
every coral i put in there would die. it didnt work.
so i turned to chemical for some help recommended by mike. Vibrant. used one bottle slowly but surely the algae almost all gone. sorry didnt have before pictures was very depressing. 2 year battle. finally have a few pieces of corals in the tank