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He must of dosed vibrant and or added a fish that ate them because it's impossible to irradiate them via manual removal.

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Probably a combination... I know he had a rabbit fish or two. I'm just saying that popping a quarter million of them didn't make it worse. It got better quickly. So don't be afraid to pop them is what I'm saying.
 
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I was thinking whatever is in that stuff would make it not grow back. I've never had a BA problem. Maybe a few pieces but that's it. Loving my new sps setup. Clean, soaked in rodi rock, clean plugs, all coral cut and dipped before going in. Makes it so much easier to have a pest free tank.


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Yeah I think so to. But it looks like its just a bacterial product that's consuming the available organics before the algae can use it. It doesn't say it has an algaecide or anything like that. I've just noticed with bubble algae, it doesn't need much to grow and become a pain in the ***.
 

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Yeah I think so to. But it looks like its just a bacterial product that's consuming the available organics before the algae can use it. It doesn't say it has an algaecide or anything like that. I've just noticed with bubble algae, it doesn't need much to grow and become a pain in the ***.
They can't say algaecide or make too many claims due to governmental regulations and what that would triger, is what I've heard....but think of it as a algaecide as it kills it all off.
 
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They can't say algaecide or make too many claims due to governmental regulations and what that would triger, is what I've heard....but think of it as a algaecide as it kills it all off.
If true, this makes more sense to me why it works so quickly and why it affects SPS corals the way it seems to. If it was merely bacterial, you could dose a number of different products to get the same result.

Shady nonetheless hehe as I would be pissed if I read the bottle, thought I was dosing a bacteria... then come to find out it also has other things in it that could potentially cause issues to other livestock.
 

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I haven't been removing them to tsee how well the Vibrant cleaner works against them. Obviously it works pretty well so I'll try popping them and see how well it holds them off.
I do have emeralds in the tank. Ivery probably dump over a dozen in a few at a time while seeing no difference. I witnessed some eating the bubble algae but not at a fast enough rate. My kole pecks at them from time to time but doesn't really eat them.
 

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So I've been dosing 1-2 times per week and weekly water changes. I've noticed a lot of bubble algae die off and am starting to see a dent in the stuff. I've also noticed that frags i've added since (on once live rock) havent gotten any new bubble algae growth. Those pieces of rocks are clean and prior to the use of vibrant usually exploded with bubble algae. I've added one of the foam covers to my mp40. Every other day its packed with die off/clumps that have broken loose and thats the only manual removal I've done so far. Here are a few pictures. I have SO much its hard to tell, but some sections are completely clear that were once affected/covered.

Picture taken 1.7

Similar picture from yesterday 1.28

With the way things are going i think that clump under the SSC will be gone in 2 weeks or so. The bubbles have turned translucent and will end up in my mp40 cover in no time.
1.7

1.28

1.7 The next section I hope will start to clear up. Looks pretty similar so I'll take a top down in a few more weeks.


Today this section is free of bubble algae. I'll look for a before picture of this section when it was infested but its never been clean like this.


Over all I am happy with the results so far. My inverts seem fine, fish unaffected. I think i'm battling STN due to my mini crash treating cyano too aggressively, some pieces are struggling with color. I lost a clam while away for the week but it was just about upside down so I'm thinking it fell over and that was enough to take it out. MY other maxima is fine.

I sent in a Triton test last week, that was a few weeks in. Im curious if anything shows up.

I'll refer to this post in a few weeks to better mimic shots.

Anyone still dosing and seeing positive or negative affects?
Stopped using it a few weeks back but die off continues. Just about gone. I do have some bryopsis that seems to be unaffected. A weird blue-feather looking type.



 

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