BIG TROUBLE!! Need advice please.

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Originally Posted by chris88

I have seen carbon dosing absolutely annihilate algae issue in a short time. i have always used vinagar/kalk so i cant talk about vodka but there are lots of threads explain how to dose it. It is a very cheap option, so i say go for it. it shouldn’t interfere with anything else you are running.

Months ago there was one single piece of live rock that I had that used to get HA and when I first put in rowaPhos the algae got annihilated in about 3 days with nothing else changing. Haven't seen a peep in nearly a year now.

As for the apocalypse in your tank doch, I'm glad that it's turning around now. That being said I'd be leery to go so quickly into different filtration/media/filter methods all in one go, often the huge shifts in parameters will cause more problems than they solve and I'd personally wait for any big dosing or polymer methods so that you can get the tank just running happily and stable before stressing the animals with chemical shifts. The funny test results will make it more difficult for you to judge if there is even any true intervention required.