Well good news to report. After trying Gfo, Phosguard, 2 new rodi units, Chemi clean, darkness for 3 days, Carbon, Heavy water changes, Pimafix and melafix....NOTHING WORKED. Started using Api Algaefix marine for about a month and guess what.....DIDN'T WORK! Called Api and they advised me to dose every 3 days and continue with the carbon, wet skimming and water changes. another month passed and "ghost algae" was covering every rock now! So one day my daughter comes in the room right before I'm about to strip out this expensive 65 pounds of Real Reef Rock and watches me in anger lol. Then she quietly says "Dad why would Api say do water changes once a week" I say " Cause it's to get the nitrates and anything else out the water" She looks at me and says "Daddy.... wouldn't that also take the medicine out the water.......*Blank stare*........ *Continues blank stare* I stop what I'm doing and dose it again this time just heavy skimming and NO water changes. 4 doses of Algaefix Marine into it now and the Algae is dying FAST. I CAN SEE THE PURPLE ON THE ROCKS AGAIN!!!! The white furry algae is 90% gone and all that's left is the brownish mat the fuzz was growing on. And that's rapidly going away. even the trochus snails shells which had hair algae on them is gone! Shells are beautiful and purple! Man I'm so happy right now. I must add that during this dosing phase only 1 snail died. Corals, fish and inverts were not affected. Moral of the story..... While dosing Algaefix Marine, DO NOT overdose, Dose every 3 days and do not do water changes until algae is dead. Once it's dead then do a big water change. I don't know what caused this "Ghost Algae" and it didn't start until I got this real reef rock and dosed Microbacter 7.
