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I had a similar issue and my only conclusion is it was the Seachem Fuel I started dosing. My levels never changed but I got a hair algae outbreak and some random deaths of snails and slow coral growth. My algae scrubber also wasn't growing as well as it had. I don't know exactly what it was but manual removal of the hair algae didn't help until I stopped dosing Fuel. Once I did that, my manual removal helped and it stopped growing back and my corals started growing again. My scrubber has also started growing a mat like it did before.

 

If possible the 40b. If not a 10 gallon with some established rock.

 

Fwiw, have you looked into hydrogen peroxide treatement of the offending rocks/trouble areas?

Worked pretty well with an outbtreak that I had and didn't have to tear down the whole system.

 

Tried elevated mag?

 

Do you vodka dose? Or have you tried that in the past? I had a bunch of rock that had bound up phosphate and was causing lots of hair algae that I couldn't get under control. The vodka dosing did the trick for me.

 

Zach I just finished cooing my rock (well the half of it that I put in dry) and it took about 3 months for the Phosphates to drop to a level I was comfortable with. I am still battling a little bit of hair algae bit nothing like it use to be. I can step you through the cooking process.

 

Not sure. Ive been told to up mag for GHA. As for the Tech M, Ive heard alot of things. I saw a thread where someone emailed Kent asking what the working ingredient was, they said they didnt know. I recently had someone tell me Kent knows and had thought about marketing it as a bryopsis killer but there would be alot of red tape.

 

Dave, I only did water changes I wanted to try without chemicals. Like I said above I still have a little algae but nothing like before.