Oh man so what’s going on? How can we help?
Ugh. I don't know. For some reason both of my tanks have started growing hair algae like it's on steroids. I got some Vibrant to start and fluconozole as a backup. I've been dosing the vibrant which doesn't seem to do much. I dosed the fluc in my frag tank and just over 1x dose. When I mixed it, some dissolved but much of it looked like snow. I put it directly in the tank (no sump) and turned off the skimmer as directed. In 24 hours, lost a 6 line and some corals, and many of them didn't look great. Interestingly, 6 anemones in there did fine. I did a couple water changes and turned the skimmer back on and things seem to be returning to normal. I didn't use a bubbler, maybe that was the issue?
So the two issues are first, where is all this phosphate coming from? I hardly feed the frag tank, and the other has never had issues for the 6 months it's been up. Second, what happened when I dosed the fluc? I need to do something about the GHA, but scared to dose fluc again.