Should I use Coral Vital?

[tacks]

I'm doing a water change tommorrow. I've been battling green hair algea since upgrading my lights. Phosphates are 0 and I use RO water. I've been told that I need to "get the good algea going" ie; coraline. I have 25lbs of live rock and one of the pieces has a lot of purple coraline on it. It seems to be spreading. Should I add coral vital to the batch of water I'm making to increase coraline growth or will this only add more nutrients for the hair algea?

 

[up north hermit]

And there are those who feel exactly like you Trey!! So glad you stated the facts, maybe people will listen to YOU.
FWIW, I find that by keeping my Alk and Calcium levels high and by providing vigorous movement along with good seeded rock, mine grows all over the place. I do not add anything to the tank except C-Balance once a day.
Hermit

 

[ironreef]

http://www.animalnetwork.com/fish/data/foods.asp It has the same nutritional valuve as brine shrimp =none. I used it befroe for mo when it first came out. didn't do anything when I used it or when I quit using it. when you add something to your tank you are always looking for change. any change good or bad you may think the product is doing. But a chemial breakdown of it tells you theres not much to it. I don't anything to my tank except calium and buffer and have good coral growth. IME its expensive dirty water. I would rather use dt.