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Real Reef Rock (the product) was used. It was absolutely covered in GHA for quite some time due to using Triton and having an algae bed that was of insufficient size (in my opinion). I believe the rock became clogged up and saturated with phosphate but I now seem to have pulled it out based on the reaction of the GHA. It took about 6 months and is now disappearing rapidly.
FWIW... i once setup a tank with this artificial purple painted rock, and was not able to keep my Alk down. it just kept creeping up to levels where i needed to do water changes to get my alk to come down. it drove me nuts.
as soon as i removed those painted rocks, my alk became stable.
EDIT: wow... i just noticed that i replied to an ancient post
anyway... i'll leave it here, just in case anyone has the same problem.
J.