40 Gallon Fluconazole Progress

[instantaquatics]

Day 13.

 

[instantaquatics]

Got a treatment going in 1 of my tanks right now for GHA. This Wednesday will be 5 weeks of treatment and the end of treatment(all GHA is gone). At that time I will run activated carbon and Friday do a 20% water change(this tank gets a 20% water change every Friday-10 gallon Nano with no skimmer). Also during the 5 weeks of treatment every Friday when I did a water change I re-dosed- the complete dose( you really can't overdose Fluconazole.

OP-- how's your treatment going---new pictures?

I just posted them and my plan going forward. Nothing looks to be changing much, or maybe I am just not noticing.

 

[instantaquatics]

Day 15. Took the photos with whites only so you can get an idea of both how bad my issue is and how the fluconazole didn't work on dose #1. Skimmer running today, water change + manual removal tommorow, and the day after that we start the next treatment.

 

[Simsung]

I started treating my tank with fluconazole. The printed instructions recommend 9mg/Litre for bad green algae problems. What is your dosage?

 

[instantaquatics]

I started treating my tank with fluconazole. The printed instructions recommend 9mg/Litre for bad green algae problems. What is your dosage?

~5mg/l for first dose, now it's ~8mg/l

 

[instantaquatics]

Thought I should update this thread. The fluconazole did nothing.

 

[workhz]

Weird. Mine definitely got rid of both hair algae and bryopsis.

 

[instantaquatics]

Anyone have any more ideas?

 

[ScottB]

Anyone have any more ideas?

I am shocked that you got nothing from Fluc over that period. Anything new in the last month?

 

[Simsung]

I got:
an Urchin
Many trochus snail and spiny astrea snails
a mix of other reef safe snails

I did a course of Fluconasole - it annihilated the bryopsis (I have not done any water changes until it was nearly completely dead, but I did not have much of it so experience may vary).
And I did a course of vibrant

The effect is that I lost nearly 90% of my snail population due to starvation, urchins have CLEARED the tank to the bare rocks and I am trying to get some algae growing back because I'm worried about the tang and blennies not getting the veggies in. I feed them nori all day long to compensate