6 month black out !

[Flynsqwirl]

So I'm at my wits end with briopsis and add in some aptasia and bubble algae. My tanks been running for over 3 years and I'm ready to take down this tank for a while but really want to keep my live rock since it's pretty established. Think if I threw it in a brute trash can totally blacked out with a pump and a heater for 6 months or so it will kill every thing off? Or should I just give up and bleach it and start to cure it all over?. Used reef flicks 4 months ago and it's just now came back at every spot it was on previously so I doubt I'll when this battle

 

[Keesers]

Hey there sorry about your troubles can be frustrating for sure. Hopefully we can get you some answers before going the bleach route and tearing down. Can you give us and idea of what you have tried what is in tank including fish livestock and inverts please. How old is live rock and was it open ocean live rock or dry that is salt cured ? Again I’m sorry

 

[Flynsqwirl]

Hey there sorry about your troubles can be frustrating for sure. Hopefully we can get you some answers before going the bleach route and tearing down. Can you give us and idea of what you have tried what is in tank including fish livestock and inverts please. How old is live rock and was it open ocean live rock or dry that is salt cured ? Again I’m sorry

Its pukani rock that I cured for 6 months over 3 years ago, I'm kinda ready to restart my tank anyway as I moved and ever since then I've lost all my acros over the last 6 months with icp test and everything is good as far as parameters so that blow has made me over it! I'll be moving in December as I ended up with a slumlord so I'll have to break it down again anyway. I've set up a nano and have been fraging my lps. The buble alge and aptasia I can handle (kinda) lol but this briopsis is brutal. I'm convinced I cant win it in the long run. I have a 70g. With 2 clowns, 2 wrasses, a dragonet, and a copperband butterfly (eating aptasia and live black worms only). Alk 8- cal- 420- mag 1400- sal .026. I just really want to keep my mature rock as I feel it's part of a successful tank. Wondering if totally long term black out will kill everything off

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

You can use Kent tech m to raise mag over 1500 ppm. It will nuke your biopsies. Bright well makes the formula now called hydrat MG. This is what you need to order as it is the old Kent formula. It has worked well for others. Good luck.

 

[Flynsqwirl]

You can use Kent tech m to raise mag over 1500 ppm. It will nuke your biopsies. Bright well makes the formula now called hydrat MG. This is what you need to order as it is the old Kent formula. It has worked well for others. Good luck.

I boosted may mag slowly to over 1600 and my tank didnt like that, I bought a bottle of it but it seems like it might be the old Kent bottlew that would kill it off, a different formula from what I have read .

 

[motortrendz]

Have you tried fluconazole? I had a severe outbreak of briopsis and GHA I used it and slowly over 6 weeks it all melted away briopsis in about 3 weeks gha took longer. But dry skimming and no carbon and no water changes during treatment. If you have to do a water change you have to add the medication back in for the water your changing. It definitely works. And saw no affect to any of my corals.

Aptasia is always tricky... aptaisa x just makes more little ones as you Nuke the big ones they release spores. I found that a good copperband really did the trick in my tank.

Hope some of this Info helped

 

[Flynsqwirl]

Have you tried fluconazole? I had a severe outbreak of briopsis and GHA I used it and slowly over 6 weeks it all melted away briopsis in about 3 weeks gha took longer. But dry skimming and no carbon and no water changes during treatment. If you have to do a water change you have to add the medication back in for the water your changing. It definitely works. And saw no affect to any of my corals.

Aptasia is always tricky... aptaisa x just makes more little ones as you Nuke the big ones they release spores. I found that a good copperband really did the trick in my tank.

Hope some of this Info helped

Yes I've tried it and it worked great but now its coming back the same all of a sudden. How long has yours been free after use. Mine lasted about 3 months. My cbb and emerald crab are working good . I'm really ready to break down this tank and set up once I move . I have another tank that is pest free, for now. Slowly fragging stuff and swapping over.

 

[Flynsqwirl]

I'm really looking about cooking my rock in the dark and if anyones tried long term darkness with pest

 

[motortrendz]

I've been good for about 4 months, with little pop ups here and there but nothing major. Itll pop up then die off in a few days. I would think a long time in a brute can will basically kill everything, everything that doesnt become dormant. And when everything dies off it's going to be a giant nutrient spike, and then a recycle. So if that's what your gonna do then y not just let them sit out on the sun for a few days to dry out, scrub them down with a clean wire brush to make sure you get the dead algae off.. then put them in brite cans with fresh salt water and a bottle of bacteria and let them recycle while you start over.

 

[motortrendz]

Also not a real big fan of bleach... u can use white vinegar, its less toxic.. and I've heard people refer to boiling or cooking rocks (meaning basically to recycle them in a clean environment) but there's some out there that actually have put rocks in boiling water... please dont do that. (This isnt for you but for new reefers reading this) boiling rocks can release toxins, like palytoxin into the air and get everyone extremely sick!

PSA is done. Just had to... lol