Algae issues

[dhekerpp]

Hello, I'm not a expert but did you have a lawnmower blenny?

 

[Brandon42]

Okay so I tried to get some better pictures of the gha I have to see if it's byropsis. Still unsure, it looks branchy but it doesn't really look feathery like all the images of byropsis looks. Will the fluconazole work on all types of gha?

 

[Brandon42]

I would try a sea hare

I have had one for about 2 months now.

Hello, I'm not a expert but did you have a lawnmower blenny?

Iv had one of these for about 7 months, mostly just eats fish food now.

 

[Antlrman]

Yes. It will work on this algea. I would try it! You have nothing to lose. Results using it have been great across the board from my short amount of experience with it and from my reading about many others that have tried it in the past month. I am 1 week in today and I am 80% rid of GHA and Bryopsis. All I can say is that it worked for me.

 

[Trueblue17]

definitly give Fluconazole a try , im impressed it works excellent , I also dose vinegar and between the two, my algea is dying like crazy on day 5 of one 150mg Fluconazole in my 55g

 

[Trueblue17]

lol their gonna have to ramp up production big time at the Fluconazole Plant

 

[ReefNo0ob]

three words...algae turf scrubber, seriously, you can build one for like 12 dollars. If you can use your return water to run it after the uv or something, you get the added benefit of not using a pump to run it, and the light shedding off should be enough for the macro algae, opposing light schedule. I have 160 gallons of water using a very small ats it like 8 inches long hangs about 14, high nutrients, no unwanted algae in the display, 3 hermit crabs, 1 turbo snail, 7 shrimp that pretty much have nothing to eat until i feed the tank or they get at the nori clip. They are so simple to maintain, little tricky to fine tune at first, but the way your growing that algae it should transfer itself to growing on the screen, if you build it right you could probably be pulling handfulls of algae once a week, then when its under control anything else looking to grow will grow on the screen.

Youre my kinda guy! Haha built one tapped into my return pump all together including the led hydroponic grow lights and clamp fixtures it was like $40 or $50 this is growth after like a month and a half with low bioload

 

[Steve McGlamery]

Can I put in my two cents???? I just solved a hair algae problem in my 120 gal mixed reef tank. It took 5 months to solve.I tried everything...Read books, R2R, LFS etc nothing worked. No3 5 ppm (Nyos) PO4 0.00 (Hanna). Only feed once a day. Manually removing the algae. Spent a lot of money on more CUC. Nothing worked. Then I relate really started to crashad somewhere to raise my Magnesium To 1800 ppm. (I never got it that high though). Started to raise the Magnesium. I started to remove the rocks that I could remove easily and washed them with 3% Hydrogen Peroxide. Got a big bottle with a squirt top and would squirt the rock down and let it set for about 4 minutes and put it back in the tank. Still manually removed as much as I could. Kept raising Magnesium. (it got to about 1500 pp when I stopped dosing).I was starting to win.... Then I decreased my photo period. Algae really started to crash. Kept up with the H2O2 treatments and the manual removal. I now have 99% of the Hair algae gone. But I keep asking the important question....What actually got rid of the hair algae? A combination of every thing or just one thing? If I had to guess....reducing the photo period had the biggest effect. I hope this helps.

 

[Rick.45cal]

Fluconazole! You really have nothing too lose. It will likely work without any casualties! If it works you will have your tank back!
Here's the stickied thread:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bryopsis-cure-my-battle-with-bryopsis-using-fluconazole.285096/

Here's the original thread:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fluconazole-x-bryopsis.283998/

Here's the link to get the fluconazole capsules: you need a 1 time dose of 200mg/10 gallons.
https://www.payless-petproducts.com/fluconazole200.html

I won't guarantee it will work, but it has worked on other algaes. The non bryopsis, green hair algae, derbesia type algaes seem to take longer before the effects are seen but it seems to kill them off. It completely eliminated the bryopsis I had been battling for 8-9 months. (My tank is in those threads). Join us and hopefully you can regain control of your tank. (Come to the dark side... we have cookies!)

 

[Brandon42]

i do like cookies lol

after reading about 55 pages on that thread im going to give the fluconazole a try, seems a ton of people are having great success. my algae is deffinitly derbrsia i think and not bryopsis but hopefully itll work for me. would be really nice to see my rocks again lol

 

[Antlrman]

Before Fluconazole and 13 days after! 100% gone

 

[Brandon42]

Before Fluconazole and 13 days after! 100% gone

i am three days in with mine, dosed 2000 mg into it on monday. starting to see some of my gha getting less green.