Beginning Byropsis

[ntayler]

Hi all. Tank is about at the 10 month mark and I’m finally having success (colors coming back/growth) with my corals after low nutrient issues for a long time. I never had algae issues typical of a new tank (no gha, cyano, or otherwise) likely due to my chronic low nutrients.

Beginning to get a couple patches of Byropsis (yes I’m sure is bryopsis) and just attempted to remove it by hand. That was unsuccessful and I probably will wake up with a hundred new patches of it in the morning lol. I just couldn’t get it all off with fingers or tweezers, stuff is really rooted in the crevices.

At what point should start fluconazole? I don’t think i’m there yet, but I’m assuming the bryopsis will just get worse? Short of manually trying to remove some each week is there anything else I can do?

Parameters:
180 gal total volume
25 ish fish (largest is 7” mag fox)

Sg: 1.025
Ph: 8.2
Alk: 8.0
Calc: 430-450
Mg: 1380
Temp: 78.2
No3: 5-10

**PO4: 0.0 yesterday (was .17 a week ago, and usually around .05) so idk what the heck is up with that right now. Feed the same amount. Bumped up my skimmer production after the high reading, but I cant imagine PO4 going down that much.

I don’t run gfo, no carbon atm, run a filter sock a couple days a week after I clean the glass.

 

[mcarroll]

At what point should start fluconazole?

Never. You don't even have a real problem yet, so why subject your still-new tank to something like that?

Check out...

Algae Cure!! Spot Treating Algae With Peroxide

I don’t run gfo, no carbon atm, run a filter sock a couple days a week after I clean the glass.

I you're not doing anything like GFO or carbon-source dosing to limit PO4, then keep an eye on it....with algae growing it could just be coincidence, but you don't want to be mistaken about that.....as you seem to be aware, zero PO4 is bad, bad, bad.

Try some spot treatments and don't change anything else and see what happens.

 

[ntayler]

Thank you for the link, I never realized you could spot treat like that! I always assumed using hydrogen peroxide was used as a treatment when pulling the rocks out which is not an option. Thank you! Love r2r!