Bropsis? Algae ID?

[Reef of Fillory]

I've had this growing slowly for a while and I pick it off of the rock occasionally. I'm adjusting my system (adding sump/refugium/oversized skimmer) and am wondering if it is bryopsis and if I should treat it.

My lawnmower blenny, hermit crabs and snails don't touch it

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Looks like little feathers/ferns, so Bryopsis. I've found nothing really will eat it until it is the only thing to eat (i.e. don't feed the tank for a few days) If it gets too out of control you can use the fluconazole treatment.

 

[Reef of Fillory]

Looks like little feathers/ferns, so Bryopsis. I've found nothing really will eat it until it is the only thing to eat (i.e. don't feed the tank for a few days) If it gets too out of control you can use the fluconazole treatment.

That's what I thought, gonna throw some flucanazole in the tank after getting it re-set up to get rid of it all.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

That's what I thought, gonna throw some flucanazole in the tank after getting it re-set up to get rid of it all.

Make sure you do the dosage correctly, some people have been floating around the notion that you need to dose over time, but it worked best for me to do the whole dosage at once.

 

[Reef of Fillory]

Make sure you do the dosage correctly, some people have been floating around the notion that you need to dose over time, but it worked best for me to do the whole dosage at once.

What i've been reading [on the sticky] shows 20ml/gallon - i'm guessing that this is still the recommended dosage, and that there hasn't been more information regarding a change in effective dosage?

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

What i've been reading [on the sticky] shows 20ml/gallon - i'm guessing that this is still the recommended dosage, and that there hasn't been more information regarding a change in effective dosage?

Milliliters/gallon is a concentration for a liquid to liquid dilution. Since Fluconazole is a solid, you want to dilute it in milligrams per gallon or milligrams per liter. I personally did 5mg/L which was the recommended dosage on several other threads on here.

One US Gallon is roughly 3.79 Liters so multiply your tanks total capacity (display tank + sump capacity [if you have a sump]) by that number and then times it by 5 to get the total milligrams you will need. You won't get the exact number in milligrams of your whatever the concentration of your fluconozole tablets are, so you'll need to do some rounding.

For instance, my tank is 20 gallons so ~60 liters
60 L x 5 mg/l = 300 mg
300 mg / 200 mg/pill = 1.5 pills (I added a little more than half to compensate for my aggressive rounding in the first part)

Check out my personal thread about treating bryopsis with fluconozole here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/success-with-fluconazole-nano-reef-edition.318364/

Let me know if you have any other questions

 

[Reef of Fillory]

haha yeah that was just a miss-type on units there in my post

 

[stevo01]

Ive used two 200mg caps for 20g and it was fine.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

haha yeah that was just a miss-type on units there in my post

Okay, that makes sense now! I was really confused and thought someone had come up with a liquid fluconazole treatment without me hearing about it!

Forgot to add, this stuff is pretty hard to mix all the way, I put it in a little jar with some tank water and stir for several minutes without it dissolving completely. I then put it in a water bottle filled about halfway with tank water and shook the devil out of it and that worked much better.

 

[Reef of Fillory]

I just read about a few peoples experience with having dino outbreaks after using the fluc to treat bryopsis, have you encountered anything like this?

Ive used two 200mg caps for 20g and it was fine.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I just read about a few peoples experience with having dino outbreaks after using the fluc to treat bryopsis, have you encountered anything like this?

Nope. Never seen it happen for other folks either. The anti fungal should not be a driving force behind Dino's.
Fwiw many can't tell he difference between Dino and cyano. Lots of dead algae will cause cyano.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Fwiw. The reason some are staggering the dose was from gha experiments. Gha got knocked back from the first dose , but was finished off by the second.

 

[stevo01]

I just read about a few peoples experience with having dino outbreaks after using the fluc to treat bryopsis, have you encountered anything like this?

Nope

 

[Zack K]

Their is a type of cowrie that has been known to have a 50/50 shot at eating bryopsis. I believe it is a tiger cowrie but I’m not entirely sure. Worked for me, didn’t work for a buddy. Worth a shot IMO

**EDIT**. It is the Chestnut Cowry

 

[Reef of Fillory]

Their is a type of cowrie that has been known to have a 50/50 shot at eating bryopsis. I believe it is a tiger cowrie but I’m not entirely sure. Worked for me, didn’t work for a buddy. Worth a shot IMO

**EDIT**. It is the Chestnut Cowry

Thanks for the suggestion, so many people have had success with the other treatment method that it's hard to choose adding more animals I don't want to get rid of it [emoji17]

 

[Reef of Fillory]

Got some better pictures

 

[stevo01]

Did you dose Fluconazole?

 

[Reef of Fillory]

Did you dose Fluconazole?

Haven't dosed yet, still working on a few plumbing things then once it's all set back up i'll dose it. Hurt my back over the weekend so things have been moving slow =O