Bryopsis...Bryopsis...Bryopsis

[RobertTheNurse]

I've tried pulling this weed. Seems to tick it off more. Pulling it by the root - nope. Ive tried Fluconazole to have it only start to come back once medication is removed...

Help!

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

I've tried pulling this weed. Seems to tick it off more. Pulling it by the root - nope. Ive tried Fluconazole to have it only start to come back once medication is removed...

Help!

Keep going with Fluconazole until it stops coming back. Notoriously difficult algae to get rid of. One of the things I did wrong was that I didnt properly follow the dosing on a daily basis while also leaving in carbon. The second time I followe dinstructions to a T (well, I added an extra scoop or so) and it went bye bye.

 

[RobertTheNurse]

Keep going with Fluconazole until it stops coming back. Notoriously difficult algae to get rid of. One of the things I did wrong was that I didnt properly follow the dosing on a daily basis while also leaving in carbon. The second time I followe dinstructions to a T (well, I added an extra scoop or so) and it went bye bye.

Lol I used Blue Life Flux Rx. I only dosed it once. I decided to leave it in the tank for 3 weeks instead of 2. Do I go longer? Thanks for the input!

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

Lol I used Blue Life Flux Rx. I only dosed it once. I decided to leave it in the tank for 3 weeks instead of 2. Do I go longer? Thanks for the input!

It’s not longer, it’s the steady dose. I used the same thing.it’s been a while but if I remember you dose a x scoops per gallon per day. I did an extra day or so treatment. (Obviously..with caution). I also spot treated the stuff. Got a syringe and blasted the mixture right at the stuff.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I've tried pulling this weed. Seems to tick it off more. Pulling it by the root - nope. Ive tried Fluconazole to have it only start to come back once medication is removed...

Help!

Flux is an alternative and at times not a solution. Pulling what you can by hand is first step. The reason it returns is that you did NOT get rid of roots. As lomng as there are roots, it will return. Take a dental pick of small crochet needle and pull roots and discard and you will have it gone.
After pulling roots, adding cleaners such as pitho crabs, chitons, lg astrea snails and pin cusion urchin will help with control.

 

[NickHolmes]

Flux is an alternative and at times not a solution. Pulling what you can by hand is first step. The reason it returns is that you did NOT get rid of roots. As lomng as there are roots, it will return. Take a dental pick of small crochet needle and pull roots and discard and you will have it gone.
After pulling roots, adding cleaners such as pitho crabs, chitons, lg astrea snails and pin cusion urchin will help with control.

Do you do this in-tank? Don't you run the risk of spreading the devil weed with this approach?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Do you do this in-tank? Don't you run the risk of spreading the devil weed with this approach?

In tank although you can pull outside of tank in a bucket of tank water
When pulling roots one by one with a dental pick, should be no mess
Net any loose particulate

 

[Eric R.]

They discussed dealing with bryopsis on reefbeef, if you haven't seen it. They have some tips for effective manual removal and siphoning using either bone shears to scrape the rock then siphon or a tube to pinch and siphon. Also covering/smothering with epoxy. Here's the video:

 

[dedragon]

lettuce nudibranch or sea hare can help tear through bryopsis but will die after if not getting enough algae

 

[a.t.t.r]

Lettuce seaslugs. Get two. They will breed and tear though this stuff.

i now have a separate tank just to grow bryopsis

 

[dedragon]

Lettuce seaslugs. Get two. They will breed and tear though this stuff.

i now have a separate tank just to grow bryopsis

ever thought about selling any and shipping a couple of smaller ones? Maybe captive bred shipped with some bryopsis in bag and they will be better shippers, my LFS doesnt carry as he said they just never make it all the way to the store alive

 

[akurt928]

It Started taking over my tank, I used Vibrant weekly instead of Bi-weekly in combination with 50% water change & it was gone in 3 weeks.

 

[brandon429]

the key with bryopsis is not using the whole tank as the experiment.

you want to know if a doser works? put a test rock in a 5 gallon bucket, make the dilution with the med you want, and pre model the kill and growback and all along keep your display free of the invasion by rasping it all off vs chemical doses of anything including peroxide. quit using whole reefs as experiments



want to know if rasping a rock to remove holdfasts will work, and then some type of spot treatment on the surface afterwards (this is where peroxide does well, not dosed into the water) or if you want to know that fluconazole will work to prevent growback after rasping the surface? do the job in a test reef bucket to check for growback and if it holds well, do the whole tank.

mini modeling is a big helper in many tank invasion challenges. in the meantime you prevent chemical souping mix of the display as a complete guess mode.

bryopsis is interesting in that rarely does anyone wake up to a bearded tank.


it starts with a thimble hitchhiker whisker patch, and then all the hands off training that runs the hobby (sit back, passively watch the takeover, especially for dinos challenges) takes over and beards out the tank in a month and also allows for deep holdfast establishment, so that growback is the real challenge not the initial kill from whatever hands off doser was added into the water.

if we had hands on training, combined with cycling, to kill off these patches at the start- there'd be less complete tank wipeouts.

cycling coaching should nowadays involve:

-human infection training from handling reef surfaces
-the fact cycles don't stall, quit concerning over nitrite etc so the focus can be on the grand scale vs hyperfocus scale. practice assigning cyclers specific start dates, master that ability, use that as cycle training vs open ended wait.
-manual control, not chemical reaction control or allowance, of the expected new tank uglies
-complete training on fish disease from the disease forum, before they ever add fish to the cycled tank.

imagine how many loss trends would be headed off ahead of time with this type of cycle training vs telling everyone they're stalled, and to buy more bottled bac. a bad cycle hasn't killed anyone's fish, those settings above that are most unaddressed sure do all the time in the respective forums.

 

[Jedi1199]

It’s not longer, it’s the steady dose. I used the same thing.it’s been a while but if I remember you dose a x scoops per gallon per day. I did an extra day or so treatment. (Obviously..with caution). I also spot treated the stuff. Got a syringe and blasted the mixture right at the stuff.

Here are the actual package instructions for Flux Rx. It is a one time dose. I used it to great effectiveness in my 55g. I actually just left it in there at about 1/2 dose to maintain my tank.

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

Here are the actual package instructions for Flux Rx. It is a one time dose. I used it to great effectiveness in my 55g. I actually just left it in there at about 1/2 dose to maintain my tank.

Interesting..the one i used had daily instructions for a week of treatment. Gotta go find what I used.

 

[RobertTheNurse]

Hey everyone...thanks for all the input. Sadly, I've tried the manual removal. I am very hesitant to dose this and that into my tank, but, living in Canada we are very limited to meds and other forms of "treatment". I was able to get my hands on some Blue Life FluxRx. And when dosed it kills it, but after the med being out after 3 weeks it's starting to come back. I left it in for 3 weeks.

@Jedi1199 do you just micro dose the tank continuously?

I've thinking of adding the med again now that it is starting to come back to try to kill it before it takes hold again. Possibly leaving for 6 weeks.

 

[Jedi1199]

Hey everyone...thanks for all the input. Sadly, I've tried the manual removal. I am very hesitant to dose this and that into my tank, but, living in Canada we are very limited to meds and other forms of "treatment". I was able to get my hands on some Blue Life FluxRx. And when dosed it kills it, but after the med being out after 3 weeks it's starting to come back. I left it in for 3 weeks.

@Jedi1199 do you just micro dose the tank continuously?

I've thinking of adding the med again now that it is starting to come back to try to kill it before it takes hold again. Possibly leaving for 6 weeks.

I left the original dose for about 3 weeks, then resumed my weekly water change schedule. I change about 10-12 gallons from that tank every week. I simply add about 1/2 of what the directions call for 10 gallons.

 

[N.Sreefer]

My tank was covered, it outcompeted what hair algae was there and covered most of my rockwork (check out my build thread if you want to see a green mess of bryopsis). I bought an icecap ats and a collector urchin at the same time. The collector urchin has literally eaten every last bit of it in a week. Before my ats could make any sort of impact. It rasped off a thin layer of rock and took off the holdfasts so it's now getting replaced by coralline. This was a year long struggle ended by a creature that I didn't expect to even touch the stuff. Funny that the 20 dollar urchin is besting the over 500 dollar ats.

 

[a.t.t.r]

ever thought about selling any and shipping a couple of smaller ones? Maybe captive bred shipped with some bryopsis in bag and they will be better shippers, my LFS doesnt carry as he said they just never make it all the way to the store alive

I shipped a few as juveniles and they shipped fine. Maybe the next batch I get. Currently have about 8 juveniles that have survived and are maybe another few months out to laying eggs again.

 

[dedragon]

I shipped a few as juveniles and they shipped fine. Maybe the next batch I get. Currently have about 8 juveniles that have survived and are maybe another few months out to laying eggs again.

definitely put me on the list, once some grow out i would love to buy a few