Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole
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Have you started back with your water changes? I didn't know if you were finished with the Flucon treatment or not.
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my algae continued to die for a month and all I did was ato, no water changes. The most improvement happened after day 18 or so.
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I had rust color on the sand bed too but it went away on its own. March 7 was one month for me and I have not done a water change yet. It took full 3 weeks to really say it was a successful treatment. I am just starting to get a film on the glass so I just put GFO and carbon back online.
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Over the course of a week, I changed the complete volume of my tank... 3 large water changes. Going to do another large one this weekend.
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Good to know.
This is what I was hoping, but not liking what I'm seeing with my sps. All major parameters are right where they should be.
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There probably isn't much if any Flucon left in your system then. I had a couple small areas of gha left over from my initial treatment and once I started my water changes those areas went from white /dying off to green and back growing again. No bryopsis came back though so I know it killed all of it,even the roots. I ran a second treatment just to finish off those small spots of gha and as of now I have no algae what so ever in my tank.
Have you checked to see what your NO3 level is at? I've noticed that when mine are low a few of my sps start to darken but quickly recover once I raise it.
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I would advise anyone to take the treatment out to a full 21 days regardless of whether they have bryopsis or GHA. Particularly if you have GHA. I've noticed that I have some GHA in my powerheads, I only took treatment out to 14 days. There's zero bryopsis, but I will be retreating my tank soon. Just to knock out the remaining GHA. I'm making preparations to go 21 days to over a month if need be. 
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Green and brown paly's are a different kind of plague. Well it's nice to know that even if we are plunged into total darkness for years that green paly's will still survive and take over 
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So I am thinking of starting the treatment and have a question. I have been dosing H2O2 for the last few weeks and wondering if i should do a WC before starting with the Fluconazole treatment? Skimmer running with cup off? Any advise?
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I am not certain, but I think it would be useless, and probably killed by the flucanazole.
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Has held steady at about 5 ppm the whole time.
Yes, it was in there for about 3 weeks.
My gha was mostly in my fuge. No bryopsis. Dinos was my main issue in the display and I treated with DinoX for that.
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You should do a water change before treatment. You won't be changing your water for the next 2-3 weeks during treatment.
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Also be sure to read the FAQs in the first post of the thread.
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I haven't noticed any browning or darkening from the Flucon treatment at all. I have just over the last few days started using DinoX though, so I'll keep an eye on everything to see if my sps changes because of it.
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Yeah, i think any issues are related to the DinoX, not flucon.
I'm actually not that comfortable posting in here because of the fact that I threw the DinoX into the mix, but you asked about my water test so I figured I'd keep you updated.
The DinoX went great until close to 2 weeks in. That's when all my urchins started losing their spines and dying off and some coral started to look a bit shabby.
I didn't finish the full 3 week treatment they recommend.
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Yeah, i think any issues are related to the DinoX, not flucon.
I'm actually not that comfortable posting in here because of the fact that I threw the DinoX into the mix, but you asked about my water test so I figured I'd keep you updated.
The DinoX went great until close to 2 weeks in. That's when all my urchins started losing their spines and dying off and some coral started to look a bit shabby.
I didn't finish the full 3 week treatment they recommend.
Don't feel uncomfortable...We're all reefing family here.
I may stop using the Dinox if it's causing these kinds of issues. I'll jump over to your thread so I don't derail this one with dinos.
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Yeah, I hate mine too! LolGreen and brown paly's are a different kind of plague. Well it's nice to know that even if we are plunged into total darkness for years that green paly's will still survive and take over
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Because of you, my rock with goochester zoas that came with a smattering of green paly's from WWC has been banished to the pico! I don't want to risk them escaping into the main display.
