Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole

[Sabellafella]

I treated my tank last week Thursday at a rate of 5mg/gallon. I had some product on hand but not enough for the full rate treatment. Today my bryopsis is essentially gone on my 300 gal system. AMAZING. Looks like the lower limit of the dose could be explored.

Good stuff here, could save reefers some money!

 

[cnseekatz]

Good stuff here, could save reefers some money!

Seriously... I ordered 30 pills, just because... and only used 5. I guess I can keep some on hand in case the treatment doesn't work, or isn't permanent.

 

[Sabellafella]

I would continue using the suggested ammount until proper controlled research has been done to determine lower level of treatment. @twilliard cough, cough. We worry about the creating a resistant species. Is this what happened with the high Mg treatments?

You know what, i was thinking about something like this but the more i got into it, its very unlikely this would happen. I guess yea in a way its possible. Maybe in the ocean, if bryopsis was getting treatment constantly, without a doubt theyll be a resistant strain. Odds are almost near none with the aquarium treatment. Who knows, cool topic though.

 

[KenO]

Not true. Ive read information that suggests otherwise. The missing ingredient believed to be LiCl. So we moved onto a high MG with LiCl from Kents new company. If he took the recipe you would think this would be it right? No better results. And results were terrible. And I bombed it hard.

I raised my Mg with the Tech M to 2000ppm and it did cut it down, but it came back with a vengeance once I stopped the Tech M. All the Tech M did was kill all my snails.

 

[PeterErc]

I treated my tank last week Thursday at a rate of 5mg/gallon. I had some product on hand but not enough for the full rate treatment. Today my bryopsis is essentially gone on my 300 gal system. AMAZING. Looks like the lower limit of the dose could be explored.

cool, good news!! was texting a buddy earlier if I should try a half dose for the sake of the hobby, or do full dose and be done with it. Going to do a half dose and see, meds should be here Thursday

 

[Sabellafella]

Everyone thats doing treatment, if you get the chance, please post all your observations. Still trying to figure out a solid reason to why this stuff works

 

[Sabellafella]

cool, good news!! was texting a buddy earlier if I should try a half dose for the sake of the hobby, or do full dose and be done with it. Going to do a half dose and see, meds should be here Thursday

One of the first few.that tryed it, had success with half the basically recommended dose. So i wouldnt see an issue

 

[Sabellafella]

Seriously... I ordered 30 pills, just because... and only used 5. I guess I can keep some on hand in case the treatment doesn't work, or isn't permanent.

Well hey! You never know, this potentially can be a protocol treatment in qt, or permnant treatment for the future. I think its a good thing to have on hand

 

[ksanfranfan]

I treated my tank last week Thursday at a rate of 5mg/gallon. I had some product on hand but not enough for the full rate treatment. Today my bryopsis is essentially gone on my 300 gal system. AMAZING. Looks like the lower limit of the dose could be explored.

That's good to know. I thought about trying a lower dosage at first but was scared I wouldn't get the same or fast enough results. Hopefully we can also see some tests of people treating in increments of the recommended or smaller dosage amounts.
Glad it was successful for you.

 

[ksanfranfan]

My 10 are ordered how long is it taking to ship out and arrive at the destination.

Took my order 3 days. Shipped from Minnesota to Dallas.

 

[nezw0001]

At 5 mg/ gallon and 300 gallons that was 1500mgs or 10 - 150 mg pills. Very unlikely to create resistance to an anti fungal. As a veterinarian I work with meds and resistance daily. I kept UV, lights and skimmer on but carbon OFF.

 

[ksanfranfan]

Day 5 before and after pics.

70g 1800mg dose

29g biocube 600mg dose

The bryopsis is pretty much dead in most of the spots throughout most of the tanks. It's just holding on by strands. The lower light areas seems like they are a day or 2 behind from day to day when it comes to dying. I expect by this weekend both tanks will close to being bryopsis free. I'm very tempted to start pulling what I can get to out by hand to help things out.
Not sure if my bubble algae is dying or still in the same state it was since starting treatment. Chaeto in both tanks seems to be fine at 5 days in.

 

[stevo01]

Can we get a count on # of members that are using Fluconazole right now? @NCreefguy and maybe another member or two that are finished 1st round.

 

[Jimr7]

This looks great. Has anybody tried it in a tank with anemones? Have a big hair algae problem in my carpet anemone tank.

 

[stevo01]

This looks great. Has anybody tried it in a tank with anemones? Have a big hair algae problem in my carpet anemone tank.

Yes there has not been any nems injured yet.

 

[stevo01]

Maybe add a poll to this thread. Are you treating your system with Fluconazole? Vote yes = 1

 

[ChrisQ0904]

Can we get a count on # of members that are using Fluconazole right now? @NCreefguy and maybe another member or two that are finished 1st round.

Just started day 1 today

 

[Rick.45cal]

I'm 7 days into treatment, and I can only find a few strands in the back still seemingly barely clinging to existance.

 

[stevo01]

Day 7 here as well. Still have strands holding on, including gha. 75% better.

 

[Donovan Joannes]

I started somewhere on the 15th December last year. All bryopsis was dead and gone early January. Still no sign of it today. The rocks are sparkling clean as it were 2.5 years ago.