Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole

CoralNerd · Feb 5, 2017

I don't do water changes so...I'll play this out then if needed I can deploy my last 8 200mg.

Rick.45cal · Feb 5, 2017

What's your Mg level at? Mine was 1530ppm at the time I dose fluconazole

CoralNerd · Feb 5, 2017

1689 mg or so...it's come down to 1650

KenO · Feb 5, 2017

CoralNerd said:
2019

Anyone run super high magnesium, maybe my super high mag made the medicine less potent?

My Mg level is 1500ppm. I am 6 days on my 45 gallon. My bryopsis turned white and died within 3 days. My gha is turning white/grey.

My nano is much lower around 1350ppm. I am 9 days in and the nano reacted very differently. The Bryopsis never turned white. It turned into a green matted mess and began falling apart. It is dying but taking its sweet time.

Rick.45cal · Feb 5, 2017

KenO said:
My Mg level is 1500ppm. I am 6 days on my 45 gallon. My bryopsis turned white and died within 3 days. My gha is turning white/grey.

My nano is much lower around 1350ppm. I am 9 days in and the nano reacted very differently. The Bryopsis never turned white. It turned into a green matted mess and began falling apart. It is dying but taking its sweet time.

What are the light differences between the two tanks?

trido · Feb 6, 2017

Rick.45cal said:
This is the most economical solution.
https://www.payless-petproducts.com/fluconazole200.html

I've spent probably close to $1,000 to NOT beat bryopsis in an 200 gallon system. Even that price from Dr. Foster's Smith is reasonable in my opinion. Especially since it works. Remember this is only a one time dose!

Thanks for the link everyone. $80 is the price two gallons of Tech-M cost eight years ago. I can deal with that.

Rick, I would have broke down the tank and nuked the rock long before spending a grand on algea.

KenO · Feb 6, 2017

Rick.45cal said:
What are the light differences between the two tanks?

My 45 has 500-600 PAR just under the water's surface. Floor levels range 150-200 PAR.
My nano is around 300 PAR and 100 PAR at the floor.

KenO · Feb 6, 2017

For those that have tried Flucon in FW tanks, can you post your tank's info? Things like is your tank planted? Low tech vs High tech. CO2 or not. Tank inhabitants, etc. Thanks.....

bawalitt · Feb 6, 2017

I tarred my skimmer today and it went crazy pulling out whitish foam.

Another thing I have noticed which is what others have seen is that the rocks closer to the light source are getting effected faster than the low lying areas of the tank

d2mini · Feb 6, 2017

I'm starting this tonite. My 200mg fluconazole arrive today.
I have some dinos in the display and HA taking over the fuge.
Anything I should know that is not on the first page?
My tank is a Triton tank which relies on a large healthy algae bed (refugium) with Chaeto and other macros.

NCreefguy · Feb 6, 2017

d2mini said:
I'm starting this tonite. My 200mg fluconazole arrive today.
I have some dinos in the display and HA taking over the fuge.
Anything I should know that is not on the first page?
My tank is a Triton tank which relies on a large healthy algae bed (refugium) with Chaeto and other macros.

We've had several people run this treatment with different macros and none of them have reported any adverse reactions. It won't have an effect on your dinos but it will take out your gha. It may take a little longer on your gha if it's not a high par area but it will still work.

bawalitt · Feb 6, 2017

Here are some pics at the 72 hour mark

NCreefguy · Feb 6, 2017

bawalitt said:
Here are some pics at the 72 hour mark

Flucon is jumping all on that algae!! It won't be long now.

ChrisQ0904 · Feb 6, 2017

Could changing filter socks cause the medicine to be removed? Today is day 7 and the bryopsis is most certainly starting to grow back after and steady and strong decline. The only thing I did different was change my filter socks because they were clogged

d2mini · Feb 6, 2017

NCreefguy said:
We've had several people run this treatment with different macros and none of them have reported any adverse reactions. It won't have an effect on your dinos but it will take out your gha. It may take a little longer on your gha if it's not a high par area but it will still work.

Oh the HA is definitely in a high par area. lol
Do we know why it won't effect the dinos? That brown snot (assuming it's dinos) is driving me crazy.

Forgot to mentinon I have Bryopsis in the nano so i'm treating that too.

bawalitt · Feb 6, 2017

NCreefguy said:
Flucon is jumping all on that algae!! It won't be long now.

Definitely hope so
The smile is getting bigger every day

cnseekatz · Feb 6, 2017

I'm happy to report that my treatment was a total and complete success. There is no more bryopsis in my tank.

Day 12

NCreefguy · Feb 6, 2017

d2mini said:
Oh the HA is definitely in a high par area. lol
Do we know why it won't effect the dinos? That brown snot (assuming it's dinos) is driving me crazy.

Don't know why yet(twilliard is researching it)...I can only tell you that it didn't have any effect on my dinos and it's driving me crazy too. I have an ever growing list of things that I've tried to get rid of the brown slime and while I can blow it off the rocks with a powerhead,it laughs(I can hear it) and comes right back the next day.

NCreefguy · Feb 6, 2017

cnseekatz said:
I'm happy to report that my treatment was a total and complete success. There is no more bryopsis in my tank.

Day 12

Day 12

Day 12

Day 12

Perfect! Congrats on the Bryopsis free tank!

NCreefguy · Feb 6, 2017

ChrisQ0904 said:
Could changing filter socks cause the medicine to be removed? Today is day 7 and the bryopsis is most certainly starting to grow back after and steady and strong decline. The only thing I did different was change my filter socks because they were clogged

I changed my filter socks to mess socks during treatment so I'm not sure if others have ran their regular sock or not. If it's coming back I would say enough of the meds were removed somehow to allow it to regrow. Nobody else has had this happen yet.