Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole

[icehole]

Admittedly I have not read through the entire thread but I'd like to know what brand name med the OP used and were from it was ordered/purchased. A Google search produced many OTC treatments containing fluconazole however I did not find any in capsule form that did not require a 'script.
Props to awais98 for pointing out that this med is antifungal and not antibacterial.

 

[reefndude]

I believe he ordered from payless pet products

 

[MaccaPopEye]

Admittedly I have not read through the entire thread but I'd like to know what brand name med the OP used and were from it was ordered/purchased. A Google search produced many OTC treatments containing fluconazole however I did not find any in capsule form that did not require a 'script.
Props to awais98 for pointing out that this med is antifungal and not antibacterial.

The forum has a search option you can use on the thread too, if you can do a Google search then it's not much different to do the same here as all that info is in the thread

OP and many others got their Fluconazole from Payless pets. I got mine from a Vet (Australia). I also believe myself and those who ordered from Payless didn't get a brand name drug and it's simply capsules with Fluconazole in them.

 

[prsnlty]

Has anyone ordered from fishantibiotics? Payless will not let me order 30 tablets at a time

I haven't ordered from them but saw on their site that they offer 10, 20 & 60ct

 

[Ryan Martin]

Has anyone ordered from fishantibiotics? Payless will not let me order 30 tablets at a time

I got mine through Payless, I didn't see where they said you can only order 20 at the moment and thought it was just an issue with the website so just placed two back to back 20 capsule orders and after I realized I emailed them and they said it was ok and just sent me the 40

 

[prsnlty]

Admittedly I have not read through the entire thread but I'd like to know what brand name med the OP used and were from it was ordered/purchased. A Google search produced many OTC treatments containing fluconazole however I did not find any in capsule form that did not require a 'script.
Props to awais98 for pointing out that this med is antifungal and not antibacterial.

Payless-petproducts.com will only allow you to get up to 20 capsules and fishantibiotics.com allows up to 60. Both are good sources.

There's a lot of great information in this thread as we made discoveries as while we treated our tanks. Some common and some not so common plus basic do's and don'ts. I would suggest reading as much of the thread as you can as there could be something that could be important to your tank

 

[MounteeFrag]

I just ordered a 10 and a 20 capsule packs from payless. Hopefully everything is ok and the ship

 

[Hyde2406]

Just put my second dose in the first 2 weeks only got rid of about half but I had my skimmer on from day 3 on so this time I've pulled the skimmer I'll give it a good cleaning and keep it out the full 2 weeks, this time I also turkey basted the areas of algae in the hopes that this will help aid in the algae death. Still keeping my refugium algae and scrubber in a bucket outside the system. Hope this is effective this time. I do have spots with low light which are where my problem areas are but I have sponges in those areas and don't want to stress them in anyway

 

[Ryan Martin]

I'm about 5 or 6 days since I dosed the fluconazole I haven't been taking pictures throughout but the pic on the left it's the first day that I dosed and the one on the right I just took about an hour ago, by the progress so far I have no doubts within the next couple days it will most likely all be dead

 

[Ryan Martin]

I did a water change before I dosed the fluconazole and pulled out a few rocks that were covered the worst and scrub them down with a toothbrush so there wasn't so much die off because it was so bad in this tank, I may do a water change within the next few days and do a second dose for the hell of it

 

[prsnlty]

I did a water change before I dosed the fluconazole and pulled out a few rocks that were covered the worst and scrub them down with a toothbrush so there wasn't so much die off because it was so bad in this tank, I may do a water change within the next few days and do a second dose for the hell of it

How long has it been since you did the first dose? Unless you have high no3 I wouldn't do a wc just yet. The majority if not all people have not had no3 spikes. P04 can rise, if so adding gfo back won't hurt anything. The bulk of mine was gone by day 8. It takes time for the algae to soak up the meds from tip to root so wc before 14 days can take out some of the meds. Personally I would just ride out the full 14 days and see how it looks then decide if you need to dose again. (Most people don't need to [emoji2]

 

[100gallonreefer]

I'm at day 8 and agree with above. No no3 or po4 spikes at all. Bryopsis and gha are all disappearing. I can't wait to do wc but will ride it out. This stuff is amazing.

 

[prsnlty]

I'm at day 8 and agree with above. No no3 or po4 spikes at all. Bryopsis and gha are all disappearing. I can't wait to do wc but will ride it out. This stuff is amazing.

Haha yeah, when you get through a week you really start seeing it vanishes day after day, it's SO exciting!!!

 

[manuel732]

What pills are this again I'm having the same problem with algae growth ?

 

[Idaho-reefer]

Day three treatment of my biocube. Starting to get some die off.. have a long way to go still.

I ordered from Payless but if you search for flucon that is the branded name for fluconizole for fish. There are even 100mg tablets on amazon (still cheaper on Payless) I had my order in less than a week. Seemed like a shady website but had zero troubles.

The capsules are marked flunco 200 there are a few other places that show up when you search for that.

 

[prsnlty]

What pills are this again I'm having the same problem with algae growth ?

Everyone needs to read at least 10 pages of this thread. As you need proper information which has been repeated many times. It will give you instruction on how to use it properly provided you have the algae listed and where to get it. It kills most species if not all of bryopsis and green hair algae. However green hair algae takes much longer to die off.

 

[jason_mazzy]

Yes my gha isn't reacting nearly as much. I have added a couple more doses.

 

[Mike S]

Has anyone ordered from fishantibiotics? Payless will not let me order 30 tablets at a time

Yes I ordered from them and received it in a few days. Needed 40 for my system and payless had a limit.

 

[prsnlty]

Yes my gha isn't reacting nearly as much. I have added a couple more doses.

Jason, have you pulled any of it? If so did you before treatment or after you began treatment? How heavy is the coverage? Did you dose 1- 200mg capsule per 10g of wv? Are you running a protein skimmer? How is your lighting? Are you dosing anything other than fluconazole? How many days in are you?

 

[Juliano]

5 days in an the fluconazole is already starting to kill the bryopsis skimmer still off so far so good