Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole

[Scorpius]

Will be 24hrs today at 2pm. No noticeable difference yet. Man I'm impatient. lol

 

[NCreefguy]

Sample sent out today. Will report back in 7-10 days.

I'm still getting tons of what appears to be diatoms... deep brown rust color on the sand bed.
And my sps are turning dark/dull.

Have you started back with your water changes? I didn't know if you were finished with the Flucon treatment or not.

 

[Victoria M]

Im at day 11 now, was expecting the Bryopsis to have cleared by now, but still there (although doesnt appear to have grown since, and has dulled a bit in colour) - I picked some out today as it was bothering me (I know this is against advice).
So - at Day 14, do I run a WC, then run another dose for 14 days, Re-dose without the WC, or run WC, without another dose, in the hope it is just slow to react?

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.

 

[Victoria M]

Sample sent out today. Will report back in 7-10 days.

I'm still getting tons of what appears to be diatoms... deep brown rust color on the sand bed.
And my sps are turning dark/dull.

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.

 

[d2mini]

Have you started back with your water changes? I didn't know if you were finished with the Flucon treatment or not.

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.

 

[d2mini]

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.

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.

 

[NCreefguy]

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.

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.

 

[Rick.45cal]

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.

 

[Rick.45cal]

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

 

[schroedel]

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?

 

[frenkkk]

guys last question ...
but I can continue during treatment to administer Phytoplankton?
or and useless?

 

[Victoria M]

I am not certain, but I think it would be useless, and probably killed by the flucanazole.

 

[d2mini]

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.

Has held steady at about 5 ppm the whole time.

Did you finished the treatment?

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.

 

[NCreefguy]

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?

You should do a water change before treatment. You won't be changing your water for the next 2-3 weeks during treatment.

 

[NCreefguy]

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?

Also be sure to read the FAQs in the first post of the thread.

 

[NCreefguy]

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.

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.

 

[d2mini]

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.

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.

 

[NCreefguy]

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.

 

[prsnlty]

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

Yeah, I hate mine too! Lol

 

[Rick.45cal]

Yeah, I hate mine too! Lol

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.