Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole

[Uwharrie]

Close to a year

How long have you had the hammer?

 

[Uwharrie]

What are your parameters? I have hammers and frogspawn and they are not only fine but super happy. I'm thinking there is something going on that you can't see or something... You haven't seen a slimy substance around them have you, kind of brown or tan in color?

I need to re test but everything was fine when I did the water change and treated. No slime no brown or tan.

 

[Hyde2406]

I pulled as much as I could off by hand and then dipping 3 days in peroxide and mine vanished

This might be my next option, half way through second dose but I have lots of shaded areas that get very little light (for my sponges)

 

[prsnlty]

I need to re test but everything was fine when I did the water change and treated. No slime no brown or tan.

Dieing overnight makes me think of brown jelly disease. That's why I asked. What size is your tank again?

 

[Uwharrie]

29 gal Biocube

 

[GoVols]

Dieing overnight makes me think of brown jelly disease. That's why I asked. What size is your tank again?

@prsnlty
Can you spot brown jelly disease by the eye?

 

[prsnlty]

Sometimes yes. Starts clear, looks like slime or even a little like when dinoflagellates when it gets stringy. Killed 2 huge hammers, all but one head off 100+ heads of Duncan overnight.

 

[prsnlty]

If you proceed I would use much caution!
Hammer been in tank one year and dies right after you dose? Something wrong ...maybe overdose?

Yeah something isn't right. This medicine actually made all mine bigger and fluffier.

 

[GoVols]

Sometimes yes. Starts clear, looks like slime or even a little like when dinoflagellates when it gets stringy. Killed 2 huge hammers, all but one head off 100+ heads of Duncan overnight.

Is there a safe treatment for it?

 

[prsnlty]

Is there a safe treatment for it?

Fresh to do dip. That's how I managed to save the last head on the Duncan and half of a bicolor hammer

 

[prsnlty]

I have solutely hate my autocorrect! FRESH RODI lol

 

[GoVols]

Fresh to do dip. That's how I managed to save the last head on the Duncan and half of a bicolor hammer

Dip in fresh RODI water?
If so how long do you dip?

 

[prsnlty]

Dip in fresh RODI water?
If so how long do you dip?

I just swisher it in it then put back in the tank

 

[GoVols]

I just swisher it in it then put back in the tank

Does it always kill fast or can it take awhile to do it's damage?

 

[prsnlty]

Sorry everyone, My phone did an IS update last night... has been a nightmare ever since. Changes most of what I type. Example, RODI always gets changed to "to do" AFTER I click send sometimes too.

 

[prsnlty]

Does it always kill fast or can it take awhile to do it's damage?

I've only had a run-in with it once and it was pretty fast. My corals were perfectly fine and if it wasn't for them suddenly shrinking up right in front of me and watching the brown jelly go from one Coral to another and it's starting to shrink I wouldn't have known the cause.

What this thread is about bryopsis and fluconazole and we're getting off track....

I don't think that fluconazole was the reason the hammer died unless it was somehow overdosed or there wasn't enough flow and it landed on the hammer and the hammer ingested too much.

 

[GoVols]

What this thread is about bryopsis and fluconazole and we're getting off track....

Agree

I was just trying to learn.

 

[prsnlty]

Agree

I was just trying to learn.

Np. You can pm me [emoji6] it's just that when we start deviating and it's really easy to do , it makes it hard for people who are trying to get facts or help. So regular forms are not like Facebook groups for instance and they kind of frown on it for that reason. I just didn't want to get too far off track is all.

What she described to me sounded like brown jelly disease and that's why I brought it up.

 

[prsnlty]

From left to right... Duncan next to aog plays, green hammer at an then all the way right is that giant ball - frogspawn. All AFTER treatment of fluconazole.

 

[prsnlty]

Sb not an