Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole
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You try this??Wow! Thats great Jose. Although I think thats not available in the United States without a prescription. Bummer!I think here in the states I might be relegated to buying the cheap Chinese-Philippines stuff that I bought last time for my fish. I'd love to get pharmaceutical grade made here in Illinois but it probably won't be an option. I think all of this stuff is the same for me just re-formulated into different brands and coming from the same un-regulated source.;Nailbiting
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That's what I am using @Triggreef. But I am also on my 2nd attempt.
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20mg per gal worked great for me. The Bryopsis and hair algae are gone! I don’t do water changes, after 3 months nothing has come back. Cheato still grows. Clams and corals and shrimps are fine. I got my drugs from a source in Thailand. Way cheaper than anywhere in the states. Since I used them for my “fish tank” I guess no US laws were broken.
20mg per gal worked great for me. The Bryopsis and hair algae are gone! I don’t do water changes, after 3 months nothing has come back. Cheato still grows. Clams and corals and shrimps are fine. I got my drugs from a source in Thailand. Way cheaper than anywhere in the states. Since I used them for my “fish tank” I guess no US laws were broken.
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Does all Bryopsis have the small fern like structures ?
I have an algae that I have been fighting for awhile that I now think is bryopsis but it doesn’t have the small fern like ends that everyone describes ?
I have an algae that I have been fighting for awhile that I now think is bryopsis but it doesn’t have the small fern like ends that everyone describes ?
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I just read your notice about people being PM'd to not try it, how strange anyone cares that much lol! its a cure tool among cure tools. ABout twenty seven thousand bryopsis growers now love this stuff, id for sure keep caps on hand if I had a large tank too. Fluc earned placement in our permanent arsenal options really quick, much faster than peroxide did for sure. no fluc shaming heh. That doesn't mean in posts out in public I don't try and persuade nano reefers focus on hand grazing vs any chems as the initial approach, but then again there are some times we have them use Fluc as well... depends on the situation. Fluc might be the single best bryopsis cure ive ever seen if a hands off method is warranted. Vibrant gets the award for best valonia treatment ever discovered, kudos to treatment options via the water there is a massive massive demand for that option.
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As far as all of the info that I've found about Bryopsis,yes it all has some type of fern like structures.
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Yeah there are always at least one of those people around who think that they are saving the world from each other without caring about the destruction they themselves do to the earth on a daily basis.
We've got tanks now that haven't had a water change in almost a year after treatment without any algae what so ever growing in them. We aren't seeing any ill effects so far from long term, low dose continuous usage either so things are going great.Using Flucon is definitely here to stay.
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Agreed
One reason I push for rasping and forcing out invasions as the first go habit, surely in smaller tanks if not all, is because it’s a pan-generic universal invasion prevention trait. It’s good old fashioned gardening. Safe back pocket habit and skill to have for whatever the invader, majanos to aiptasia to bryopsis to asparagopsis.
Nothing beats knifing out an invasion on removed rocks...outside of tank, rinsed in a sink using clean saltwater so bits don’t recirculate, but that’s only easy for small tanks and keepers have to merge through the gentle toothbrush phase to ever get to the phase that works.
They will never start with a knife, that’s too barbaric. By the time a few toothbrushings didn’t unroot a set-in invader, they lose faith in external work and we lose them to the invasion (they start over)
Our manual scraping/knife tip debriding option trades off caloric/repeated human work for a given space in an aquarium to be invader free. It trains being commanding, at least for one spot.
High effort, good reliable outcome, but markets always shift towards efficiency over time it’s not just after pics. Most people wait till deep into an invasion to get serious, fluc is ideal in that mode for it’s indicated species because it saves work and is the best bet out there for bryopsis catch up, which is 97% of bryopsis challenges.
**we had some tanks so bad of bryopsis, peroxide wasn’t working, fluc did, that means fluc beats peroxide within its niche... and I’m clearly slanted towards peroxide. The specific case example for that claim is poster pjanssen’s build thread on nano-reef.com. Even rasping was challenging her tank bc the plants were rooted deep, and her rock exceptionally porous. Fluc saved her tank.
Fluc is restricted to a very tight range of susceptibles, for example I can’t cure red gelidium tanks with it, so I always push that new keepers develop the duality of being able to both force control a given rock while they also employ the newest methods of the day, have a multi tool approach to reefing. Why can’t all dissensions be written that nicely heh
That this thread is +200 pages remarks on amazing momentum. I see reefcentral fluc threads showing similar outcomes as we do here, Brian D is directly humble and thankful for that I’m positive. He secretly wants to thank you all for helping his own tank, and the sharing of info between the two sites has made him reflect kindly on the benefits of information sharing, without asterisks.
Nano reef.com has fluc success, the chem cannot be debated in its niche. Peroxide is a niche, I’d never use it on cyano or aiptasia etc but where it shines it shines. If I had a large tank and bryopsis showed up at the very bottom after I took careful time guiding in a scape before I stacked it like a skyscraper, I would for sure 110% dose a lot of fluc to that system, bryopsis is ebil.
One reason I push for rasping and forcing out invasions as the first go habit, surely in smaller tanks if not all, is because it’s a pan-generic universal invasion prevention trait. It’s good old fashioned gardening. Safe back pocket habit and skill to have for whatever the invader, majanos to aiptasia to bryopsis to asparagopsis.
Nothing beats knifing out an invasion on removed rocks...outside of tank, rinsed in a sink using clean saltwater so bits don’t recirculate, but that’s only easy for small tanks and keepers have to merge through the gentle toothbrush phase to ever get to the phase that works.
They will never start with a knife, that’s too barbaric. By the time a few toothbrushings didn’t unroot a set-in invader, they lose faith in external work and we lose them to the invasion (they start over)
Our manual scraping/knife tip debriding option trades off caloric/repeated human work for a given space in an aquarium to be invader free. It trains being commanding, at least for one spot.
High effort, good reliable outcome, but markets always shift towards efficiency over time it’s not just after pics. Most people wait till deep into an invasion to get serious, fluc is ideal in that mode for it’s indicated species because it saves work and is the best bet out there for bryopsis catch up, which is 97% of bryopsis challenges.
**we had some tanks so bad of bryopsis, peroxide wasn’t working, fluc did, that means fluc beats peroxide within its niche... and I’m clearly slanted towards peroxide. The specific case example for that claim is poster pjanssen’s build thread on nano-reef.com. Even rasping was challenging her tank bc the plants were rooted deep, and her rock exceptionally porous. Fluc saved her tank.
Fluc is restricted to a very tight range of susceptibles, for example I can’t cure red gelidium tanks with it, so I always push that new keepers develop the duality of being able to both force control a given rock while they also employ the newest methods of the day, have a multi tool approach to reefing. Why can’t all dissensions be written that nicely heh
That this thread is +200 pages remarks on amazing momentum. I see reefcentral fluc threads showing similar outcomes as we do here, Brian D is directly humble and thankful for that I’m positive. He secretly wants to thank you all for helping his own tank, and the sharing of info between the two sites has made him reflect kindly on the benefits of information sharing, without asterisks.
Nano reef.com has fluc success, the chem cannot be debated in its niche. Peroxide is a niche, I’d never use it on cyano or aiptasia etc but where it shines it shines. If I had a large tank and bryopsis showed up at the very bottom after I took careful time guiding in a scape before I stacked it like a skyscraper, I would for sure 110% dose a lot of fluc to that system, bryopsis is ebil.
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I dosed about 1.5 weeks ago for GHA, absolutely getting the job done. Been dosing vibrant before and during 2x a week and my nutrients still don't register on my API kits. I do have diatoms showing up, so they are definitely still there. Question remains on if this treatment holds if I keep the nutrients down, or if it all pops back up. Only time will tell.
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You would just do 500mg once. You don’t dose daily.
