Bryopsis Explosion

[jdp13]

So just a quick update. I dosed the tank with Reef Flux on July 1st. Shut my skimmer and took out my carbon. By July 8th the bryopsis was almost entirely gone! I was battling this for months so it was great to see there is a definite cure for it out there!

Below is a little “before and after” shot. Thanks again for all the tips and comments!

 

[hans4811]

Thought I’d put in my update as well. Dosed my tank on July 2nd with Flux Rx, turned off my skimmer and carbon reactor. It’s now July 11th and it’s all but gone ! There’s a small patch that’s turned white and I expect it to be gone in the next few days. My Chaeto and Caulerpa in my fuge was unaffected, nor was any corals…sps dominate tank 2.5 yrs old.

Interesting discovery with this as well…thought turning off my skimmer I’d see my nutrients rise….just the opposite. I’ve been dosing NP-Bacto-Balance and PNS Probio on a daily basis and nutrients dropped to 1 N03 and 0.01 P04, my lowest to date. May just leave my skimmer off, we‘ll see.

I will say that I didnt have a huge amount, patches of it in maybe 4 spots. Made the mistake of trying to manually remove it, which just caused it to spread at which point I dosed the fluc.

Great product and great thread !

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

Thought I’d put in my update as well. Dosed my tank on July 2nd with Flux Rx, turned off my skimmer and carbon reactor. It’s now July 11th and it’s all but gone ! There’s a small patch that’s turned white and I expect it to be gone in the next few days. My Chaeto and Caulerpa in my fuge was unaffected, nor was any corals…sps dominate tank 2.5 yrs old.

Interesting discovery with this as well…thought turning off my skimmer I’d see my nutrients rise….just the opposite. I’ve been dosing NP-Bacto-Balance and PNS Probio on a daily basis and nutrients dropped to 1 N03 and 0.01 P04, my lowest to date. May just leave my skimmer off, we‘ll see.

I will say that I didnt have a huge amount, patches of it in maybe 4 spots. Made the mistake of trying to manually remove it, which just caused it to spread at which point I dosed the fluc.

Great product and great thread !

Stick with the full treatment even if you think it’s gone as it may come back. Some people do a second treatment back to back at different doses. I’ve never had to do that.

 

[The District Reef]

I was aggressive with water changes and manual removal, but the bryopsis in my tank kept spreading like wildfire. I finally gave FluxRx a try, and it really was a miracle cure. No impact to any of my coral (a lot of torches, scolys, acros, leathers, etc). Only thing I noticed was that my water turned slightly green from all the die off, but the combination of my skimmer, UV sterilizer, and carbon cleared that right up once the treatment had run its course.

 

[jdp13]

I was aggressive with water changes and manual removal, but the bryopsis in my tank kept spreading like wildfire. I finally gave FluxRx a try, and it really was a miracle cure. No impact to any of my coral (a lot of torches, scolys, acros, leathers, etc). Only thing I noticed was that my water turned slightly green from all the die off, but the combination of my skimmer, UV sterilizer, and carbon cleared that right up once the treatment had run its course.

Yeah I’m going to wait the “21 days” like instructed then I’m going to do a large water change.

I also didn’t see any ill effects to the corals.

 

[hans4811]

Stick with the full treatment even if you think it’s gone as it may come back. Some people do a second treatment back to back at different doses. I’ve never had to do that.

Yup…may do another 2nd dose just to be sure.

 

[Morpheosz]

So just a quick update. I dosed the tank with Reef Flux on July 1st. Shut my skimmer and took out my carbon. By July 8th the bryopsis was almost entirely gone! I was battling this for months so it was great to see there is a definite cure for it out there!

Below is a little “before and after” shot. Thanks again for all the tips and comments!

I hope this works for you but don't get your hopes up too high. That was exactly my experience the 2 times I treated over the past few months, but both times it started creeping back after 4-6 weeks. It looks like a miracle out of the gate but I think there are always bits left over. Seem to be in the dark crevices where it comes back probably because, like others have said, you need the light + the meds. I have been filling in over the patches in crevices with Tunze coral gum now (because it's easy to use and matches my coralline) in the hopes I can get kill off the stuff that is shaded and will likely try a 3rd round of fluc.

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

Was the bryopsis eliminated completely ?

 

[Morpheosz]

I know I'm not the one you are asking but I can weigh in that my 3rd round seems to have knocked it out for good (fingers crossed). I did leave the dose in for quite a bit longer - a full month - before water change / carbon / etc. Thankfully my nutrient levels are pretty low naturally so it wasn't a big deal to essentially be without the skimmer for a month. I also added a scribbled rabbitfish which supposedly eats it (did see him pick at a bit of leftovers) so there is a chance he's keeping it at bay but I doubt he'd be thorough enough to eliminate any trace of it as it used to peek out all over the place. It has been 4-5 months now.