Bryopsis?
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nautical_nathaniel
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
Yup, that's bryopsis. All of your herbivore fish not eating it makes sense as well, nothing in my tank would eat the stuff.
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Anything else to try spot treating it with? Most of the rocks it's on I can remove from the tank to spot treat it, so I can make sure none flows over to any corals. If peroxide is the best/only course of action for spot treating will the peroxide kill parts of corals it might come in contact with? How long does the peroxide have to be in contact with the algae to kill the growth on the first try? Thanks for all your guys advice.
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Big question for me is it gonna cause any harm to any of my tank inhabitants like corals of all kinds, the fish, etc...
Perfectly safe. I have all kinds of NPS, Bivalves , filter feeers “weird stuff”. No losses.
mcarroll
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Check out the thread....that's not spot treating.
The idea is to be less invasive on the tank and concentrate just on what you don't want to be growing.Treating the whole tank (or tearing it apart) shouldn't be necessary!
There's lots of room in "the method" to increase the potency....but starting with the basic method as suggested just to get you going should be safe for everything but what you squirt it on. Start small, work carefully and increase potency as needed (based on results) in one or more of the possible ways mentioned in the thread.
The mechanism of action of Fluconazole is based on blocking the synthesis of ERGOSTEROL, a structural lipid present in the cell wall of all fungi and in some green and brown algae, with Bryopsis being one of these. In animals in general the most important structural lipid is cholesterol and, in zooxanthellae Symbiodinium spp, the most important lipids are dinosterol and gorgosterol, whose synthetic routes are not affected by Fluconazol and, therefore, Fluconazol does not affect animals or zooxanthellae .
From the results of thousands of treatments already performed, and reported on several renowned marine aquarium sites in the United States and worldwide, it can be stated that at recommended doses Fluconazole is safe for reef aquaria and highly effective (100%) in the control of the algae Bryopsis sp.
The only care required for treatment is removal of the skimmer cup (leaving it on for aeration) and removal of activated carbon and the like during treatment. It is advisable to leave the GFO online and monitor the nutrients of the aquarium during treatment, by the possibility of nitrate and phosphate release from algae death and its decomposition.
The treatment is done by the dosage of 20 mg / gallon of fluconazole, dissolving the medication as best as possible in good quantities of the aquarium's own water (or RO / DI water), slowly pouring the solution into some area of good circulation and directly into the display. If only one dose is taken, no repetitions are required, and from then on only its effect is expected by monitoring the parameters of interest, especially nutrients.
If there is unbalance of the nutrients that deserve concern, even during the treatment (which may extend for up to two weeks or longer, depending on the resistance of the algae), partial changes of water can be made by replacing the same concentration in the exchange water of the starting dose.
Regards
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Ok guys thanks, read up on the article for treating with Fluconazole, gonna go by my lfs later and pick some up. Now lets see if i got this right, i have about 90 gallons of water so im gonna dose 1000mg, pull carbon and pull the cup on the skimmer. I dont have alot in there so the effects of the die off should be minimal. After about a week i can put the carbon back in and the cup for the skimmer. Does this sound about right? Also are the water changes necessary after a couple weeks of treatment or will the skimmer and carbon get the meds outta the water just fine?
PiscesPower
People protect what they love. - J. Cousteau
Here's a link to my experience. I waited 14 days to put the carbon back in. I have not done any water changes. There was zero impact to anything else in my tank, so I am just letting the skimmer and carbon pull it out. I did switch out carbon for a bag of Chemi-Pure Blue in my reactor. Not for the fluconazole, just because I wanted both phosphate remover and carbon in one small reactor.
Bryopsis in a Triton Method tank
I vote for Fluconazole, it wipes out Bryopsis, hair algae, turf algae and any other algae i had. My fish, corals, inverts and refugium where not affected at all. The only down side for was I lost a lawn mower blenny because he ran out of algae to eat and refused anything else. Your local LFS may not have it, i got mine form the link below
https://www.payless-petproducts.com/fluconazole200.html
https://www.payless-petproducts.com/fluconazole200.html
PiscesPower
People protect what they love. - J. Cousteau
That's where I got it. Easy open capsules, blister packaged.
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Dosed today, took some pics to have to compare to as days go on, time will tell but from reading all the success stories I have no doubt it's gonna work.
