Byropsis in fallow tank

[Wildreefs]

Hello all, I had a ich outbreak in my tank, and behind I have so many fish, I decided to pull most for the live rock out, with the sps frags glued to them, and run them fallow for at least 45 days while I treat the fish in main tank.

I moved the rock and coral out nearly 3 weeks ago, about 100 pounds of rock, as well as 70-80 acros frags.

never saw byropsis in my main tank while the corals were in there. (Tank started up last November, corals in there since April/May)

now that corals are fishless , I am seeing fern like plants on the rock in the fishless coral trough (100 gallon Rubbermaid , 75 gallons of water, moved my lights over and a pump)

I don’t feed this tank, once a week I dose Red Sea aminos. I’d say the algae appeared over the last 7 days or so. Weird, didn’t have it in main tank (not that I saw) and moved rock along with water to trough. Figured it would be in main tank before, since fish don’t eat it anyway, plus now almost no food goes into to coral tank, so it’s not like I’m throwing in a ton of phosphate or detritus.

Is the reef flux worth a try in fishless bin? I did notice I killed some of it when I doser alkalinity, the stuff growing on icecap gyre turned white when I poured two part there (pump is only about an inch from surface, pretty easy to hit that pouring it in)

not running any filters, other than live rock that came from tank. It’s just, heater,icecap gyre and lights. No Carbon or gfo.

Any ideas? Oh I did add two frags while corals were separated about two weeks ago. Same place I buy from normally, did standard Bayer dip.

thanks

 

[piranhaman00]

Didn’t read really haha but reed flux works no problems, I would do closer to 70 days, not 45 for fallow

 

[Wildreefs]

Lol I’ll sum it up shortly. Never had byropsis in main tank. Moved coral and rock to big bin, same water. Bytropsis set in within 2 weeks in fishless bin.

 

[DSEKULA]

Aminos will still feed algae so you are adding some food. Reef flux will work but if you only do the rock bin it could be laying dormant in the dt just to pop out later. Id either do the tub now and then do a second treatment in the dt after copper or just wait untill everything is done with copper. Fallow is 76 days not 45 to be sure ich is gone. Also make sure you get some media to pull the copper out of the sand and rocks (and keep up on it) left in the dt so you dont finish fallow just to add everything back and have ot die, that would be sad. Also.. keep an eye on that copper ime if theres rocks and sand in the tank they will slowly leach it in reducing the amount in the water making it harder to keep the correct level if that level drops too low the treatment period will need to be restarted which is really a pain.