Chaeto and fluconazole
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The medical fluconazole for pets did not.
Reeflux hd. (Also a fluconazole ) did.
Reeflux hd. (Also a fluconazole ) did.
CMO
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I used Fishflucon by Thomas Labs which knocked back my chaeto considerably. It did not totally die though and has since rebounded well once the med was removed.
And I am 99.9% confident the die back was due to the med as I run Triton and have always had a very healthy and growing chaeto dominant fuge. My only trouble with chaeto was nearly immediately following adding floconazole to my system which then quickly resolved once removing it.
And I am 99.9% confident the die back was due to the med as I run Triton and have always had a very healthy and growing chaeto dominant fuge. My only trouble with chaeto was nearly immediately following adding floconazole to my system which then quickly resolved once removing it.
Fluconazole from two different sources killed off about 70% of my chaeto, which released a bunch of nutrients...big cyano mats. For my last treatment, I put all my chaeto into a small tank with a cheap grow light and HOB filter for water movement. It worked out well. No more bryopsis nor cyano!
Some has reported that only algae exposed to light (talking about briopsys) die. This could be valid for cheto too; so leaving it w/o light could be an option. It also advised to treat the whole system, algae refugium included, because it could reseed the DT with briopsys. Anyway if we don't illuminate algae, they don't die. So it's a hard choice.
Maybe waiting for the system to mature could be the best and natural option, but I think it is necessary to have all the fundamental elements needed by all the organisms. In my DT, the never cleaned parts of pipes, glasses and pumps got naturally cleaned from briopsys and got covered with coralline algae.
Luca
Maybe waiting for the system to mature could be the best and natural option, but I think it is necessary to have all the fundamental elements needed by all the organisms. In my DT, the never cleaned parts of pipes, glasses and pumps got naturally cleaned from briopsys and got covered with coralline algae.
Luca
