Fluconazole and anemone

[amnesiac]

I posted a while back on a thread about fluco (https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/f...n-hair-algae-issue.410948/page-2#post-4866995). The meds had completely eradicated my GHA problem and the only side effect remotely worth mentioning was that my anemone had split while the tank was being treated. OK so fast forward to late last week. I had dosed a maintenance amount of fluco into my tank because I wanted to keep from having GHA reappear in my tank (it hasn't). Five days after that dose (today) I shut off my pumps to feed and noticed that one of the anemones had moved a bit. Imagine my surprise when I tracked him down right next to another split!!! So in the span of about 2 months my 1 anemone has become 3.
OK, now one split seems like coincidence and I know even twice can probably still be in the realm of cosmic accident................but still I've got to ask: Has anyone else experienced this while dosing fluco???

 

[dylana407]

BTA split when they are stressed.

 

[amnesiac]

BTA split when they are stressed.

Yup, yup. I understand that anemones split as a sort of defense mechanism to increase the chance of at least one surviving. What I'm trying to gather is whether or not the dosing of fluco should be looked at as the cause. Figured if there were enough folks on here with a similar story I could move away from calling it a coincidence.

 

[davocean]

Change in params after using would be my guess

 

[Thirdeyesight17]

I'm on about day 7 of a fluconazole treatment and my rbta are unfazed. Using the dosage of 200mg per 10g. Treatment is working well I haven't had any adverse effects to anything in my tank thus far.

 

[davocean]

Yeah I did fluconazole treatment a couple months ago w/ no ill affects, and while my nem is a mag, and splitting is not super common in those, they still can, but I saw no changes at all in that or any corals, just all bry and HA gone

 

[amnesiac]

Thanks guys. Yeah I guess it's just coincidence that the split happened around the same time as the dose. So now the search begins on why my anem decided to cut itself in half. The first time I could see maybe some param fluctuations as the cause as there was quite a bit of GHA so NO3 and PO4 was all over the place when it started dying off. The second time around though it was only a 10th of a dose and there really wasn't any GHA so params have stayed rock solid. No lighting change or alk/cal dosing changes either. So of course Fluco was my first thought. Don't get me wrong guys, Fluco was a godsend when all else had failed and I don't want anybody to think I'm TRYING to find anything wrong with using it. I've ripped entire setups down because of GHA so it's not lost on me what I was spared by using it

 

[Muttley000]

Change in params after using would be my guess

This is what I thought also. I had to do 2 rounds of flucon to get my system cleaned. None of my nems split in the process, but when I got more coral's and didn't test frequently enough to see my dosing needed increased my population of bubble tips both red and green doubled from 10 to 20 before I got it corrected!

 

[amnesiac]

This is what I thought also. I had to do 2 rounds of flucon to get my system cleaned. None of my nems split in the process, but when I got more coral's and didn't test frequently enough to see my dosing needed increased my population of bubble tips both red and green doubled from 10 to 20 before I got it corrected!

Wow, you know I've had quite a few anems and have never had one split until this latest one. I had no idea splitting was as common as it is.

 

[davocean]

Common mainly in BTA's, and most common reason would be stress induced, sudden change in params often results in BTA split.
Often a new to tank BTA will split.

 

[Marc Daniels]

I'm on about day 7 of a fluconazole treatment and my rbta are unfazed. Using the dosage of 200mg per 10g. Treatment is working well I haven't had any adverse effects to anything in my tank thus far.

You dosed at 200mg per 10g? That isn't a typo?

 

[Thirdeyesight17]

You dosed at 200mg per 10g? That isn't a typo?

Nope that's what I ran. 32g 3- 200mg pills spread out the day. Never had any issue with my nems both in which are still doing great and just split. Still no bryopsis, however I did notice my pod population diminish.

 

[davocean]

Nope that's what I ran. 32g 3- 200mg pills spread out the day. Never had any issue with my nems both in which are still doing great and just split. Still no bryopsis, however I did notice my pod population diminish.

Same here, flucanzole wipes out all macro, I just ordered pods from algae barn and chaeto in fuge to reboost