Fluconazole Experience Needed

[Brandon Rush]

I have a pretty bad outbreak of GHA and recently started a treatment of fluconazole. I have a 60 gallon total water setup and used 6 of those 200mg capsules. I'm on day 4 and it looks like the algae is starting to lose its hold and is coming off the rocks easier and what not. My question is do I just leave the stuff to do it's work or do I need to start pulling out the GHA. To me it seems it's not working very fast. Also is it safe to up the dosage? Here's a pic of what I'm dealing with.

 

[LAFANBLUE]

Give it time.. pull out what you can... Stuff works.. I had a bad break out a while back and this stuff took care of it.

 

[Brandon Rush]

Give it time.. pull out what you can... Stuff works.. I had a bad break out a while back and this stuff took care of it.

Think my dose is good, or should I up it? How long did it take for you?

 

[LAFANBLUE]

I remember following this thread. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bryopsis-cure-my-battle-with-bryopsis-using-fluconazole.285096/

Mine took at least a month or longer before it was completely gone... Pretty sure I only treated it twice. Hard to tell from your picture how bad you have it.

 

[LAFANBLUE]

Sorry can't remember at this point how much I dosed

 

[AngryMike2016]

It takes about two weeks to kill bryopsis, and about a month to kill GHA. Keep an eye on your alk/calc consumption as they will likely decrease quite a bit during treatment. If you have SPS, especially acropora, keep a VERY close eye on them.

 

[JonoB]

As others have said, you got to give it time. It works, but it isn't going to do it in 4 days. But I would pull out as much of GHA by hand as you can, it seemed to help speed mine up.