Fluconazole leaching from sand?

[CK00020]

I have a bryopsis problem and have been treating with reef flux or the flux rx, maybe 3 times in the last year. So I was just getting ready to dose again and was doing some tank maintenance, pulled some algae manually and vacuumed sand(I do this every month or so). It’s been a couple days and my bryopsis seems really receded, could I have stirred up some sand with flux in it, or released some that was leached into the sand. Any thoughts?
Alk7.5
Cal 400
Mag 1300
Nit 30
Phos .08

 

[blaxsun]

Maybe. Or maybe you've gotten enough of it such that it's having a hard time making any headway each time you perform maintenance.

 

[homer1475]

Same issue.....

Doing my third treatment in the last year of reef flux for bryopsis.

Anecdotally, when I went away on vacation(was going to dose when I got home) for a week, got back, and 90% of the bryposis is gone. No idea where it went, or how it died, but it just did.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Fluconaxole will not likely stick to calcium carbonate surfaces, but it will likely bind to organic matter (detritus, tissue surfaces, etc).