Fluconozole for bubble algae

nova65ss · Sep 21, 2019

So I've been using fluco for a few years now it works very well for me for bryopsis. It does come back and I end up just retreating as maintenance no big deal. I let it go a little too long this past time with my work schedule so I treated again about two months ago. I bought enough to do a second dose a week or so later just to ensure it all died. It was seeming to take a little longer than I had hoped so I purchased more and dosed two more times a week and a half or so apart. So I've basically done four doses in a 4-6 week span.

I have also been dealing with a really bad bubble algae problem and it has seemed to be completely dieing off as well. I can not even tell you how happy this makes me because it is the absolute worst right next to bryopsis. I do not know if it was the amount of fluconozole I've been dosing or a coincidence of other things but I am pretty sure it is the fluconozole. Wish I could be 100 percent sure it was but figured I would throw it out there if others were interested. In trying. I have a lot of coral and nothing has been affected fish are fine. I have not been running my skimmer for this period of time as well or carbon. Didn't do a water change until last weekend.

jt17 · Sep 22, 2019

Would you mind listing how much you used per gal and the exact days apart? This is the first I’ve heard of fluco taking out bubble algae.

nova65ss · Sep 22, 2019

I was dosing approximately 2000- 2500mg in my 120 with about 160 total gallons of water. Didn't track the exact amount of time between doses but a week to ten days each time.

The bubble algae shortly after the fourth dose turned white and completely started falling off the rocks. Almost 100 percent is gone.

Like I said I'm not 100 percent positive it was the fluco but like any other type of algae it kind of makes sense.