How to eradicate Byropsis totally? (Have access now)

[ps2cho]

so this weekend I completely broke down my 40G tank, and removed 95% of the byropsis that Mg and Vibrant didn't even touch. I must have a really brutal strand..

So right now I am left with just a few strands in the tank and I did a 100% water change.

I have FULL access to all corals and one large rock, whereas before the rock structure was prohibitive and I couldn't do much -- it got out of control and I had baseball sized clumps all over.

What is my best tactic now to eradicate every leftover strand?

Some are on bottoms of corals, some stuck in rock crevices...

Thanks

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

so this weekend I completely broke down my 40G tank, and removed 95% of the byropsis that Mg and Vibrant didn't even touch. I must have a really brutal strand..

So right now I am left with just a few strands in the tank and I did a 100% water change.

I have FULL access to all corals and one large rock, whereas before the rock structure was prohibitive and I couldn't do much -- it got out of control and I had baseball sized clumps all over.

What is my best tactic now to eradicate every leftover strand?

Some are on bottoms of corals, some stuck in rock crevices...

Thanks

not sure of your strain, but I do notice I cant grow my bryo in my sump. Thats where it goes when I use my toothbrush on it. Odd.
Im going to put a rock with the bryo into my(empty) coral QT today and do a lights out and see what happens.

 

[brandon429]

if you don't rasp them off, the chance of growback is 100% and pretty fast too.


if you do rasp them off, by using a metal tool to dig out from under the strands at the anchors, the growback is still 100% due to the delay of the rasping action which is the best preventative, but it will be far less pronounced. I know of nothing that can cure your issue one off, its cycling although the number of cycles is directly correlated to the rasping you do or do not do.

Delaying allows the plants to go really deep, and the test rock would have told how long/how hard to score the substrate to get the death time phase/growback info. many clean up crews can work in lucky arrangements, but being a reef dentist works always and is good elbow grease req'd for having waited. the delay in action was the cause, not nutrients and not import because we will always be trading frags etc, its coming back soon.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

if you don't rasp them off, the chance of growback is 100% and pretty fast too.


if you do rasp them off, by using a metal tool to dig out from under the strands at the anchors, the growback is still 100% due to the delay of the rasping action which is the best preventative, but it will be far less pronounced. I know of nothing that can cure your issue one off, its cycling although the number of cycles is directly correlated to the rasping you do or do not do.

Delaying allows the plants to go really deep, and the test rock would have told how long/how hard to score the substrate to get the death time phase/growback info.

Im having some very weird success in my qt w the bryo. I have a pretty decent cuc of snails and on crab. On rock(old stag horn) was so infested it looked like a tree. I scrubbed etc(not rasp as part of the experiment). dropped it in the qt and the bryo on it has not yet come back at all. Ive had similar success with several frags and smaller rocks.
its quite weird.

 

[ps2cho]

It does not grow in my sump in any areas that do not get light.

So what I've read so far is that maybe my best plan is to entire rid of any substrate it has any signs of being on?

What about the underside of corals? Is there a way to kill the stuff but keep the coral alive?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

It does not grow in my sump in any areas that do not get light.

So what I've read so far is that maybe my best plan is to entire rid of any substrate it has any signs of being on?

What about the underside of corals? Is there a way to kill the stuff but keep the coral alive?

im using scrubbing and then a black out. corals should be ok for a few days without light. assuming good health
If this works, Ill use it in my smaller dt.

 

[Maritimer]

You could try what one LFS did when they had a tank overrun with the stuff . . .

Close the blinds on the windows in the room.

Turn off the lights in the tank.

Get a nautilus . . .

~Bruce (~_^) (Who knows, in all seriousness, that Bryopsis is hard work. The stuff can be brutal to deal with; I've been battling it since the Frag Farmers' Market last March, and I think I've just about maybe got it licked. ... Hey, willya look at the calendar - Frag Farmers' Market is coming up in a couple of months!)

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

~Bruce (~_^) (Who knows, in all seriousness, that Bryopsis is hard work. The stuff can be brutal to deal with; I've been battling it since the Frag Farmers' Market last March, and I think I've just about maybe got it licked. ... Hey, willya look at the calendar - Frag Farmers' Market is coming up in a couple of months!)

lol

Get a nautilus . . .

I sooo want one.

 

[Rick.45cal]

My bryopsis doesn't seem to care about 3 day blackouts, it doesn't care about low/no nutrients (corals can starve and bleach, it doesn't even notice), vibrant affected it for awhile, now it just slowly keeps advancing. I've tried scrubbing, rasping (whats possible with pukani and all the holes and crevices that bryopsis seems to favor.) wretched stuff. I sure wish there was something that ate it! I'm not sure what my next move is. Limiting my photo period? Buying a frag tank moving all my corals to it and turning the lights out on the display for a year... these are all options floating around in my head.



Edited to add: Kent marine tech M had no effect on it either

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

My bryopsis doesn't seem to care about 3 day blackouts, it doesn't care about low/no nutrients (corals can starve and bleach, it doesn't even notice), vibrant affected it for awhile, now it just slowly keeps advancing. I've tried scrubbing, rasping (whats possible with pukani and all the holes and crevices that bryopsis seems to favor.) wretched stuff. I sure wish there was something that ate it! I'm not sure what my next move is. Limiting my photo period? Buying a frag tank moving all my corals to it and turning the lights out on the display for a year... these are all options floating around in my head.



Edited to add: Kent marine tech M had no effect on it either

Have you tried the

Get a nautilus . . .

 

[twilliard]

My bryopsis doesn't seem to care about 3 day blackouts, it doesn't care about low/no nutrients (corals can starve and bleach, it doesn't even notice), vibrant affected it for awhile, now it just slowly keeps advancing. I've tried scrubbing, rasping (whats possible with pukani and all the holes and crevices that bryopsis seems to favor.) wretched stuff. I sure wish there was something that ate it! I'm not sure what my next move is. Limiting my photo period? Buying a frag tank moving all my corals to it and turning the lights out on the display for a year... these are all options floating around in my head.



Edited to add: Kent marine tech M had no effect on it either

I think people are thinking vibrant is a treatment, well it's not. I have been studying this in my lab since Dec. 19th

 

[Rick.45cal]

Have you tried the

I haven't tried that yet. It is becoming an attractive option. I fell in love with those when I saw two in a tank in Kansas City Missouri in the early 90's. Super cool animals.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I haven't tried that yet. It is becoming an attractive option. I fell in love with those when I saw two in a tank in Kansas City Missouri in the early 90's. Super cool animals.

lol. yea there also soo many strains. I have the standard snails in the qt now and they munched the bryo off the frags. weird. prob starving really.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I think people are thinking vibrant is a treatment, well it's not. I have been studying this in my lab since Dec. 19th

were still awaiting your report.

@Rick.45cal at a point Id also look at the actual algaecides and how those work.

 

[Rick.45cal]

I think people are thinking vibrant is a treatment, well it's not. I have been studying this in my lab since Dec. 19th

I'd be interested in knowing your thoughts about it. I've noticed some things that other's haven't mentioned in that thread. (I've been using it since October 24th in the 2x weekly range) so for an extended time!

 

[twilliard]

It will be a while yet but coming to some firm conclusions. I have to watch what I say

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'd be interested in knowing your thoughts about it. I've noticed some things that other's haven't mentioned in that thread. (I've been using it since October 24th in the 2x weekly range) so for an extended time!

wow. Id hit up mcarroll too, hes familiar with the algaefix.

 

[Rick.45cal]

wow. Id hit up mcarroll too, hes familiar with the algaefix.

Yeah I am completely unfamiliar with what you are talking about. I'll need to do research and digest some new material.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yeah I am completely unfamiliar with what you are talking about. I'll need to do research and digest some new material.

https://www.chewy.com/api-algaefix-...gclid=CLqTxvHYttECFdm3wAodAjIBwA&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Rick.45cal]

It will be a while yet but coming to some firm conclusions. I have to watch what I say

I'm not particularly interested in particulars or specifics, especially related to their intellectual property. I am merely interested in knowing if you have some improved understanding that may provide me with an improved strategy for using it to help combat an invasive algae. The particulars are of little to no consequence too me at this point, it is already in my system.