Killing Byropsis by raising Magnesium

[mr_bigl]

Thankyou all for the help! Thought id give yall an update. I increased the size of my CUC, and some one developed a taste for it. Slowly but surely it is disappearing! It might be something else, but the devil algae is definatly going away!

What did you buy for your CUC?

Sent from Da Bolt!

 

[Sdoutreefer]

What did you buy for your CUC?

Sent from Da Bolt!

I added 10 scarlet hermits and a halloween hermit and a big electric blue legged hermit. Finally my tank is looking better! But it always seems like theres a battle in this hobby. Ive been out of town the past couple weeks and now I have a bunch of aptasia popping up everywhere. I had 3, that i knew of, before i left town and tried to off them with aptasia-x but that didnt work..

 

[Reefing Madness]

Now ya need Peppermint Shrimp =)

 

[Sdoutreefer]

Haha maybe. Ive had bad luck with them in the past..

 

[rarecoral]

Great Topic!

 

[Sdoutreefer]

I noticed a stomatella out the other night, are these guys known to eat byropsis by chance?

 

[lakereef]

HI
The growth of Briopsis showed you a problem in the nitrogencycle, you have areas where is a shortcut in the cycle and there will be produced No2. This is what the Briopsis want. You need to stabilize the nitrogencycle on that way that you add Nitrate. The problem you have is that the maesurement of N03 in seawater is extremly difficult and will be affected by the No2 in the water to showed wrong test levels. If you raise up the Nitrate level ( only over Sodiumnitrate ) you will see that the briopsis will gone and your system stablize much better. At the same time you need
to reduce your TraceElements in the water , best way here is to use a handfull Zeolith.
Also stop or reduce adding Carbon Sources and or bacteria products till the system is stabilized.

The problem of not balanced CarbonSources is that they can limited the work of the nitrobacter group which will brings then this results.

Rgds Claude

* sorry for my bad english i write from Germany please feel free to ask if something is not clear enough

I am very interested to hear more about this explanation of the problem. So you're saying that if I add Nitrate to the tank this will also get rid of the bryopsis problem? If so, to what levels and how do you test accurately? Do you have links to more information on this?

I've been dosing very low amounts of Potassium Nitrate because my tests (Siefert) have shown the Nitrate levels to be <2ppm and I'm seeing some pastel colors in my corals. I had hoped dosing KNO3 would be an easy way to raise to a healthy level of 3ppm without effecting P04. I'm having a hard time seeing the levels change, but maybe I'm just being to conservative on my dosing. Or perhaps the tests are not sensitive enough.

 

[howaboutme]

I am very interested to hear more about this explanation of the problem. So you're saying that if I add Nitrate to the tank this will also get rid of the bryopsis problem? If so, to what levels and how do you test accurately? Do you have links to more information on this?

I've been dosing very low amounts of Potassium Nitrate because my tests (Siefert) have shown the Nitrate levels to be <2ppm and I'm seeing some pastel colors in my corals. I had hoped dosing KNO3 would be an easy way to raise to a healthy level of 3ppm without effecting P04. I'm having a hard time seeing the levels change, but maybe I'm just being to conservative on my dosing. Or perhaps the tests are not sensitive enough.

He might be referring to the redfield ratio.

I too am dosing KNO3 to raise my NO3 from zero to (targeting around ) 2ppm, maybe 3. I am doing it to reduce PO4.

 

[ifarmer]

i do not think raising mag would get rid of Bryopsis.
My friend's tank is having the same issue and he has tried out everything inlcluding raising Mag and nothing works for him.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Gotta use Kent Tech M. Its got somehting in it the other brands do not.