Tech M

.AcroKiller. · May 27, 2016

Randy would upping magnesium with tech m impact the rest of my elements? I been keeping my reef stable with NSW parameters and some how introduce a frag that had bryopsis and now I have a few rocks with a few spots. So if I'm wanting to dose tech m to get rid of it. Do you have any other remedies for bryopsis?

CodyRVA · May 27, 2016

This might not work for your particular situation, but I had a few frags come in with bryopsis that i staged on my frag rack. Within a month or so the rack itself and several other frags had a lot of bryopsis on them. I ended up dosing the entire rack in vinegar and using a syringe to target dose peroxide on the bryopsis on the frags.

.AcroKiller. · May 27, 2016

Did target dosing peroxide worked

CodyRVA · May 27, 2016

iiluisii said:
Did target dosing peroxide worked

Yep, you just have to be very very careful. I got some on some zoas and it fizzed up, the zoas closed, but opened in a few days. I think the peroxide I used I got from walmart, i think its 10%? I also spot treated some around the base of a few acros with success, the stony corals didn't seem to care as much as the zoas, but again use extreme caution! I did rinse everything in tank water before returning it to the display.

Salty1962 · May 27, 2016

As mentioned, if you do use peroxide treatment, rinse thoroughly or else you'll lose you crustys.

.AcroKiller. · May 27, 2016

CodyRVA said:
Yep, you just have to be very very careful. I got some on some zoas and it fizzed up, the zoas closed, but opened in a few days. I think the peroxide I used I got from walmart, i think its 10%? I also spot treated some around the base of a few acros with success, the stony corals didn't seem to care as much as the zoas, but again use extreme caution! I did rinse everything in tank water before returning it to the display.

Oh so you didn't do it inside the display?

CodyRVA · May 27, 2016

iiluisii said:
Oh so you didn't do it inside the display?

Not at all, I pulled everything out, spot treated it, rinsed, then replaced.

zoomonster · May 27, 2016

Tech M worked very well for bryopsis when I had an outbreak and really the only downside is it made some z&p's and softies unhappy for a while.

However... as I understand it there's more to it than magnesium and there was something else about that formula that made it work so well. I did mine over a year ago but everything I have seen now says they changed the formula and it no longer works for bryopsis. I had a blowup in my tank and spot treatment was not an option.

Randy Holmes-Farley · May 27, 2016

iiluisii said:
Randy would upping magnesium with tech m impact the rest of my elements? I been keeping my reef stable with NSW parameters and some how introduce a frag that had bryopsis and now I have a few rocks with a few spots. So if I'm wanting to dose tech m to get rid of it. Do you have any other remedies for bryopsis?

Tech M will boost magnesium and chloride (both impacting salinity), but probably nothing else noticeable without a Triton test.

Some fish eat it, such as some foxfaces and rabbitfish.

.AcroKiller. · May 27, 2016

Thanks Randy

jason2459 · May 28, 2016

FWIW, TechM did nothing for the bryopsis I had. This was a while ago and don't remember off hand with out looking it up but I know I went over 1800 for a bit. Snails went lethargic over I think 1500 and comatose over 1800. Eventually they woke back and and started moving again.

That was the only reaction I got with it. I got a magnificent foxface and it did eat some of it. It ate everything. Beautiful fish.

So, basically good luck and it has worked for some people. YMMV