Will fluconazole kill my cheato

[fishybizzness]

Question, will fluconazole treatment kill my chaeto ? I am thinking about treating my tank for bryopsis and hair algea. I am running a bucket refugium with chaeto and was wondering if anyone has experience with reef flux affecting their chaeto. Thanks

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

Yeah it will wipe it out. Stick it in the bucket for a few weeks should be fine and put fuge light on a timer with an airstone.

 

[fishybizzness]

Thanks for the reply. Its already in a bucket so I will just shut off the flow valve feeding the bucket I guess. Can I just put a small powerhead in the bucket for flow or do you think an airstone is necessary? I'm just trying to limit the bubbles causing alot of salt creep.

 

[fishybizzness]

Bucket setup

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

When I used a powerhead the pump broke fairly quickly as the algae wrapped around the impeller. Skip the air stone and just use airline for large and infrequent bubbles.

 

[fishybizzness]

When I used a powerhead the pump broke fairly quickly as the algae wrapped around the impeller. Skip the air stone and just use airline for large and infrequent bubbles.

Good point

 

[CoralNerd]

I took my chaeto out put it in a bucket with no powerhead and no light. I put chaeto back in on the 5th day and my chaeto didn't die. Got rid my hair algae in the DT and chaeto survived. Pretty happy about that

 

[fishybizzness]

I took my chaeto out put it in a bucket with no powerhead and no light. I put chaeto back in on the 5th day and my chaeto didn't die. Got rid my hair algae in the DT and chaeto survived. Pretty happy about that

Thanks for the reply! There's nothing better than an actual result! Did you go the full 2 weeks before a water change?

 

[CoralNerd]

Yes

 

[CoralNerd]

Note I run chaeto in a reactor but I imagine if it wasn't in a reactor it would still survive when placed back in your refugium. Give it a go and report back here.

 

[fishybizzness]

Will do

 

[ReeferHooked]

Question, will fluconazole treatment kill my chaeto ? I am thinking about treating my tank for bryopsis and hair algea. I am running a bucket refugium with chaeto and was wondering if anyone has experience with reef flux affecting their chaeto. Thanks

Yes it did mine but it will kill the Hair algae in 3 weeks. Reef Flux

 

[fishybizzness]

Yes it did mine but it will kill the Hair algae in 3 weeks. Reef Flux

I'm taking the bucket refugium off line and I'll be running it with a small pump for the 2 or 3 weeks that I'm running the fluconazole. I'll just add some iron supplement and a few pellets of food every few days to keep it going until I hook it back up.

 

[fishybizzness]

I'm probably going to start the treatment in a week or so.

 

[Bubba002]

I took my chaeto out put it in a bucket with no powerhead and no light. I put chaeto back in on the 5th day and my chaeto didn't die. Got rid my hair algae in the DT and chaeto survived. Pretty happy about that

We’re you using the fluconazol for only 5 days?

 

[CoralNerd]

We’re you using the fluconazol for only 5 days?

The full 2 weeks.
I hear your sps didn't like it the last time you used it? Ty mentioned he had bad results.

 

[Bubba002]

Diatoms set in about w weeks later when I used it. I have 30 pills left. anybody want to try them?

 

[merkmerk73]

Yeah it will wipe it out. Stick it in the bucket for a few weeks should be fine and put fuge light on a timer with an airstone.

Btw I tried this and my Chaeto got wiped out

The bucket + fuge light + airstone thing was a total failure. I just ended up tossing the whole batch.