Fluconazole VS. Bryopsis Discussion Thread

[Myka]

Haha nice

[GoFish]

O...M...G...
That's hilarious! And here I'm wondering why you didn't reply to my text earlier? Did it not work? Haha busy cracking beers and making memes I see.

You're welcome Ian

[dcw1sfu]

Update.

Day 14 since adding the Fluc. All bryopsis gone. There are a few tiny wirey strands that might be bryopsis but could be hair algae. In any case it was successful.

In total I added 7 capsules for 6o gallons. I added the 7th cap on day 4.

I left the skimmer running with the cup on but turned it down to a dry skim. I'm sure leaving the skimmer on slows the process however I wasn't willing to risk leaving my skimmer off while carbon dosing.

I'm going to wait another couple days before doing a water change as everything looks good.

[iamfrontosa]

damn. it really is a magic pill.

[dcw1sfu]

Originally Posted by iamfrontosa

damn. it really is a magic pill.

Yeh I've been dealing with manual removal and peroxide dosing for over a year. I went on vacation for a couple weeks and the tank was covered. In the 14 days since dosong it completely stopped the growth and eradicated it. If I left the tank from. Another 14 days without manual removal I would have had the stuff completely converting all my SPS.

best thing is all corals, fush and inverts look as healthy as ever.

[Frogger]

This is definitely the wonder drug, who would ever have thought it was this easy. I have been keeping a reef tank for over 25 years and who knows what I would have done had I known it was this easy.

It has been 6 weeks since I treated my 40 gallon tank with 3 tablets of Fluconazole and I would never have expected it to be this good. All Bryopsis is gone, I had a heavy infestation 8 years worth, I did nothing else, only removing the dead Bryopsis when it floated to the top.

I have absolutely no Bryopsis left, I lost no inhabitants of my tank, not a snail, not a fish not a coral. The colors of the corals, Bonsai SPS, neon green frogspawn has never changed. there actually growing way faster because there is bare rock to be covered.

The coralline algae was not affected. I had a bit if a Cyano problem immediately after, due to nutrient build up with the dead Bryopsis and skimmer being off line for a half a dozen days. I have completed 2 very large water changes to remove most of the Fluconazole from the water.

[GoFish]

Glad to hear Frogger, been wondering how your battle went. How long did it end up taking? And did you take a before/after photos?

[kengeroo]

did not notice until recently..
but previous to the dosage.. I had a plethora of brittle stars in my live rock..

today I noticed I have zero... cannot be definite that it is a result of the meds...

[One_Divided]

I also beat a complete Bryopsis outbreak in my frag tank a few months back with good old fashion clean up crew..

I added 30 blue legged hermits and 7 emerald crabs (30 gallon tank). You have to pull out all the long stuff (they don't seem to touch the long patches). It will be gone in a couple weeks with enough of them.. I suppose if the treatment didn't effect anything else in the tank, that's pretty easy though!

[Etaloche]

Anyone have a clam in their tank that's tried this?