Fluconazole VS. Bryopsis Discussion Thread

[GoFish]

Originally Posted by kengeroo

for a 110 gal,, would you not need 11 capsules ????
I have a 65 gallon and I used 7 in total...

You may be getting people mixed up ... tang daddy has a 110 gallon and Frogger has a 40ish gallon (might need to add 1 more capsule). How many capsules did you use initially Frogger?

[Frogger]

I added 3 capsules, dissolved the contents as recommended before adding to tank on January 25. The algae is bryopsis. Tank is 38 gallons less the rock and gravel

[Myka]

Originally Posted by kengeroo

everything looks good,,,
even still seeing copepods shells molting,,
so they are also still alive and well and growing..

Considering it's an antifungal, I was more concerned about "fungals" than pods. You know, like Fungia Plates and Toadstool Leathers...











...Yeah, I'm kidding. But anywho, if it's powerful enough to kill algae so quickly and so dramatically, it just makes me wonder what else it is affecting. It must be affecting other things. Do those things "matter"? I hope not. I like wonder drugs.

[tang daddy]

Originally Posted by kengeroo

for a 110 gal,, would you not need 11 capsules ????
I have a 65 gallon and I used 7 in total...

Hey Kenny display is 90 and sump 35 but only over half full, I estimated 110 of water but it could be less as the rock and corals are stuffed in pretty good. I dosed 1 blister pack in total (10 pills over 3 days) which is suppose to be good for about 100g of water so maybe alittle under....or over.

Originally Posted by GoFish

So you're at a full dose @ 20mg/gallon instead of 5mg/gallon now? Actually read that someone was able to get rid of their bryopsis at the lower 5mg dose, didn't provide much detail or photos though. Im definitely not a scientist or doctor but suppose in theory it's possible to create a strain resistant to this medication if using too little. Kind of how vaccines are "supposed" to work.
As far as manual removal first, it isn't necessary but probably won't hurt.


No skimmer here, I don't even have one in the tank.
Glad you're Cyano is gone, now onto the Bryopsis. If the remainder isn't looking healthy than it probably is bryopsis and just give it a bit longer. If it's not going away then it could be another type of algae mixed in?
I've yet to see anyone mention that it didn't take care of all the Bryopsis, but have seen someone say they were Bryopsis free after 18days

Bryant I basically couldn't add numbers and aired to the side of caution when originally dosing the fluco, it was roughly 5mg/gal initially and then added the remainder of 15mg/gal 3 days later. I will say that yesterday about 32 hrs after initial dose of the 15mg the bryopsis is completely gone, super amazed kinda like I was amazed when bubble algae started to melt. Now if we can find a wonder drug for aptaisia we are almost all covered as far as pests are concerned!

[mseepman]

So how are people getting this drug?

[GoFish]

Originally Posted by mseepman

So how are people getting this drug?

Sent you a PM with a couple online sources. One of them has already been mentioned in this thread, the price just went up at least 20% the other day

[dcw1sfu]

I will recieve mine in the mail today. Just performed a 20% water change and manually removed as much bryopsis as possible to help the process. I'll dose 20mg/gal based on my 60gallon net water. Also I'm going to leave skimmer running with cup off as I carbon dose. I will of course take carbon and gfo offline while the Fluk is doing its thing. I'll keep you all posted.

D.

[dcw1sfu]

Update...

24 hrs after dosing, Bryopsis is looking weaker and losing its color. Bryopsis that is in the more shaded areas of the tank doesn't look to be too effected yet. So far so good. No negative effects to the tank.

[Ram3500]

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Thanks Bryant !

[WarDog]

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