Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole

[shimmer]

Anyone have experience with fluconazole killing snails?

During treatment all of my trochus snails died.

 

[Mikeltee]

After treatment, is it best to remove the meds with carbon? I intend to do the recommended 20% WC at 3 weeks and another 20% the following week. I only had a couple of small patches on a rock and a few strands in the sand. It was all gone at day 3 using 20mg/10gal (4 capsules/40gal).

 

[WetPringleChip]

I wonder if this med targets through light somehow. All my bryopsis under light is gone… but the patches in the shade are fully untouched. Still looks too healthy. Quite odd. Im thinking of increasing the dose and see if it needs to be stronger to take out this crap

 

[shimmer]

I wonder if this med targets through light somehow. All my bryopsis under light is gone… but the patches in the shade are fully untouched. Still looks too healthy. Quite odd. Im thinking of increasing the dose and see if it needs to be stronger to take out this crap

Yes, light definitely plays a role, it's talked about in the thread and it's also been my experience that the more light an area gets the quicker the bryopsis dies.

 

[WetPringleChip]

Yes, light definitely plays a role, it's talked about in the thread and it's also been my experience that the more light an area gets the quicker the bryopsis dies.

Definitely agree, i guess I didn’t thoroughly read. i saw that light helps kill it quicker but as time goes on its almost as if the meds stunted the growth and allow my cuc and urchins to slowly run over the dark areas as time goes by. Im at almost triple the dose at this point 3 weeks in and so far corals are happy and my rock has never looked so clean lol

 

[Adamsbrou]

Sharing my experience with fluconazole and bryopsis. We've had a few fatalities and I couldn't say for sure that it is related to the fluconazole but prior to fluconazole, they had been fine for many months. I used human grade fluconazole that was purchased from the pharmacy.

Almost 15 days into fluconazole treatmentt-bryopsis is all gone. GHA, still here but some are easier to suction out then others. We lost a lineatus wrasse several days into treatment, it was out of no blue, previously eating well and fat.

Since then, we've also lost a big hammer and a frogspawn is looking very bad. However, lots of other hammers and torches are unaffected. I would say all other corals are fine (zoas, SPS, acans, lobos, scolys) and inverts are fine, fish are fine.

Parameters are all within the normal range.

I'm in the middle of Flux tx for GHS and/or Biopsis. Did you scub your rocks througout the treatment or did you let die and come off the rocks naturally?

 

[Hawkeye1842]

Definitely agree, i guess I didn’t thoroughly read. i saw that light helps kill it quicker but as time goes on its almost as if the meds stunted the growth and allow my cuc and urchins to slowly run over the dark areas as time goes by. Im at almost triple the dose at this point 3 weeks in and so far corals are happy and my rock has never looked so clean lol

Do you have SPS in your tank I’ve heard that SPS struggles with fluconazole

 

[WetPringleChip]

Do you have SPS in your tank I’ve heard that SPS struggles with fluconazole

I have one monti and its thriving, and im not worried to try other stuff to be fair. Now this is just me speaking but if you have a ton of whatever algae youre trying to kill and are worried about your sps i feel like the phosphate and nitrite level increase is what would hurt them. So theoretically you could do a 50% water change unless u have a massive tank thats up to you. Half way through the treatment or multiple times during and just redose the reef flux that you water changed out. So u take out half the meds, add it back while also cutting the phos and nitrite in the water by half.

 

[ScottB]

I wonder if this med targets through light somehow. All my bryopsis under light is gone… but the patches in the shade are fully untouched. Still looks too healthy. Quite odd. Im thinking of increasing the dose and see if it needs to be stronger to take out this crap

Yes. A very clear connection to photosynthesis as part of the metabolic process needed to kill. Adjust accordingly. This was covered a few thousand posts ago.

 

[shimmer]

Has anyone had any luck actually eradicating bryopsis with fluconazale?

I did it for like a month, got rid of 95% of it, came back after water change and carbon.

Couple week break, and...

Just did it again for like 2 months, no visible bryopsis left, put carbon in a week ago, already coming back.

Phosphate and nitrate both basically 0.

 

[Dibi]

Jesus, instead of using 9mg/l, I used 18mg/l due to a mistake. It has past 15 days, algae gone, animals are fine. But do I have a problem? Help please. Thanks.

 

[CoralB]

Has anyone had any luck actually eradicating bryopsis with fluconazale?

I did it for like a month, got rid of 95% of it, came back after water change and carbon.

Couple week break, and...

Just did it again for like 2 months, no visible bryopsis left, put carbon in a week ago, already coming back.

Phosphate and nitrate both basically 0.

As long as your nitrate and phosphates are at 0 it will come back .

 

[Dibi]

Jesus, instead of using 9mg/l, I used 18mg/l due to a mistake. It has past 15 days, algae gone, animals are fine. But do I have a problem? Help please. Thanks.

All fine... It seems.

 

[FishPersonFL]

mine never came back, but I have 'actual' mex turbos that I'm convnced keep it clean, not clean it if that makes sense.

 

[peterat33rpm]

I put two capsules into my 32 gallon (probably about 27 gallons of water, about 15mg/gallon) about 7 days ago to try to beat hair algae, so far I think it’s been an improvement but I wouldnt say its been dramatic. I just now realized I forgot I had carbon in my filter, but the carbon is like 3.5 months old, just forgot to ever change it. Any ideas if this would have affected treatment? Should I add another capsule or just stay the course? Thanks for any help!

 

[niccumec]

I am beginning week 2 of Flux Rx treatment. If water parameters are still reasonable after the two weeks and a water change is not critical, is there any harm in just leaving the existing Flux Rx in the system for another 2-3 weeks? I performed a massive manual removal campaign prior to treatment, so die off likely will not spike my parameters too much.

Or is it best to resume skimming, perform water change, strip chemicals with activated carbon and retreat again down the road pending future flare ups?

My tank is only 6 months old and no corals yet. Just 6 small fish and CUC.