fluconazole x bryopsis

[Jbod77]

Day six. I definitely see some thinning out

 

[Jbod77]

I agree there is lots changing in your pics. Hard to tell from your photos but you may have several different algaes. I wouldn't lose hope, nearly all of the stuff on my rocks is clear or completely gone now, but there is some inside the cages of my Panta Rhei pumps the snails can't get too, and it is just now starting to become noticeably unhappy.

(I also didn't change anything with my lights)

There is DEFINATELY other algae present I. The tank. Some Dino's. Some cyano. Like a salad bar. I plan on starting vibrant today in addition to flucon

 

[Jbod77]

Day 7. Slight improvement every day. I have to get some pics with more whites but I get home from work at the peak of the blues

 

[thatbamaguy]

I may have missed this in the thread but where are you guys in the states getting this med? I'd love to try it but it's prescription only here. I'm in Concord, NC.

 

[NCreefguy]

I may have missed this in the thread but where are you guys in the states getting this med? I'd love to try it but it's prescription only here. I'm in Concord, NC.

https://www.payless-petproducts.com/fluconazole200.html

 

[Sabellafella]

Day six. I definitely see some thinning out

Has it started to turn white?

 

[Jbod77]

Has it started to turn white?

The ends are yes. And it is thinning out considerably

 

[Sabellafella]

Gone completely. Treatment was started wed night, over 100s of sps colonys. Every type of corals, gonipora, mushrooms, zoas, leptos, shrooms, favia/favites, all types of acans, rock nems, blastos, euphyllia ,acros and montis, nudibranchs, fish, hermitz snails, sea hare, madractis, aiptasia , cheato, calerpa, red algaes plus more. Were all fine, nothing was affected other then bryopsis. All equipment running at 20mg p gallon. Took my buddy 5 days to kill all traces of bryopsis.

 

[NCreefguy]

Gone completely. Treatment was started wed night, over 100s of sps colonys. Every type of corals, gonipora, mushrooms, zoas, leptos, shrooms, favia/favites, all types of acans, rock nems, blastos, euphyllia ,acros and montis, nudibranchs, fish, hermitz snails, sea hare, madractis, aiptasia , cheato, calerpa, red algaes plus more. Were all fine, nothing was affected other then bryopsis. All equipment running at 20mg p gallon. Took my buddy 5 days to kill all traces of bryopsis.

Excellent news!!

 

[kschweer]

Gone completely. Treatment was started wed night, over 100s of sps colonys. Every type of corals, gonipora, mushrooms, zoas, leptos, shrooms, favia/favites, all types of acans, rock nems, blastos, euphyllia ,acros and montis, nudibranchs, fish, hermitz snails, sea hare, madractis, aiptasia , cheato, calerpa, red algaes plus more. Were all fine, nothing was affected other then bryopsis. All equipment running at 20mg p gallon. Took my buddy 5 days to kill all traces of bryopsis.

Wow!!! Excellent news

 

[Jbod77]

Ok so I guess this is day 8 cause I didn't post yesterday. I didn't take pictures either. Tomorrow I'm gonna shut the blues off when I take pics. These are all iPhone pics. Didn't break out the dslr yet. We are getting somewhere today for sure. As others have pointed out, there are numerous other nuisance algae in the tank. I started vibrant today as well. I dosed 10ml because I have about 100 gals total volume. I have a stenner pump that does daily water changes and parameters are all normal so I can't really say where it's coming from but it's there. Anyway, I can actually see some sps bones that weee covered in bryopsis. I say bones cause I'm sure there're dead now. We will see what happens from here. The only thing I've done beside dose flucon is turn my skimmer off. It's working. Slower for me but it's definitely doing something this stuff doesn't like. [emoji1317] amen

 

[Sabellafella]

Ok so I guess this is day 8 cause I didn't post yesterday. I didn't take pictures either. Tomorrow I'm gonna shut the blues off when I take pics. These are all iPhone pics. Didn't break out the dslr yet. We are getting somewhere today for sure. As others have pointed out, there are numerous other nuisance algae in the tank. I started vibrant today as well. I dosed 10ml because I have about 100 gals total volume. I have a stenner pump that does daily water changes and parameters are all normal so I can't really say where it's coming from but it's there. Anyway, I can actually see some sps bones that weee covered in bryopsis. I say bones cause I'm sure there're dead now. We will see what happens from here. The only thing I've done beside dose flucon is turn my skimmer off. It's working. Slower for me but it's definitely doing something this stuff doesn't like. [emoji1317] amen

The frag rack on the right, looks to almost soon be clean! I dont think the water changes would affect the fluconazole. Unless it took 75-100% of your water volume out during a wc. Id give it about 2 or 3 more days, maybe you might need another dose (most likely not)

 

[Rick.45cal]

You'll get there @Jbod77 It's working!!!

 

[Jbod77]

The frag rack on the right, looks to almost soon be clean! I dont think the water changes would affect the fluconazole. Unless it took 75-100% of your water volume out during a wc. Id give it about 2 or 3 more days, maybe you might need another dose (most likely not)

Miscommunication. My skimmer is off and my auto water change pump is off for the treatment.

Also, in full disclosure, last night I dumped the remaining 5 capsules from my initial treatment into the system. I couldn't find any info on overdosing. I have not much in the way of livestock to loose. I didn't see a reason to keep just 5 capsules as it's only a partial treatment for my system so I figured why not. I can tell it's definitely doing something. Maybe not as fast as other but it is working!

 

[Rick.45cal]

Miscommunication. My skimmer is off and my auto water change pump is off for the treatment.

Also, in full disclosure, last night I dumped the remaining 5 capsules from my initial treatment into the system. I couldn't find any info on overdosing. I have not much in the way of livestock to loose. I didn't see a reason to keep just 5 capsules as it's only a partial treatment for my system so I figured why not. I can tell it's definitely doing something. Maybe not as fast as other but it is working!

Hopefully it will get it knocked out, I don't think it will hurt anything to have added more.

 

[dnov99]

Thanks to @Sabellafella for posting my pics.

Here's my experience. 550 gallon 14 year old well established system. Bryopsis was in in all 3 tanks, fuge, plumbing etc. I manually removed as much as possible prior to treating in order to minimize die off. UV off, skimmer off for first 3 days, no carbon/GFO, fuge kept on line, lighting schedule left unchanged. I dosed 50 200mg capsules to treat 550 gallon system. Here are before and after pics after one week. 100% gone and truly miraculous.

 

[Rick.45cal]

AMAZING! Right?

 

[Sabellafella]

Thanks to @Sabellafella for posting my pics.

Here's my experience. 550 gallon 14 year old well established system. Bryopsis was in in all 3 tanks, fuge, plumbing etc. I manually removed as much as possible prior to treating in order to minimize die off. UV off, skimmer off for first 3 days, no carbon/GFO, fuge kept on line, lighting schedule left unchanged. I dosed 50 200mg capsules to treat 550 gallon system. Here are before and after pics after one week. 100% gone and truly miraculous.

I still cant get over how good it works. Rockwork looks squeeky clean

 

[Rob Lion]

Hey, first up thank you to @Sabellafella , it's always hard to put your head above the parapet before others, but by (re)bringing this possible (now probable) cure to bryopsis, and with the help of @NCreefguy and others, you have helped save many members tanks and their money too!

My story is a simple on.... My 70 gallon tank is just 18 months old, I keep it very clean, spend hours on it and have been blessed with no issues, no algae, no losses etc... and have nurtured a lovely dark green fern type macro algae in my display tank, it looked so beautiful, with its long 3 inch ferns dancing about my branch rock. I looked after it, and was glad to have my only bit of algae surviving.

Then, one day, I thought oh, its getting a little bit big, i'll pull some of it out and trim it back a little...... a week later it had grown back, and I had new patches growing in about 4 different locations around my DT and one in the sump..... hmmmm, I thought, I know it can't be bryopsis, as I have such a clean perfect tank.... so I pulled a little fern off, and looked under a magnifying glass, and searched the web..... It didn't take long to find out... It was Bryopsis Pennata!!!!!!

So ok, I started to do what others before fluconazole was known, I pulled any rocks I could, and H2O2 dipped them, pulled and kept pulling any ferns I saw, raised Mg to over 1500, upped salinity to 1.028, increased flow and despite Vibrant costing $70 here in the UK I got some and started dosing...... 3 week later.... even more bryopsis than I started with!!!

So you have given me hope, rather than the entire live rock genocide I was considering - thank you!

Rob

 

[NCreefguy]

Hey, first up thank you to @Sabellafella , it's always hard to put your head above the parapet before others, but by (re)bringing this possible (now probable) cure to bryopsis, and with the help of @NCreefguy and others, you have helped save many members tanks and their money too!

My story is a simple on.... My 70 gallon tank is just 18 months old, I keep it very clean, spend hours on it and have been blessed with no issues, no algae, no losses etc... and have nurtured a lovely dark green fern type macro algae in my display tank, it looked so beautiful, with its long 3 inch ferns dancing about my branch rock. I looked after it, and was glad to have my only bit of algae surviving.

Then, one day, I thought oh, its getting a little bit big, i'll pull some of it out and trim it back a little...... a week later it had grown back, and I had new patches growing in about 4 different locations around my DT and one in the sump..... hmmmm, I thought, I know it can't be bryopsis, as I have such a clean perfect tank.... so I pulled a little fern off, and looked under a magnifying glass, and searched the web..... It didn't take long to find out... It was Bryopsis Pennata!!!!!!

So ok, I started to do what others before fluconazole was known, I pulled any rocks I could, and H2O2 dipped them, pulled and kept pulling any ferns I saw, raised Mg to over 1500, upped salinity to 1.028, increased flow and despite Vibrant costing $70 here in the UK I got some and started dosing...... 3 week later.... even more bryopsis than I started with!!!

So you have given me hope, rather than the entire live rock genocide I was considering - thank you!

Rob

Hang in there Rob....Fluconazole will knock it out for you.