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Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:01 PM

Pretty sure I did it by trying to do kalk and then the reef flux

Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:04 PM

May be a picture of your file in my falco his stomach is huge rn and that coral got dipped last weekend in hydrogen peroxide and then revive

Reefering1 · Saturday at 6:05 PM

Minifoot77 said:
Alk 8.2 to 8.4 cal 450ish mag 1350 nitrates is over 75 (tanked my cheato back in May with a reef flux dose ) phosphate. 07 as of last weekend

Minifoot77 said:
Pretty sure I did it by trying to do kalk and then the reef flux

Reef flux is the one people use for briopsis or gha? Did it work? How long after did things start declining? What did you do with kalk?

fishguy242 · Saturday at 6:06 PM

Reef flux is an algicide no ?
lots of removal media needed, GAC, purigen,??
or major water change ,like 75% at one time to get back on track ?

Reefering1 · Saturday at 6:06 PM

Minifoot77 said:
May be a picture of your file in my falco his stomach is huge rn and that coral got dipped last weekend in hydrogen peroxide and then revive

The Falco ate a filefish?

Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:08 PM

Reefering1 said:
Reef flux is the one people use for briopsis or gha? Did it work? How long after did things start declining? What did you do with kalk?

My idea was to use supersaturated kalk instead of brs soda ash... alk was steady then hit 14 then down to 6 all in a weeks time... reef flux was about the same time as trying kalk and why I said I think it was me. Just to much at one time

Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:09 PM

Reefering1 said:
The Falco ate a filefish?

Lol idk i just haven't seen the file

Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:10 PM

fishguy242 said:
Reef flux is an algicide no ?
lots of removal media needed, GAC, purigen,??
or major water change ,like 75% at one time to get back on track ?

Gac 24/7 and i been doing wc on a regular basis again I had been on moonshiners and went just under 3 years with out a wc

Reefering1 · Saturday at 6:11 PM

What were you trying to "fix" with the flux?

Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:13 PM

Reefering1 said:
What were you trying to "fix" with the flux?

Briopsis bubble and hair algae

Reefering1 · Saturday at 6:15 PM

Did it work? These chemicals are known to wreck the biome and set things back

Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:16 PM

Reefering1 said:
Did it work? These chemicals are known to wreck the biome and set things back

I got no briopsis anymore that I can find

Minifoot77 · Saturday at 6:18 PM

Gonna run all the tests as soon as I'm out the shower I'll report back and see how it looks..

tharbin · Saturday at 7:27 PM

fishguy242 said:
Reef flux is an algicide no ?
lots of removal media needed, GAC, purigen,??
or major water change ,like 75% at one time to get back on track ?

Reef Flux is Fluconazole, a fungicide, but also works very well on Bryopsis and a little on GHA and on bubble algae--but only with massive overdoses. It doesn't seem to hurt the tank much. I used Flux RX, similar product but different manufacturer once on a 15 gallon tank. Nuked the Bryopsis and hurt but didn't kill the others. Only negatives I saw were decreased PE on LPS. You need to clear it out with WCs and/or GAC after the treatment.

But... Bryopsis started to return 2 months after treatment. A second round killed it entirely. Good for Bryopsis but I don't think it it the best bet against GHA or Bubble Algae.