Bryopsis overtaking tank

I'd take out your inverts if you go the tech m route. I lost a number of them in the first 4 days of dosing.
 
DivingTheWorld said:
Scuzy, I should have listened to you on avoiding the Dino-x... But I had already bought it and didn't want to just throw $50 away. Two weeks in I lost both cleaner shrimp, one Bangaii went carpet surfing. Two of my SPS died completely and most of my others have either locally or largely STN'd. DINO-X IS BAD NEWS!

So now I'm planning to go the next route you tried, Kent Tech M. This Bryopsis is taking over my tank and I'm about where you are, fix it or just nuke and start over.

My plan is to raise 100ppm per day until I hit 1900ppm -2000ppm, maintain until the Bryopsis is totally dead, then let it drop naturally. I've read a few dozen threads on treatment and it sounds like one issue which pops up (if it works) is a big nutrient swing when the Bryopsis starts dying off. So I plan to run Carbon/GFO during treatment, swapping it out once per week. I've also read that water changes might also be good during treatment, dosing up your change water with Tech M to equal tank levels. My theory is that the coral issues people have seen during treatment (bleaching) are as a result of the Bryopsis die off and nutrient swing rather than the Kent Tech M itself.

How long did you maintain at 1800ppm for?
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I used Algae x now known as Dino x to get rid of dinoflagellate and it completely wiped out all my shrimps it however did not kill any SPS ,LPS or my anenomie.

I've seen mixed reviews on it and does differ between systems the main thing is though it slaughtered my dinoflagellate algae :)
 
Marty.H said:
I've read the tech M has altered and is no longer killing bryopsis as it did how correct is that ?
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From what I understand they have just changed their branding.

I can't really say because I purchased 500ml from my lfs. They poured it from their bulk size jug and I don't know how old it is.
 
I went to my LFS in the UK so may be different in your location but they said no point it's changed as I had some bryopsis but I decided ill leave it be as was only on back pane and it has slowly been going brown and vanishing so been a result really
 
Hey, I started this hobby 9 months ago with 30 gallon and a lot of hang on the back type equipment, Refugium being one of them.

So one of my first coral frags had a lot of bryposis and being the idiot I am, I picked it off and threw it in the refugium to grow like it was caulerpa. Week goes by and this bryposis turns into a grapefruit ball of twirling algae in my refuge and I decide to finally google what it is.. LOL I started freaking out thinking I just screwed up this 500 $ system. Well I throw out the grapefruit sized bryopsis ball and look at my display tank. About 5 stems id say popping up in random places at this point, and I just brace myself for the algae nightmare that is so common among us new marine hobbyist..
Nothing.. Its disappeared.. never came back, And NO algae is present nor (even if I introduce it.. no matter what type) does it ever survive longer then a night.

Now these results have been strange and I don't have much to attribute it too besides this thing called Aquabella bio enzymes . Which I started a few days after throwing out the grapefruit sized Bryopsis ball.
So if nothing is working and you have nothing else to lose. Maybe this Aquabella Bio enzymes will work (Even though its not used for algae control in any way shape or form)
 
My tank volume is 210 + 55 gallon sump so it might take longer for me. Sfo Garr tech m isn't doing anything. I need to think of another way to get rid of this crap.
 
DivingTheWorld said:
Were you running GFO and Carbon at the time? I have an extremely unscientific theory that some of the coral issues people are seeing are due to the spike in nutrients as the Bryopsis dies. Just curious.
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nope no gfo no carbon i didnt want to run anything that would hinder the kent m , i just did a monster water change and dropped in carbon and purigen,
 
scuzy said:
Tech-M still not working for me. This is a losing battle.
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Did it work at all, or just partially? My bryopsis was about 90% gone by day 4, but since then not much has changed. It seems most of the roots are still there. I'm afraid if I stop treatment they'll just regrow.

So far the only issues I've had from running it this high is my snails are retarded. They fall off the rocks all the time and I have to flip 3-4 a day. My fish are fine and my sps actually seem to have better colors?
 
Telling you guys to look into peroxide. Cheaper, just as safe, and works faster. Make a paste with some baking soda for spot treatments or pull rocks out for dipping. Gone in a couple days...
 
I had horrible bryopsis in my 120. Added a fuge and dosed with Tech-M and it went away and stayed away for 3 years (sold the tank when we moved).
 
How do you dose peroxide? I am doin bff spot treatment but there are lots of spots all over my rocks
 
Search for the peroxide thread but I believe it was something like 1ml for every 10 gallons. Some have done more then that but that seemed like a good starting point.

In my tank I could not take out all of the rock so I made a paste I used during water changes to ensure that the peroxide hit my trouble areas. Just mixed some baking soda and peroxide together to form a goopy mixture then took a syringe and squirted it where needed. Cleaned up the area with a turkey baster after a couple minutes and finished my change.
 
So you dose 1 ml per 10 gallon a day? I thought they were referring to spot treatment and not dosing
 
scuzy said:
So you dose 1 ml per 10 gallon a day? I thought they were referring to spot treatment and not dosing
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You are getting confused, one person is talking about dosing and the other is telling you how to spot treat the algae. Hope that helps!
 
With peroxide there are three options and you can do one, two, or all.

Dosing of peroxide - I believe it is 1 ml per 10 gal but double check the main peroxide thread.

spot treatment in the water with peroxide paste

removal of rock and dipping in a 50/50 SW/peroxide mix for a few minutes


For my bryopsis I started with Tech M with little results. I move to dipping the rock and it eradicated around 80% of it but it woudl slowly come back as the living algae in my base rock i could not remove to dip woudl reseed it. I then turned to one final dip to clear what I could off the top rocks, started dosing daily peroxide, and would do weekly paste treatments on my trouble areas on the base rock.

Same course of action for my recent culpera that I got from a frag swap...
 
treedog5 said:
You are getting confused, one person is talking about dosing and the other is telling you how to spot treat the algae. Hope that helps!
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I think I am the same person. And if the other voices in my head start posting we ALL have problems. LOL
 
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