Bryopsis possible solution

This is my current tank, pick a spot lol, I managed to get some cyano with the last treatment I tried.

 
Art13 said:
I'm not sure you've ever dealt with bryopsis before. I have an oversized skimmer, high capacity gfo changed weekly, zero phos or nitrates, twice a week i pull out the bryopsis and blow off the rocks and replace the water with freshly made stuff. I can't even get my chaeto to grow anymore, the bubble algae that used to be in there is completely gone, there is no other algae in my tank. This stuff does not care if you run a ULNS system, i would take just about any other algae problem over this as most others are an easy fix with correcting nutrients.
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I had bryopsis for a year and tried everything. My nutrient levels (when tested) showed 0 or very close to it even before the bryopsis started. I tried raising mag with tech M and algae fix marine nothing helped at all. I would pull bryopsis out and it would grow back within a couple weeks. I finally completely beat it by raising my carbon dosing (vodka) and few drops of brightwell's microbacter7 twice a day. I raised the vodka dose to the point where zoanthid coral retreated and the heads got smaller. the glass could go 10 days without needing to be cleaned and when cleaned the film was not green but white (bacteria not algae). I literally starved the crap out of the tank! It took about 2 months of this and it slowly died off. surprisingly, the sps were not effected too much (a bit pale but happy and growing). my advice to anyone who wants to beat bryopsis is to starve the crap out of it and be persistent and patient. I have always run gfo and carbon but it's the carbon dosing that's the kiss of death.
 
Yup, I'm not expecting anything for a few days but a day by day on the tank seemed like a good idea. Without my skimmer and gfo running my tanks going to get pretty dirty, lol.
 
On a negative note, looks like your cyano spread a bunch in just a day. I don't expect this to have any impact on it, but not sure what you could do about it in the meantime so it doesnt get too crazy... Maybe vacuum through a sock right back into the tank (sump)? Don't know if i would want to mix chemiclean with the flucon just because of extra stress to the livestock.
 
Gorgok said:
On a negative note, looks like your cyano spread a bunch in just a day. I don't expect this to have any impact on it, but not sure what you could do about it in the meantime so it doesnt get too crazy... Maybe vacuum through a sock right back into the tank (sump)? Don't know if i would want to mix chemiclean with the flucon just because of extra stress to the livestock.
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By the looks of the powerhead placement, maybe the cyano is a flow issue. Doesn't look like anything is pointing downward, maybe I'm missing something.
 
Right now the peer heads make a nice little undertow with how they are, I'm still messing with them a bit as well, but I know why the cyano is there, from the last treatment I tried in the tank. If that's all I have to fix after this I will be a happy man, cyano is an easy fix, I can just blow off the coral for now.
 
I dosed tonight, after pulling my scrubber, and my reactor media.

I snapped some pics, after a few days here I will throw up some progress pics.

my outbreak isnt nearly as bad as everyone elses here, but i figured I would hammer at it before it got bad.

thanks guys, really hoping this works!
 
Trying out a Macro Lens I got for Christmas. This is a single little bunch of bryopsis (I think) on the side of my QT so I should be able to take a pic of it through out the treatment. I have no idea what I'm doing with the lens but hopefully I get better through the process. The meds should get here tomorrow and I'll dose around 5:30.

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Day 2 no change, i'm taking video clips and pics every day. i'll upload when i see a difference!

no reaction from coral or inhabitants either.
 
Little bit over 2 days, the bryopsis ends seem to be turning white, not sure if you can see that in the pic, but it seems like it's swaying more and losing strength.

 
I dosed tonight. 650mg of active ingredient fluconazole into 34gal of water. (Each 200mg capsule actually contained 380mg of powder)

I am curious about the uv exposure thing. Anything I run across specifies UV-254 and UV-210 as the degrading UV. You say to turn off leds but I have serious doubts that any aquarium led fixtures have any real UV in them. The lowest my fixture has are 420nm, 450nm, and 460nm. Not sure we need to be turning off our fixtures or am I missing something? I guess is you have anything under 400nm it may be wise but even so... 400nm is a far cry from 254 and 210.
 
tkeracer619 said:
I dosed tonight. 650mg of active ingredient fluconazole into 34gal of water. (Each 200mg capsule actually contained 380mg of powder)
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I never even thought to measure... I wonder if the other is just some filler to keep them from looking empty though?
 
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