peiloy3196
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It's one dose. After fifteen days you can resume your water changes and turn back on any equipment/filtration that you may have turned off.
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Bryopsis possible solution
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It's one dose. After fifteen days you can resume your water changes and turn back on any equipment/filtration that you may have turned off.
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Thanks, i honestly can't remember a time when i didn't have bryopsis in the 3 years i've had a tank, so it will be new to me not having to go in weekly to pull it out.
To add to this, i turned my skimmer back on on day 4 without issue, also turned my gfo on on day 6. The bryopsis is still dying off.
I can't say anything on macro's as i don't have any right now, but as far as i'm aware, this medication is for a fungus and bryopsis shares something with that fungus on how it makes cholesterol, if i'm not mistaken, and blocks that process, killing the fungus, and in this case, bryopsis. At least thats what i gathered from reading. Coral don't share this same process so it's safe for a reef, i can't say which algae share this so some may be affected, some might not be affected. I can tell you i have some hair algae growing due to the die off, so i don't think it would work for hair algae.
BradR
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You rock OP! My bryopsis was out of control on my frag eggcrate so I replaced the egg crate and that helped a lot. It it comes back significantly I'm going to try the fluconazole but at 150mg per 60 liters. Who knows what the minimum dosage is, unless we experiment, right? Congrats on your discovery!
FullBoreReefer
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I say up to many months to rule out any long term side effects.
I don't believe there will be any, but a few weeks might not show any if that makes sense. Maybe if you stay clean for let's say 6mths, and no live stock or water chemistry changes, then, that should suffice.
I don't believe there will be any, but a few weeks might not show any if that makes sense. Maybe if you stay clean for let's say 6mths, and no live stock or water chemistry changes, then, that should suffice.
I believe the OP has been rid of it since November if i'm not mistaken with no side effects at this time.
peiloy3196
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Yes. I have been Bryopsis free since the start of November. All Sps, Lps and fish have shown no changes. Actually my SPS is once again thriving without the bryopsis. Water chemistry is stable.
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FullBoreReefer
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Trust me I'm not disagreeing but many people won't take one case and consider it fool proof. I firmly believe this is a cure for this algae issue. But to consider it a scientifically proven cure from one case is not how it works.
I want it to be a proven case, and while it surely looks to be, time will tell as more and more people take the plunge to give it a try. With many many cases of proven success then I would consider it a proven cure.
We hear all to often on these forums of what works for one, never makes a dent to another. With that being said, for example, a dozen or so people confirm this removal method, with no ill effect over manny many months, not just a few, then yes, it would be considered proven.
I'm not trying to be "that guy", I'm just stating what it takes to be a proven case.
So with that being said, hopefully more people take the chance, document their scenarios, and provide the info needed to prove this method.
So, people, if your considering this method, please take before pics, pics during the treatment, and after pics. State what your tank specs are and what livestock you have, weather it be fish or corals, and be specific. The reason I say specific is because there could be a species out there that doesn't cope with this drug and is killed off. Then future hobbiest know to either remove them during treatment, or not to risk it at all.
In my honest opinion I think "we" are on to something!
I agree, while there is only one long term case we see in this thread, I believe the 5 or so, give or take, people that have tried this method in this thread have a 100% success rate on killing bryopsis. Too soon to tell for long term effects, but to me that is a major sign. Tech m and H2O2 were touted as cures, but you can see from multiple threads if you were to pull the first 5 people who tried it, none were 100% effective.
FullBoreReefer
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I completely agree.
I really really do hope this is "it", this could be a major game changer for this hobby as a whole.
People could even start QT'ing frags in this medication before even introducing into their DT's to help stop the transfer of this invasive algae.
IvanTheTerrible
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That's a great idea. I think I'll give that a try when it's time to start filling up my tank.
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atraperegrinus
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That's actually not a bad idea, run it full time in a coral qt system.
I wonder how fast it would kill a small potion of bryopsis.
tkeracer619
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That is what I am doing. Seeing progress but I don't think 100% of my issue is bryopsis. The bryopsis is definitely suffering. So far so good. I have a macro progress shot from yesterday but am not home to post it. Will try for later.
Mrs. Music
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I am on day 4 and I am definately seeing less algae on my rock in my experiment tank. I was not sure it was bryopsis but it has improved. I will post pictures soon.
tkeracer619
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Day 3, Bryopsis is in serious trouble. The entire structure is white and frail.
Day 4, I don't think our test subject is feeling well :lol:
Today is day 5, hoping to see more progress on the algae tufts that are on the frag plugs.
Since I don't think our test subject is going to be much use I will have to find something else to take a photo of but for an example this is the tank as a whole... taken on day 1.
Day 4, I don't think our test subject is feeling well :lol:
Today is day 5, hoping to see more progress on the algae tufts that are on the frag plugs.
Since I don't think our test subject is going to be much use I will have to find something else to take a photo of but for an example this is the tank as a whole... taken on day 1.
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