Finally an easy solution to bryopsis!
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frederickk
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looks very efficient
davidryder
Claris or Elliot?
Sounds like it... we need to get the word out about this
TWallace
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Based on other's experiences, cooking the rocks won't usually kill the bryopsis. It can live with no lights and extremely little nutrients for a long, long time. So, yes I'd up the magnesium in your cooking tank to somewhere between 1500 and 1600. The bryopsis should be all gone within two weeks (most of it will be gone in 1 week, based on my experience).
illcssd
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Interesting, very interesting. Chewie just lmk about this thread and i have a freind that has been battling this algae for close to a year now. He has done everything twallace stated to no avail. I will let him know and see if i can get him to take pictures of the progress as it goes.
Thanks twallace.
Thanks twallace.
mr.gaboozlebag
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Do you know if this would work with other kinds of algae?
Peter Eichler
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I didn't have othe nuisance algae at the time but the high mag levels had no ill effects on coraline, Halimeda, Gracillaria, a few different Caulerpa sp., Botryocladia, and a few other macroalgaes.
If it is in fact the magnesium levels the killed the Bryopsis I don't think it will work on many other algae species.
TWallace
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Sorry, didn't take any FTS before the treatment. This particular rock was one of the worst spots in the tank, though, which is why I picked it.
I did have a minor tank incident this morning. I spent the night at my GF's place last night. When I got home this morning I noticed a strange noise coming from the tank. The return pump was sucking in air. The cause of this was the bryopsis in the fuge was falling apart and getting blown out into the main tank. The trouble with that is there was an astrea snail in the output tube. The dying bryopsis got stuck on the astrea snail, restricting the output of the refugium, which caused it to overflow, which then caused the sump to run low. I moved the snail and pulled out the dying bryopsis from the refugium to fix the flow.
Then I did something stupid. I poured water into my kalk top off bucket (I should have just poured it in the sump directly instead), which mixed with the kalk at the bottom of the bucket. The bucket then pumped that freshly mixed kalk into the tank, making the water very cloudy. I did a 25% water change, but all 4 of my clams (3 crocea, 1 derasa) have been spawning today as a result of the kalk. Nothing else seems affected and the water is finally clearing up now. I know that clams spawn when they're stressed. I don't know if clam eggs/sperm are detrimental to the system. This is the first time they've spawned.
I did have a minor tank incident this morning. I spent the night at my GF's place last night. When I got home this morning I noticed a strange noise coming from the tank. The return pump was sucking in air. The cause of this was the bryopsis in the fuge was falling apart and getting blown out into the main tank. The trouble with that is there was an astrea snail in the output tube. The dying bryopsis got stuck on the astrea snail, restricting the output of the refugium, which caused it to overflow, which then caused the sump to run low. I moved the snail and pulled out the dying bryopsis from the refugium to fix the flow.
Then I did something stupid. I poured water into my kalk top off bucket (I should have just poured it in the sump directly instead), which mixed with the kalk at the bottom of the bucket. The bucket then pumped that freshly mixed kalk into the tank, making the water very cloudy. I did a 25% water change, but all 4 of my clams (3 crocea, 1 derasa) have been spawning today as a result of the kalk. Nothing else seems affected and the water is finally clearing up now. I know that clams spawn when they're stressed. I don't know if clam eggs/sperm are detrimental to the system. This is the first time they've spawned.
Spracklcat
Disaster Expert
Clam eggs and sperm will do nothing but good for the tank--it's good coral food. And don't worry about the kalk addition either. Many people add a freshyly mixed slurry of kalk nightly with no ill effects. The water will clear and it will be fine. If anything, the extra pH boost will help kill off the Bryopsis.
Christine
Christine
