Finally an easy solution to bryopsis!

I've had the same experience as TWallace... Ricordea have turned Hot Pink and Lime Green (oh, and Briareum tend to stay extended even at night now) A few stunned snails (no deaths so far) but hermits and evil hitchhiker crabs all unaffected in any way

My 1/2 gallon was leaking a tad and wrapped in a plastic bag when I got it :lol:

That being said, I'm down to the last bits of Bryopsis and I will make sure to keep Tech M on hand for future battles!! As a side note, Caulerpa is making its first appearance in my tank... I've had a ton of other algae beyond the Bryopsis (Hair, Sea Lettuce, Red Gracilaria, Sargassum, Cotton Candy, Valonia, Neomeris, Dictyota and several things I haven't been able to ID yet) But the Hair Algae is less now (think the Lawnmower and crabs/snails are working on it) and the Cotton Candy seems to be falling apart slowly (not sure if this is due to the Tech M or Polyp Labs Reef-resh I'm using to help get nutrients under control) The two species of Caulerpa are new in the last week, and only showed up after a majority of the Bryopsis was gone... something to think about anyway
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11985829#post11985829 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TWallace
I left mine elevated for around 2-3 months. I still get some growing on my return plumbing and on one of my Tunze nano streams, but never on the rocks, corals, sand or glass.
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Which this in itself leads me to the next set of questions..

1) Has anyone noticed a pattern that for some, that never had the stuff grow back in the tank after treatment, it can kind of grow back here and there, like in the overflows. It seems a bit odd, but, its like whatever is used in Kent "liquid gold" has coated the tank with something.
2) Assuming thats the case, what is it?
3) How absorbant to chemicls is PVC? Could one pull a treated peice, say after 2-3 months and do a chemicle analysis on it, from someone that had a bad case of this devious weed?

Maybe the ingredient were looking for is/has leeched into the PVC? After all, the weed doesnt seem to grow on anything the treatment touched, and, a peice of PVC is a easily affordable sacraficial .....uhm...peice to test.
 
For those of you using instant ocean, its low in magnesium (and calcium). I now use the tech-m to correct my freshly made salt water to 1300. I have no idea if this tiny bit with every water change matters at all, but I have seen no bryopsis since the treatment.
 
My update is that mg is at 2000 with Tech M and after 4 days 50% of the bryopsis have melted away. Still waiting a few more days to see if the remaining half will die. It def looks like they're about to kick the bucket. We'll see.
 
Very similar result here I've just done the 4th daily dose and some weakening in the bryopsis, but some still going strong. Because I had to wait a couple of months for the tech M to arrive I let the magnesium run down while I was waiting, it went to around 900, so I will have pleny of scope to put a lot of TechM in. It's now a little over 1400 I've done a bit more than the extra 100 ppm per day, but no detrimental effect on anything in the tank at all. Happy about the lack of side effects but hoping for a little more action on the bryopisis :)
 
wilsonh,

I had a similar experience of certain "tough spots".

90% of the bryopsis died within 14 days of MG 1600 -1800, but the remaining 10% seemed unaffected. After waiting an additional week and still no results in those tough spots , I decided to spot treat the bryopsis. I shut down all the pumps and used a turkey baster to deliver Tech-M directly on the bryosis. I waited 30 minutes and then restarted the pumps. A repeat treatment the next day resulted in complete eradication of the remaining bryopsis.

cheers
 
Good tip there Montreal, I've been battling B for 2-years now and recently started with Tech-M. LOL! A 2000L tank takes up a large amount of the stuff and the B was quite widespread. In conjunction with dosing Tech-M, I have also started the Vodka / Sugar dosing and pluck the B at every practicable occassion. I am pleased to report that the B is almost entirely gone and I will proceed with all due haste to spot prime the B as suggested ... Hasta la vista, B!

Tone :)
 
It's been 9 days at 2000 mg with tech m and the large patches of bryopsis have decreased in size. Today I manually removed all 5 patches of them. Will let y'all know if they come back at all. I would say the mg increasing with tech m works.
 
Well I'm now a believer, the Bryopsis, which was everywhere, has now pretty much gone the tank looks sparkling clean. I have only raised Mg to 1450 with Tech M but this has been very effective, from a starting level of 900. There is some tiny amount of Bryopsis left though, it is in the darker little cracks and crevises, it seems to be able to hold out where there is not so much light on it. I have rearranged some rocks so as to expose the last few patches to stronger light.

Weird thing is the skimmer has not noticeably picked up at all, I am a little worried where all those excess nutrients have actually gone. Anyhow, for now, a much nicer looking tank.
 
Congrats wilsonh. I walk around with a smile on my face nowadays. I just hope they don't come back. I don't know where they came from. I use ro/di with tds <004 or I'd replace the filters. I have A LOT of chaeto in a good size fuge. I don't have a Hanna phosphate meter but I'm pretty confident I don't have phosphates. Good to hear everyone's success stories.
 
wilsonh

I found the same thing to be true... I believe that whatever is killing off the Bryopsis is brought in with the Magnesium which is used during photosynthesis... the more photosynthesis, the more of quantity x is brought in, the faster the Bryo disintegrates... just an observation, not scientific proof :D
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13152069#post13152069 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mykel Obvious
the more photosynthesis, the more of quantity x is brought in, the faster the Bryo disintegrates... just an observation, not scientific proof :D
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That definately ties in with my observation!
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Also makes sense with what I'm seeing lately in my new system. Initially I had a couple tufts of bryopsis clinging to my Tunze nanostreams which I moved from my old tank into the new 120. After adding a powder blue tang, those disappeared. But recently I noticed that the insides of my overflow boxes are caked in bryopsis. It seems to be clinging to life in the low light/high nutrient portions of the tank. I'm ok with it remaining there I guess. Maybe I can turn off flow and hit the 2 overflow boxes with concentrated Tech M and let it sit for an hour or so. I can leave powerheads on in the tank to keep oxygen levels up.
 
TWallace,
Any way you could temporarily add a light to the overflows? Maybe light one and not the other and just bump up the Mag with Tech M and see if the lighted overflow cleans out while the other one doesn't? All in the name of science, of course :D

Death to Bryopsis!!! :lol:
 
I am pleased to report that after 2-years my display is now free of Bryopsis ... just a few dead whisps that the foxface and mimic tang haven't got around to. The clam shells are 100% clean :)

Using Tech-M, I raised Mg to 2300ppm for 4 weeks and am now busy letting it recede to 1800ppm where it will be maintained with Tech-M.

In conjunction with the Tech-M dosing, I started vodka / sugar dosing and reintroduced ozone as well ... gave the bryopsis the triple whammy!

I will also continue to dose reduced amounts of vodka / sugar as part of my regular husbandry schedule. Ozone will also stay on.

Apart from no bryopsis, the outcomes that I have experienced are enhanced coral growth and better colouration ... crystal clear water and lack of N & P.

I have lost a couple of fish but cannot attribute it soley to Mg ... the big H. crispa might have taken one of them. I have noticed that my foxface, whilst eating ravenously has hollowness behind the head and along the dorsal fin ... much like malnutrition although I feed the tank 2'ce or 3x per day with granuals and mixed frozen foods. This was alsoa symptom of my old Naso before its demise. Strangely, none of the other fish including tangs and rabbitfish display this appearance.

Tone :)
 
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