ID Please and Suggestions to Eliminate

[hilde123]

Griss, ok, I'll test every 3-4 days and add 2-part to bring alk/calcium to DT levels. That's about all I can think of that I'd need to worry about.

 

[griss]

Griss, ok, I'll test every 3-4 days and add 2-part to bring alk/calcium to DT levels. That's about all I can think of that I'd need to worry about.

Agreed. I’m just thinking since this is a calcerous algae, if Ca and Alk drop in the Q tank, it might not reflect what will happen in the DT with this algae/Flucon.

 

[hilde123]

Pictures from this evening, I can’t say I see any difference but too early to draw any conclusions as I read it could take upto 14 days with this macro so we’ll see…

 

[hilde123]

Here are pics from 13 days, if you look closely and compare with initial there are a few additional stalks (maybe 5%) and some stalks seem to show no growth and others show small growth. Overall I’d say not very effective. I think I’ll do another round with same dose for another 14 days and see what that does unless anyone has another suggestion.

 

[griss]

Here are pics from 13 days, if you look closely and compare with initial there are a few additional stalks (maybe 5%) and some stalks seem to show no growth and others show small growth. Overall I’d say not very effective. I think I’ll do another round with same dose for another 14 days and see what that does unless anyone has another suggestion.

Damn.

 

[JCOLE]

Here are pics from 13 days, if you look closely and compare with initial there are a few additional stalks (maybe 5%) and some stalks seem to show no growth and others show small growth. Overall I’d say not very effective. I think I’ll do another round with same dose for another 14 days and see what that does unless anyone has another suggestion.

Sorry to hear that. I was wondering if it would make a difference. I could be mistaken but it looks like there is some other algae on the rocks which Fluconazole should have taken care of. You could double the dosage and see.

Are you able or willing to remove all corals from the rocks? If so, you could get some Algaefix and dose that. I am sure over a month it should die off. You could do a big water change on your QT tank to remove the Fluconazole and then try Algaefix on it. It's cheap and that could work. I wouldn't dose that to a tank that has any sensitive corals though.

If that doesn't work then you might want to try praying.

 

[hilde123]

I'm not sure Algaefix will do it, in this thread seems that it didnt. I'm gonna try to redose the QT tonight with Fluconazole and see what that does. In my DT I keep doing the manual removal approach which, while taking several hours, keeps the stalks small. When doing removal last night I noticed that they seem to have less anchoring now, when pulling on them it seems better than half the entire stalk and root detaches where before most time it would break somewhere in the base portion of the stalk but at least 25% of stalk would remain. I also added a Dolobella Sea Hare last week and I saw it tugging on some of the smaller stalks and appearing to consume them immediatly after putting in. Since then I havent seen him doing any grazing in the tank but I guess they are nocturnal so I may just not be seeing him in action. That said I didnt see it for about two days so I assumed it must have died but it showed up on the bottom corner of my tank so wasn't dead then. The guy at my LFS (Top Shelf Aquatics) whos seems pretty knowledgeable suggested that a One Spot Foxface would likely graze on the Neomeris. Thinking maybe between the 10 or so tuxedo urchins in there and a Foxface maybe, with manual removal, those predator's can eradicate or at least keep it at bay. The LFS guy also suggested removing any rocks that had the neomeris on them (that could be easily removed) and scrub them vigorously with a steel brush, he thought that would remove the anchor points of the neomeris (not sure I read where some say you have to chisel them out of the rock). I may try that method on a few rocks and see how effective it is. That would, at best, only help with the ~30% of rocks that I could get out of tank but maybe with all the approaches I can get it under control. That said, I swear it is still spreading and I'm seeing new sprouts in places where there previously weren't any (especially on the glass).

 

[hilde123]

Not sure if the tuxedo urchins are removing or moving the Neomeris

 

[hilde123]

I’ve went ahead and broke down QT, I don’t see much difference with second dose of Fluc, this is end after one month. Next try is Foxface Rabbitfish. Sea Hare didn’t have appetite for it.

 

[griss]

Man, I sorry you're dealing with this. I hope the Foxface takes care of it for you.

 

[Cdentata]

More Bryopsis woes here (sounds like it could be a blues tune)
I first dosed on 6/4
6/5 and 6/13 - PO4 .03-.07 and NO3 0.4
Everything seemed ok, although the algae did not change color; however, I did not have my lights dimmed or off.
6/20 - added an Atlantic Lettuce Sea Hare. I have not seen it lately.
6/22-6/23 - 4 fish died
6/23 - pH was 7.4; PO4 and NO3 still similar to above readings
6/23 - Did a 20% water change and removed all of my rocks to clean off the algae; dosed again with FluxRx
6/24 - pH 8-8.1 and Alk - 9.3
7/5 - seeing Bryopsis angain! Almost enough to make me quit the hobby.
My fish/coral supplier gave me the initial diagnosis that it is Bryopsis based on a picture that his curator viewed.
Based on what I read above, something does not seem right. Perhaps I should remove the next rock I see with Bryopsis on it and dosed with FluxRx with no light present?
Any suggestions appreciated!

 

[Cdentata]

Two pictures that I sent to my supplier. Somebody in my local aquarium looked at them and thought it was GHA. Still, FluxRx is supposed to kill either of them.