My fight against bryopsis

[lostmyz]

So I started dosing Kent Marine Tech M... almost two weeks ago.. From what I have researched and read. This process can take up to a month or more to kill the nasty stuff! Keeping the Mg leve at or above 1600. The bryopsis will first turn brown and than start to die off. So I set it up on a BM-T01 doser and have it dosing 60ml of Kent Marine Tech M once a day. So far here is my progress...

The bryopsis has effectively turned brown in areas. And in the last 2 weeks has not grown at all. Which normally It grows out of control if not pruned back! I upped my Kent Marine Tech M dosing to 70ml a day today. I am hoping with my increase in Kent Marine Tech M to 70ml a day will kill it off faster making sure the Mg level is always well above 1600. With 60ml it was just at or hovering slightly below 1600ppm. I am glad that I bought a gallon of that Kent Marine Tech M stuff. I will probably need another small bottle just to make sure its all dead. I plan on running the Tech M for 1.5months or atleast 2 weeks after the bryopsis is comepletely dead!

Just thought I would share with everone

 

[Elliott]

It's not Mg that kills Bryopsis, it's some other ingredient in Tech M (or Brightwell Magnesion P which has the same mysterious ingredient).

In my experience it will eventually come back after stopping the treatment however I have been able to keep it driven back with a continuous slow drip of Magnesion P.

I purchase Magnesion P in a 5g bucket (powder form) which lasts much longer and more economical that buying liquid Tech M

I keep Mg in a range of 1600 - 1800

 

[Beefy_Reefy]

Kent Tech M melted some of my prize zoas. I slowly raised mag I think it was by 100 a day. About a month in my blue hornets and few other nice zoas melted away Kent did tell me to take mag to 1800 vs 1600 though. Maybe this was too high.

The majority of my zoas lived but lost color. I stopped the process since I didn't want anything else to die off and the bryopsis wasn't fading away. I had to pull the rocks with it. Bryopsis was growing in powerheads and I scrubbed them good but it came back.. After a few more scrubs finally over the battle. It was even growing in the sandbed but I could at least pick those out.

Still ****ed about the zoas that melted.
Bryopsis has been the hardest battle for me so far.

 

[lostmyz]

It's not Mg that kills Bryopsis, it's some other ingredient in Tech M (or Brightwell Magnesion P which has the same mysterious ingredient).

In my experience it will eventually come back after stopping the treatment however I have been able to keep it driven back with a continuous slow drip of Magnesion P.

I purchase Magnesion P in a 5g bucket (powder form) which lasts much longer and more economical that buying liquid Tech M

I keep Mg in a range of 1600 - 1800

Yes I know its not thr mag but something else in there. But keeping ur mag up with their ingredient os the key. So

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[lostmyz]

God bless Kent Marine Tech M

God bless Kent Marine Tech M

GOd bless this stuff its been on a doser for abou a month doing 70mL a day! It damn near GONE!!!!! I have a few places left to die off... I haven't seen my tank everyday for a few weeks, so I don't know if its a combo of the chemical solution and my sailfin tang and rabbitfish or just the solution itself. I will say this my tang has grown more than any of my other fish tho. So with the bryopsis on the decline. I just need to solve this stupid aptasia problem. I think today I will go get like 4 or 5 peppermint shrimp and give them a month while I QT A CBB AND GO FROM THERE.!!

 

[lostmyz]

Its ****ING DEAD!!! Sorry for the language!!! But finally!!!! finally!!! its alll freaking gone!!!!!!!!

Thank you Kent Marine Tech -M and my hungry fast growing sailfin tang and orange spotted rabbitfish! I couldn't have done it without you!

 

[Beefy_Reefy]

Congrats. Did 1600 mag do it or higher?

 

[lostmyz]

I was about 1650 on a doser for 6 weeks. I'm going tonletnit run for another 2-3 weeks to be safe!

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