Would this be a bad idea?

[aharrow]

Alright, bryopsis has pushed me to the edge of the cliff. I am ready to either sell everything in my tank and quit the hobby this weekend or drop a "nuclear bomb" on the tank. I would prefer to keep my tank and win this battle however I need to know if my idea is a bad idea.

Here is the plan:
Take my fish, snails, crabs, corals, anything living to the LFS who will hold my stuff for me for 2-3 weeks maybe longer if I ask nicely. Leave the rock and water, scoop out the sand. I have a 125 with sump and was thinking of dropping either a lot of distilled white vinegar or some bleach into the water and kill everything, and actually leave the closed loop running, and the overflows running for a week or so. Remove the calcium reactor and skimmer before doing this.

Now I am not trying to save the live rock as I figure if I use bleach that it is over for the rock. I have tried every method on this board with none of them working. You name it I've done it. It actually comes back stronger than before. The reason I want to continue running the system is that I have built an elaborate canopy that I cannot remove and therefore cannot clean my overflows. In the overflows are a massive amount of byropsis, so I figured that I would continue to run either bleach water or vinegar water which would hopefully kill what is in the overflows.

Does this sound like a bad idea or would this work? Any other methods you can think of?

Thanks

 

[klm2500hd]

Black the tank out with plastic, keep the skimmer running, Massive vacuuming and water changes????

Never tried this, but bleach in the tank doesn't sound like a good idea even if it is empty. I would worry about residual chlorine.

 

[Myrddraal]

Raise your magnesium to around 1600 using Kent Tech M. It got rid of a decent sized briopsis infestation I had. Raising mag with epsom salts didn't work for me, and neither did the Seachem mag supplement I tried. There's something in the Kent product that briopsis finds toxic. I lost some zoos and a shroom or two doing this, but if you're holding your livestock elsewhere I wouldn't be too worried.

 

[bluenassarius]

you can either raise your mag or raise your ph. both will reduce or get rid of it completely.

 

[Jeffrey Porter]

i had a bad hair algae problem. deceided i couldn't be bothered with it anymore. left the tank alone. pulled out big clumps then let it grow and starve itself out. took a few months but it worked. then i tore down my tank cause i didn't have time to take care of it.

 

[aharrow]

I already did the Kent Tech M bought a gallon of it. I raised it to 1600, nothing. Month later raised it to 1800, nothing. Month later raised it to 2000. Nothing. The only thing it did was turn my softies almost milk white and all zooanthids rarely opened up. They survived the ordeal but just barely. Killed most of my SPS.

I do massive water changes weekly sometimes up to 50 gallons. I run RowaPhos. I even run Rowaphos on my RO/DI water that I make up in a 35 gallon trash can. I bought a Hanna meter, the RO/DI water is 0. My tank is 0.02. I am tired of doing so many water changes. I have tried three different salts. My wallet is tired of doing water changes.

I ran every carbon source method. I ran sugar, I ran Vodka, I ran a combination of sugar, vodka, vinegar. I ran Predibio. I have tried every method over the past year that has been mentioned on this board. I bought every type of fish or snail or critter that was mentioned that consumed it. Nothing. The more I throw at it the more it thrives. It is taking over my tank and sucking the joy of a salt water tank from me. I am ready to give up. I have been in the hobby for seven years and for five and a half never had any issues ever with any type of algae ever.

Note to hobbyist out there. In my experience, The latest and greatest equipment or method might not beat the old tried and true ones. I think back to five years ago, before I dropped a ton of money on the latest Deltec skimmer, calcium reactor, etc and my tank was perfect. The water params were perfect from that old Berlin skimmer, etc. and two part dosing plan.

Any other thoughts on dropping some kind of "nuclear bomb" on my tank after I remove the fish and corals that I want to keep? Something that won't leach into my systems plumbing and stay there?

Thanks

 

[aharrow]

Is it possible to raise the water to like 3000 on the Mag and run the ph way high and let the system run for two weeks say? Can the water withstand that high of a concentration of mag or ph? Is that even possible?

Would that have any affect on my pumps or skimmer? Also what if I raised or reduced the salinity way down?

 

[Airwolf75]

Here's what you should do, drive to MD, and go to Pacific East Aquaculture, buy a couple Snakehead Cowries, you only need 3 or 4. Put them in the tank, and they'll probably eat it all. You could get a few short spine urchins to.

Then you'll be free.