Day 3 of treatment with 0.25mg/mL ciprofloxacin for brown jelly disease on hammer and potentially elsewhere
Day 3 of treatment with 20mg/L flucozanole for bryopsis
1mL vibrant after weekly water changes for past 4-5 weeks
Stopped adding Microbacter7 about 5 days ago (was seeding Seachem Matrix in AIO chamber for next tank--right now I don't know if it's a good idea to use it!)
Recently removed 3 pieces of rubble that were overrun with GHA and bryopsis
NO3 is between 0 and 5 on API test (down from usually 5-10)
PO4 is either 0 or 0.03 on Salifert test (i cannot see any difference between the two)
--> I removed chemipure blue packets before fluc/cipro
--> added spoon of Phosguard because I read that fluc could cause spike in PO4 as algae dies
Photos below. See that the rocks have become "fuzzy" with brown all over them (whereas previously non-fuzzy green all over). Sandbed also has lots of brown patches growing very quickly. I don't know if this is Dinos since NO3 and PO4 seems to be tanking, or just GHA and bryopsis going a bit brown due to the fluc treatment--I am afraid it's the former. Actually, I don't know what all of this is--I thought the patches on the sandbed were bryopsis, but now it looks more like a mat with strings coming up from it...
I am not sure what to do since I'm in the middle of Cipro and Fluc treatment. I could stop the Fluc treatment for an intervention and restart later, but I need at least 3 more days of Cipro for the BJD (hammer has perked up very slightly, so I'm holding out hope it'll make it through).
Advice very much appreciated. I won't have a microscope until Xmas. What is the minimal magnification to see dinos? 400x? 40x? 10x?
Zoas are not happy.
Silver lining? My conch seems to have woken from its weeks-long nap.
Day 3 of treatment with 20mg/L flucozanole for bryopsis
1mL vibrant after weekly water changes for past 4-5 weeks
Stopped adding Microbacter7 about 5 days ago (was seeding Seachem Matrix in AIO chamber for next tank--right now I don't know if it's a good idea to use it!)
Recently removed 3 pieces of rubble that were overrun with GHA and bryopsis
NO3 is between 0 and 5 on API test (down from usually 5-10)
PO4 is either 0 or 0.03 on Salifert test (i cannot see any difference between the two)
--> I removed chemipure blue packets before fluc/cipro
--> added spoon of Phosguard because I read that fluc could cause spike in PO4 as algae dies
Photos below. See that the rocks have become "fuzzy" with brown all over them (whereas previously non-fuzzy green all over). Sandbed also has lots of brown patches growing very quickly. I don't know if this is Dinos since NO3 and PO4 seems to be tanking, or just GHA and bryopsis going a bit brown due to the fluc treatment--I am afraid it's the former. Actually, I don't know what all of this is--I thought the patches on the sandbed were bryopsis, but now it looks more like a mat with strings coming up from it...
I am not sure what to do since I'm in the middle of Cipro and Fluc treatment. I could stop the Fluc treatment for an intervention and restart later, but I need at least 3 more days of Cipro for the BJD (hammer has perked up very slightly, so I'm holding out hope it'll make it through).
Advice very much appreciated. I won't have a microscope until Xmas. What is the minimal magnification to see dinos? 400x? 40x? 10x?
Zoas are not happy.
Silver lining? My conch seems to have woken from its weeks-long nap.