Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole

[Chrille26]

Hi! I dosed my tank with a dose of Fluconazole three days ago! According to the instructions I can start my skimmer and carbon reactor now.
There is one thing I regret that I didnt do before dosing and was wondering if I can do now.
I pulled alot out before dosing, but looking into the tank now there is alot of tufts I could reach in and remove manually. My question is, is there any negative aspects of me doing manual removal now during Flux treatment? Should I leave the algae as is now and let the Flux do its thing, or is it better that I continue to remove most manually during treatment?

Thanks for any advice!

 

[ScottB]

Hi! I dosed my tank with a dose of Fluconazole three days ago! According to the instructions I can start my skimmer and carbon reactor now.
There is one thing I regret that I didnt do before dosing and was wondering if I can do now.
I pulled alot out before dosing, but looking into the tank now there is alot of tufts I could reach in and remove manually. My question is, is there any negative aspects of me doing manual removal now during Flux treatment? Should I leave the algae as is now and let the Flux do its thing, or is it better that I continue to remove most manually during treatment?

Thanks for any advice!

Manually remove as much as possible. Exporting the nutrient. Also, exposing the the base roots to the light is very helpful. The medication is active during photosynthesis.

If you are dosing 2-part, watch your alkalinity. Often, consumption drops leading to a spike in ALK.

 

[Chrille26]

Manually remove as much as possible. Exporting the nutrient. Also, exposing the the base roots to the light is very helpful. The medication is active during photosynthesis.

If you are dosing 2-part, watch your alkalinity. Often, consumption drops leading to a spike in ALK.

Thanks for the reply and the advice! Then it is gloves on tomorrow and time to get wet.
I do use 2-part so I will have to up my testing to see any changes the coming days!.

 

[Huskymaniac]

Add me to the list of sps issues. Lost PE extension on a few peoces and woke up this morning to my ORA Purple Plasma rtning. Noticed some stn'ing on a few random branches of some other peices. Still have some small peices of bryopsis on day 9. Not sure if I should call it quits at this point with water changes and polyfilters.

 

[ScottB]

Add me to the list of sps issues. Lost PE extension on a few peoces and woke up this morning to my ORA Purple Plasma rtning. Noticed some stn'ing on a few random branches of some other peices. Still have some small peices of bryopsis on day 9. Not sure if I should call it quits at this point with water changes and polyfilters.

Do you have another separated tank that you can move SPS to? If yes, move and crush the bryopsis with a longer light cycle and more Fluc. If no, abort now and do massive WC. Talk to @Wunderpus about this.

 

[Wunderpus]

Do you have another separated tank that you can move SPS to? If yes, move and crush the bryopsis with a longer light cycle and more Fluc. If no, abort now and do massive WC. Talk to @Wunderpus about this.

Honestly, I wouldn't even move them if it was my tank... I'd hate to spread the infection that you're treating. My current tank that had the horrific RTN episode is being treated like Chernobyl currently... I refuse to have any sort of cross-contamination, just to be safe.

 

[Huskymaniac]

Honestly, I wouldn't even move them if it was my tank... I'd hate to spread the infection that you're treating. My current tank that had the horrific RTN episode is being treated like Chernobyl currently... I refuse to have any sort of cross-contamination, just to be safe.

Don't think it was an infection per say. Definitly a direct reaction to the bryopsis.

 

[ScottB]

Don't think it was an infection per say. Definitly a direct reaction to the bryopsis.

So what did you decide to do? What worked/did not work?

 

[Huskymaniac]

So what did you decide to do? What worked/did not work?

Just let it ride. Fragged dead branches and did water change and poly filters.

 

[blacksea]

Hi everyone. I was considering to give it a try on GHA, but seeing the prices for this and having in mind that you use it over a longer period some even permanently this is not for my budget... Does anyone know a secret source for lower prices?

 

[blacksea]

Hi everyone. I wanted to try Fluconazole on GHA and was also considering a low permanent dosage as some do. But seeing the prices for this I decided, that this is not for my budget. Does anyone know a secret source?

 

[Mooj]

Looking for some advice from others on whether a second round of fluconazole should be done even if it looks like the first round was successful initially. I had a mix of GHA and bryopsis which pretty much looks totally gone but I am nervous the bryopsis could return down the line given how invasive the roots are. I ran both Vibrant (had a minor bubble algae problem too and figured why not go full force after the GHA/bryopsis) and fluconazole and have continued the Vibrant since doing the water change after fluconazole was in the system for 3 weeks. I have no sps in my tank at present because of a tank crash this past summer, so I would rather run the second round of fluconazole now and not later once I have sps back in the tank should the bryopsis recur. Any advice or experience on doing a second round of fluconazole even without visible bryopsis would be appreciated

 

[Huskymaniac]

Looking for some advice from others on whether a second round of fluconazole should be done even if it looks like the first round was successful initially. I had a mix of GHA and bryopsis which pretty much looks totally gone but I am nervous the bryopsis could return down the line given how invasive the roots are. I ran both Vibrant (had a minor bubble algae problem too and figured why not go full force after the GHA/bryopsis) and fluconazole and have continued the Vibrant since doing the water change after fluconazole was in the system for 3 weeks. I have no sps in my tank at present because of a tank crash this past summer, so I would rather run the second round of fluconazole now and not later once I have sps back in the tank should the bryopsis recur. Any advice or experience on doing a second round of fluconazole even without visible bryopsis would be appreciated

If it were me I would since you are basically empty. If you had a ton of SPS I would definitly not recommend it.

 

[ScottB]

Looking for some advice from others on whether a second round of fluconazole should be done even if it looks like the first round was successful initially. I had a mix of GHA and bryopsis which pretty much looks totally gone but I am nervous the bryopsis could return down the line given how invasive the roots are. I ran both Vibrant (had a minor bubble algae problem too and figured why not go full force after the GHA/bryopsis) and fluconazole and have continued the Vibrant since doing the water change after fluconazole was in the system for 3 weeks. I have no sps in my tank at present because of a tank crash this past summer, so I would rather run the second round of fluconazole now and not later once I have sps back in the tank should the bryopsis recur. Any advice or experience on doing a second round of fluconazole even without visible bryopsis would be appreciated

I would hammer it again while SPS fallow. Uncertain how to word my advice, but any shaded areas that had bryopsis are the most likely to survive treatment. So check around ledges, and maybe move the rock around a little to make sure it is illuminated. The stuff only works during the active photosynthetic process.

 

[Jasontkd]

I need help.

I had ulva all over my tank, and I treated with Vibrant. It went away and cause (what I thought to be) a cyano outbreak along with a bunch of brownish hair algae.

I pulled a rock from the tank to see the algae closer and out of the tank, the hair algae appeared green. The cyano was reddish in color and very stringy.

I dosed flux RX yesterday to try and get rid of the hair algae. I figured I would get rid of the hair and then treat the cyano.

I am starting to get concerned that maybe I am actually dealing with dinos because my nitrate and phosphate are reading zero.

the hair algae seems to be spreading still. So I don’t know what to do. I want to give the flux time to work.
I have posted pictures for reference, but I can’t get the pictures to come out right.

Can I treat vibrant along with flux?

 

[Jasontkd]

Poctures

 

[Mooj]

Poctures

I just treated my tank with both Vibrant and fluconazole at the same time. I started the Vibrant initially about 4 weeks earlier before running the fluconazole which probably wasn’t enough time to see a huge difference. But once the fluconazole went in I did see a pretty good response to both GHA and bryopsis. I would suggest hanging in there, keep the tank well aerated, and keep an eye on your nutrients and hopefully you will see some results.

 

[Huskymaniac]

For those that had Acro issues after usimg Fluconazole how long was the full recovery?

 

[tgafish]

Started treatment yesterday for Bryopsis. Reef Flux 5 capsules for a 50 gallon system. Mixed with RODI and dumped into my sock in the sump. Added around midday. ATM sanitized and offline. Skimmer running but turned down not to create skimmate
Had one clown acting weird and not overly interested in eating last night. Clown is fine today
Cat eye paly was a little unhappy yesterday and today is closed up. Blue hornets closed up also but they are tempermental. All other palys and zoas are fine.
Favias, Monti's, Lepto, Lepesteria,
Euphyllias are all looking irritated but not totally retracted. Duncan immediately retracted but is better today.
Very healthy Fuzzy Bear Acro went white over night. All other Acros showing no adverse effect.
Red Blasto closed up but purple is fine. Mushrooms closed up
All inverts look fine.

I'll try to keep updating as hopefully things go smoothly.

 

[Breadman03]

Here’s a link to a paper in the efficacy of using ozone to remove pharmaceuticals from wastewater. See page 6 for a diagram that includes fluconazole. Though I’m not sure how to translate the data to our hobby, I suspect someone here does. If not, I might get it figured out over the next few days. They do categorize it as “recalcitrant” to ozone degradation, so I suspect we might be fine to continue ozone use during treatment.

(PDF) Required ozone doses for removing pharmaceuticals from wastewater effluents

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