Bryopsis

[theswiftduck]

Good afternoon! I am hoping for some help!

I recently took my refugium off line because my nitrates and phosphates kept bottoming out and causing a Dino outbreak. I now have a balance in my reef with phosphates at .08 and nitrates at 6-15. However, since taking the refugium offline I have had a serious Bryopsis out break. I have had this tank running for 3 years and have never seen it before. I have quite a few high end acros in the tank and am scared to try reef flux because of them. I have heard it is either perfectly fine or destroys acro.

Has anyone beaten Bryopsis without it and if you have any help you can give me would be appreciated. I plan on taking out the rocks I can and manually removing as much Bryopsis aa possible. Then spray them down using 3% hydrogen peroxide. I am also getting some large turbo snails next week I have heard sometimes they will eat it.

Any tips and tricks would be appreciated and if I’m being too scared of reef flux tell me!

 

[Peace River]

Any chemical treatment comes with risks but I have not have negative impact from reef flux. Hand removal beforehand certainly helps and pulling any rocks and treating with H2O2 is also useful. Good luck!

 

[theswiftduck]

Any chemical treatment comes with risks but I have not have negative impact from reef flux. Hand removal beforehand certainly helps and pulling any rocks and treating with H2O2 is also useful. Good luck!

Have you run reef flux with acros before?

 

[Peace River]

Acropora and fluconazole

So I have the 'joy' of dealing with bryopsis in my Red Sea 425 (~100 gallons). My other, smaller tank, is all zoanthids and mushrooms, and tolerated fluconazole for the bryopsis in there just fine. But my Red Sea tank has about 20 acropora frags, and with acros being as touchy as they are, I am...

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[theswiftduck]

Acropora and fluconazole

So I have the 'joy' of dealing with bryopsis in my Red Sea 425 (~100 gallons). My other, smaller tank, is all zoanthids and mushrooms, and tolerated fluconazole for the bryopsis in there just fine. But my Red Sea tank has about 20 acropora frags, and with acros being as touchy as they are, I am...

www.reef2reef.com

Thank you!

 

[Gatorpa]

Has anyone noticed Reef flux affecting the accuracy of hanna PO4 or NO3 testers?

I wouldn’t think that it would but wanted to get other options.

@Peace River
@vetteguy53081

 

[vetteguy53081]

Has anyone noticed Reef flux affecting the accuracy of hanna PO4 or NO3 testers?

I wouldn’t think that it would but wanted to get other options.

@Peace River
@vetteguy53081

As far as im concerned, reef flux (fluconasal) is often an alternative and not a solution and Ive seen it cause problems for some coral. Best removal - accomplished by taking the rock out of tank and placing in a container of tank water. Then you will want to pull as much as you can by hand and discard. With a dental pick or small crochet needle, pull the roots off the rock. YOU MUST GET EVERY ROOT OR IT WILL SIMPLY RETURN !!
After you are done return rock to tank and reduce white light intensity and even hours of white light and add the following cleaners which will help with control. These guys will consume bryopsis but not as fast as bryopsis can grow - They will never keep up.
Pin cushion urchin, Chiton snails, pitho crabs, and larger astrea snails

This procedure is not as bad or time consuming as it seems. Assure phosphate levels do not become elevated which helps feed this algae

harbor Freight:

 

[Gatorpa]

As far as im concerned, reef flux (fluconasal) is often an alternative and not a solution and Ive seen it cause problems for some coral. Best removal - accomplished by taking the rock out of tank and placing in a container of tank water. Then you will want to pull as much as you can by hand and discard. With a dental pick or small crochet needle, pull the roots off the rock. YOU MUST GET EVERY ROOT OR IT WILL SIMPLY RETURN !!
After you are done return rock to tank and reduce white light intensity and even hours of white light and add the following cleaners which will help with control. These guys will consume bryopsis but not as fast as bryopsis can grow - They will never keep up.
Pin cushion urchin, Chiton snails, pitho crabs, and larger astrea snails

This procedure is not as bad or time consuming as it seems. Assure phosphate levels do not become elevated which helps feed this algae

harbor Freight:

Oh I agree and I’ve been pulling for months. PO4 is about 0.04 so I can’t go much lower.

issue is it’s a 150 gallon DT and to take all the rock work and clean and scrape is essentially a total reset. Just not feasible and will likely cause more potential death and destruction at this point.

TY for the reply.

 

[Tangdora]

Beat it yes. I had it real bad after bottoming out. However I will Not recommend the product unless you exhausted every final option. Used bright well razer. Killed 3 of my tangs using at full recommended dosing values. Had no choice but to push on. However after the 3 fish died. I halved the dose. And did not notice any further issue. Will say Fish partly died due to my blindness. Product does say to stop or reduce if signs of stress. Kinda ignore this when I notice my naso swimming sparatically.