Chrysophtes and Flucanzole ?

David osborne · Feb 18, 2018

Hi can any one tell if they have treated chrysophtes with flucanzole ?

Chrysophtes is a bad fungus infection like a nuisance algae so i have been told , I need to know if I can kill off the infection with a treatment of flucanzole

Jose Mayo · Feb 18, 2018

Try to read this thread, you can find lots of information here:

Chrysophytes?! Help me cure it?

Regards

mcarroll · Feb 18, 2018

(Good link!! Just for anyone following after this.... #chrysophytes are not a fungus, but an algae. You can click that #tag to find other posts that have been similarly tagged in the past, BTW.)

saltyfilmfolks · Feb 18, 2018

mcarroll said:
(Good link!! Just for anyone following after this....#chrysophytes are not a fungus, but an algae. You can click that #tag to find other posts that have been similarly tagged in the past, BTW.)

It works quite well on many many algaes. Interesting stuff.

David osborne · Feb 18, 2018

Lets see how flucanzole affets chrysophtes and thanks im needing luck too

mcarroll · Feb 18, 2018

mcarroll said:
(Good link!! Just for anyone following after this.... #chrysophytes are not a fungus, but an algae. You can click that #tag to find other posts that have been similarly tagged in the past, BTW.)

Huh....had to edit a space before the # sign to get that tag to be a tag. Edit complete!

mcarroll · Feb 18, 2018

Jose Mayo said:
Try to read this thread, you can find lots of information here:

Chrysophytes?! Help me cure it?

David osborne said:
Lets see how flucanzole affets chrysophtes and thanks im needing luck too

In spite of the advice and how easy chrysophytes are to deal with "by hand"?

DarkSky · Feb 19, 2018

I had those for months. Not impossible to deal with by hand, but it is difficult. You can blow it off of rockwork and suck it out.

I finally beat mine after manually removing what I could and doing a three day lights out period. While doing this I dosed PO4/NO3 as chrysophytes prefer clean water. I ended up doing three cycles to kick mine. If possible, introduce a competing algae (like green film algae from glass of an established tank) to out compete it for space. I used bacteria competion but I think algae would be better long term.

You can read about my progress from chrysophyte plague to clear rockwork here.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/c...fy-treat-and-remove-it-from-your-tank.299585/