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The only side effect would be if you had a refugium with other macro algae... Fluconazole will kill it too.will that have any side effect?
Remember to remove as much as possible by hand FIRST do not just dose fluc right away. If you kill hundreds of pieces of caulerpa or anything else all those nutrients accumulated over months/years are instantly back in the water. You will nuke your tank if you don't take any out first.thank you all for the response above!
as a summarize, for me seems using Fluconazole is the easiest and safest way - by so far information I read here and there. I will try this method first, let's wait and see if enventually not need to breakdown everything and start over
I love this forum and so many kind guys here! thank you again.
will turn back and give you a feedback of the result, this could be several weeks later, cheers!
thanks for your remind, I remembered that but forget to mention. I will do as good as I can to remove them from seeing as I know they will be turned to natrate, not want it to beyond 20ppmRemember to remove as much as possible by hand FIRST do not just dose fluc right away. If you kill hundreds of pieces of caulerpa or anything else all those nutrients accumulated over months/years are instantly back in the water. You will nuke your tank if you don't take any out first.
thanks und "danke"It looks like Caulerpa brachypus. A pain in the X.. In my experience there is no way to completely get rid of it unless you are happy with taking the rocks out ank kill everything on it. In my tank removing caulerpa just became a weekly routine. Just remove everything manually and keep doing it every week. If you move it to your sump it will take nutrients before the ones in the DT and make the work easier. The problem with this species of Caulerpa is that it can grow deep in the rocks and even when it looks like it is completely removed it will grow back in few weeks.
This is what I did for bryopsis and GHA and it got rid of it all. It didn’t even hurt my cheato. I did one dose and waited 14 days to do a water change. Then dosed again for another 14 days just to make sure everything was gone.Looks like C. brachypus, Fluconazole will kill it, might take 4-6 weeks, and a couple redosings, but it will 100% kill it.
Does not work at all with this species. Tried 3 times. They actually look better after blackoutYou could even try to do manual removal then a 72 hours for black out period.
I think to start with, I would suggest doing a few more frequent lower percentage water changes until it gets to a managable level for her to eat. I would probably suggest starting there. Unless you've already tried that. Have you tried to identify the algae type so you can try and search to see what else might eat it in order to help her out?
this type of algea spreads so fast, is just beyond my control, but all water premeters are within normal range, of course no no3 problem, it is around 1~2
the question is if allow this algea attacking the othe creatures, some of my corals might hard to live, tried buy one algea fish but it overwhelm her ability…
any idea? turn over would be a huge work...
? it is stated various times. It is Caulerpa brachypus.I think to start with, I would suggest doing a few more frequent lower percentage water changes until it gets to a managable level for her to eat. I would probably suggest starting there. Unless you've already tried that. Have you tried to identify the algae type so you can try and search to see what else might eat it in order to help her out?