Started Fluconazole to kill Bryopsis and GHA... A daily report....

CC13 · Aug 27, 2018

Just to double check, there is a 1-time dose of 200mg per 10 gallons of salt water is this correct?

Can anyone confirm this for me?

nanomania · Nov 8, 2018

Dosing is as per exact water volume (excluding rocks sand etc) or total tank volume???

CC13 · Nov 8, 2018

nanomania said:
Dosing is as per exact water volume (excluding rocks sand etc) or total tank volume???

I didn't account for LR. I estimated total system volume by the size of my tanks and dosed like that.

I am on day 5 and its working wonderfully.

Travis Stewart · Nov 8, 2018

CC13 said:
I didn't account for LR. I estimated total system volume by the size of my tanks and dosed like that.

I am on day 5 and its working wonderfully.

Such a hidden gem! Mine did come back and treated multiple times. I think three total and reccomended doses. After the third I increased feedings and added like 3-5 more turbos and my rocks have never been so shiny. We won’t talk about the sand bed lol

nanomania · Nov 9, 2018

Tablets available, not capsules. will it work? The other ingredients are colour and filler.

Can i start skimmer after 72hrs? As per "reef flux".

I have GHA issue

Travis Stewart · Nov 9, 2018

nanomania said:
Tablets available, not capsules. will it work? The other ingredients are colour and filler.

Can i start skimmer after 72hrs? As per "reef flux".

I have GHA issue

I would try vibrant first over this.

Mikedawg · Nov 9, 2018

nanomania said:
Dosing is as per exact water volume (excluding rocks sand etc) or total tank volume???

I calculate mine based on water volume

nanomania · Nov 9, 2018

Travis Stewart said:
I would try vibrant first over this.

Im from india, this is the only 1 available here

Jeff_H · Nov 11, 2018

@Fish Werx - I just read the whole thread and wanted to say thanks for sharing your journey. I'm on day 12 of my initial treatment and I'm wondering if your second round was successful? I appear to be experiencing the same results where most of the bright areas are dying off, but the darker areas appear to be holding on and not changing very much.

Thanks again!

CC13 · Nov 11, 2018

Jeff_H said:
@Fish Werx - I just read the whole thread and wanted to say thanks for sharing your journey. I'm on day 12 of my initial treatment and I'm wondering if your second round was successful? I appear to be experiencing the same results where most of the bright areas are dying off, but the darker areas appear to be holding on and not changing very much.

Thanks again!

Same with me... bright areas are dying off, but the darker areas appear to be holding on. I am 10 days in at this point.

nanomania · Nov 11, 2018

I dosed 2000mg in my 130g with a total water volume of approx 100g for GHA issue. Its been 2days though, hopefully all goes well.

Midnightt · Apr 9, 2019

Tomorrow is day 7. Have not noticed any changes yet. Was hoping to have something happen at this point. Used 20 200mg tablets on my 180. GHA is still growing strong and healthy.:mad:

Jo P White · Apr 9, 2019

Midnightt said:
Tomorrow is day 7. Have not noticed any changes yet. Was hoping to have something happen at this point. Used 20 200mg tablets on my 180. GHA is still growing strong and healthy.:mad:

It takes several weeks to see a different with hair algae. It took a month for me to see a big change and still I had algae.

Midnightt · Apr 10, 2019

Just realized it is actually Day 6 today. Still little improvement. I did trim the macro algae yesterday since it was running out of room to tumble. Trimmed a full 3 gallon bucket worth which is about half. Doubt trimming will help slow down the GHA. I actually turned the skimmer up a touch too. Still not foaming into the cup. But, the skimmer is getting dirty inside the chamber so I wanted to be able to reach that with a rag.

Current plans are to go 21 days and then do a large water change and use my water change pump and hose to try to spray it off the rocks. After water change I'll run carbon and change the GFO. Give it a few more days and likely try again with the fluconazole.

tnw50cal · Jul 15, 2020

11 pages and the OP stopped posting to the thread he started leaving anyone who read all 11 pages with nothing to show for it. I guess I'm going with it didn't work.

Nickolas · Jul 15, 2020

Read the post but since op isnt active wanted to ask yall, Should I try vibrant over fluconazole? I like the idea of the latter because I heard vibrant has caused the death of snails?

tnw50cal · Jul 15, 2020

Nickolas said:
Read the post but since op isnt active wanted to ask yall, Should I try vibrant over fluconazole? I like the idea of the latter because I heard vibrant has caused the death of snails?

I'm 6 weeks in using Vibrant for a bad GHA problem. All snails are fine. Can't say the same for my beautiful RBTA. It lost color, got really short tenacles and then split in two. Can't find one half and the other looks like crap and won't eat(split weeks ago). Meanwhile the GHA is growing like nothing is trying to kill it.

Robert Binz · Jun 3, 2021

Nickolas said:
Read the post but since op isnt active wanted to ask yall, Should I try vibrant over fluconazole? I like the idea of the latter because I heard vibrant has caused the death of snails?

Vibrant didn’t really do anything for my bryopsis but it did kill my my favorite snail and some orange zoas