Right on. My No3 is and has always been pretty low in this system. Like undetectable and it only rose to .25ppm at its peak during the treatment. My Po4 went from undetectable to .16ppm, but I have slowly lowered it to about .02ppm with water changes and GFO running in my reactor. I hope that running the GFO reactor this entire treatment will keep it in check and cause the algae to succumb to the treatment!
Well my no3 used to always be undetectable and couldn't get any no matter how hard i tried until i came across stump remover. Then i messed up and put in too much. With no surviving chaeto i haven't been able to go lower than 20ppm. I ordered a bunch and have a friend bringing me some on friday. So between now and then i am doing a thorough equipment cleaning as well as changing out all media reactors and doing about a hundred gallons total of a water change. That should at least get me back down to 10-20 PPM Then I will begin vodka dosing for a month and try fluconazole one more time if need be. I think the roots that I have left are green hair algae or something other than bryopsis. And if that is true the Vodka may actually knock it out since it's only roots.
Yes it is safe on SPS. I have a 180g full acros and montis and only one was upset although it could have been caused by the stump remover and not the fluconazole. In any case it came back. Pocilloporas are finicky anyway. It comes to around $30 For 20 - 200 mg capsules. 1 200mg capsule per 10g of total water volume as ONE dose.
5 only once not per day. Waite 14-21 days if a 2nd dose is needed. Bryopsis is usually gone before 14 days and green hair algae takes as long as 21 days. It depends on how much you have of it before treatment. I would suggest if you have a bunch and it's long pull out as much as you can first. Then turn off your carbon or remove it and remove the cup on your skimmer. Some people keep their gfo running which I would suggest doing it doesn't harm it either way. And if you're running purigen remove it from your system
Bummer. If h202 didn't turn it white then it's probably a species of bryopsis. I would try this treatment but to be safe I would put your chaeto in something like a 10 gallon tank and keep it Tumbling With the light on to keep it alive while you do the treatment.Ya man a tank full of coral. It's leaching from a few base rocks. PO4 reads 0.05 on hanna. H2O2 is scary to me also because I tried the trick where you pull some and put some in the container with it. It bubbled, but never turned white. I didn't wait very long though, how long does that usually take?
Yes. If it kills it then you know it's gha. If not try the fluconazole treatment.
I ran my first treatment the full 21 days with chaeto in my sump. It was not affected negatively. I had to harvest it regularly during the treatment actually. Some people have reported issues, but in my instance it is still growing and good to go. I actually just harvested a bunch right before my second round of treatment.
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Thanks @prsnlty I was just trying to find that!You're welcome
