Will fluconazole kill my cheato

[fishybizzness]

Question, will fluconazole treatment kill my chaeto ? I am thinking about treating my tank for bryopsis and hair algea. I am running a bucket refugium with chaeto and was wondering if anyone has experience with reef flux affecting their chaeto. Thanks

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

Yeah it will wipe it out. Stick it in the bucket for a few weeks should be fine and put fuge light on a timer with an airstone.

 

[fishybizzness]

Thanks for the reply. Its already in a bucket so I will just shut off the flow valve feeding the bucket I guess. Can I just put a small powerhead in the bucket for flow or do you think an airstone is necessary? I'm just trying to limit the bubbles causing alot of salt creep.

 

[fishybizzness]

Bucket setup

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

When I used a powerhead the pump broke fairly quickly as the algae wrapped around the impeller. Skip the air stone and just use airline for large and infrequent bubbles.

 

[fishybizzness]

When I used a powerhead the pump broke fairly quickly as the algae wrapped around the impeller. Skip the air stone and just use airline for large and infrequent bubbles.

Good point

 

[CoralNerd]

I took my chaeto out put it in a bucket with no powerhead and no light. I put chaeto back in on the 5th day and my chaeto didn't die. Got rid my hair algae in the DT and chaeto survived. Pretty happy about that :)

 

[fishybizzness]

I took my chaeto out put it in a bucket with no powerhead and no light. I put chaeto back in on the 5th day and my chaeto didn't die. Got rid my hair algae in the DT and chaeto survived. Pretty happy about that :)

Thanks for the reply! There's nothing better than an actual result! Did you go the full 2 weeks before a water change?

 

[CoralNerd]

Yes

 

[CoralNerd]

Note I run chaeto in a reactor but I imagine if it wasn't in a reactor it would still survive when placed back in your refugium. Give it a go and report back here.

 

[fishybizzness]

Will do

 

[ReeferHooked]

Question, will fluconazole treatment kill my chaeto ? I am thinking about treating my tank for bryopsis and hair algea. I am running a bucket refugium with chaeto and was wondering if anyone has experience with reef flux affecting their chaeto. Thanks

Yes it did mine but it will kill the Hair algae in 3 weeks. Reef Flux

 

[fishybizzness]

Yes it did mine but it will kill the Hair algae in 3 weeks. Reef Flux

I'm taking the bucket refugium off line and I'll be running it with a small pump for the 2 or 3 weeks that I'm running the fluconazole. I'll just add some iron supplement and a few pellets of food every few days to keep it going until I hook it back up.

 

[fishybizzness]

I'm probably going to start the treatment in a week or so.

 

[Bubba002]

I took my chaeto out put it in a bucket with no powerhead and no light. I put chaeto back in on the 5th day and my chaeto didn't die. Got rid my hair algae in the DT and chaeto survived. Pretty happy about that :)

We’re you using the fluconazol for only 5 days?

 

[CoralNerd]

We’re you using the fluconazol for only 5 days?

The full 2 weeks.
I hear your sps didn't like it the last time you used it? Ty mentioned he had bad results.

 

[Bubba002]

Diatoms set in about w weeks later when I used it. I have 30 pills left. anybody want to try them?

 

[ReefED!]

Yeah it will wipe it out. Stick it in the bucket for a few weeks should be fine and put fuge light on a timer with an airstone.

Btw I tried this and my Chaeto got wiped out

The bucket + fuge light + airstone thing was a total failure. I just ended up tossing the whole batch.