My Little Bryopsis Battle and Kent Tech-M Opinions

[jonboyb]

I picked up a clam a couple months ago and recently it had a tiny patch of bryopsis show up. QT would not have even mattered in this case it took so long to show. Anyways, I waited a little while until I saw the patch spread to a neighboring rock so I had 2 small patches about the size of a quarter. I let my MG fall once the bryopsis was noted to hopefully get the biggest impact once I began dosing Tech-M and it had dropped to 1250 at the start of treatment. I've currently completed 3 days of dosing shooting for 100ppm increase per day. The bryopsis is COMPLETELY gone, I mean evaporated, at only 1550 MG. I'm going to dose the final treatment tonight that should put me at 1650 just to be sure.

I know there have been mixed opinions of the Tech-M treatment, but it has proven very effective for me. No signs of any change in any corals, fish, or inverts other than one colony of Galaxy Sparkle zoas which have turned an really cool color now....hope they stay this way...LOL. Like they are albinos now. I have noted a jump in ALK of 2 dKh and my salinity has jumped from 1.025 to 1.0265 during treatment.

 

[bdesper311]

worked for me too... for some reason it works!

 

[oil_fan]

+1 on Kent Tech M.

I've had huge success with this. I do recommend keeping your Mg up for at least a few weeks to be sure to eradicate the stuff. You can't let a tiny spec survive. Then bring it back down via normal water changes.

 

[jonboyb]

Tank has been at MG 1650 for a week now. 3 zoa colonies and my large elephant ear mushroom have shown light bleaching but still healthy. My 2 scroll corals have also somewhat bleached but seem perfectly healthy. Lost a small SPS frag but can't say that had anything to do with Tech-M. No other issues.

On another note, obviously the bryopsis melted days ago but I have 2 rocks that have had a small patch of REALLY dense turf algae for over a year. Never gets bigger but never goes away either. Now after a week the turf algae just disappeared. No turning white, etc., just poof gone All algae in my standalone fuge is also gone and the acrylic is sparkling clean. Chaeto and macros seem unaffected. Pods also seem more abundant although they are probably just more visable in the fuge now that the film/hair algae is gone from the fuge.

 

[oil_fan]

Awesome to hear!! If I were you, I'd keep your mag levels up for another 2 weeks just to be safe. But you're well on your way!! :up:

 

[dartfrog]

Just a side note...currently in the middle of moving my tank to a bigger one and while everything is being held in a holding tank for a few weeks I decided to try and get rid of the bryopsis with Tech M. There is only light over half the tank right now and the algea only dissappeared in that side. The unlight side was unchanged...I moved some of the rocks under the light and within a day algea is gone. Why is this?

 

[jonboyb]

Sounds like what ever is in Tech-M that devestates bryopsis may only be effective during photosynthesis. However, the bryopsis on my clam shell was completely shaded (very large clam) where it was at and it disappeared quick.

And I plan to run elevated for at least 3 weeks. My PWC last night was dosed up to 1650 prior to completing the water change. Threw my skimmer into a bit of a funk but it calmed down after a few minutes. The Tech-M has raised my ALK and SG considerably though (from 8 to 10, and from 1.026 to 1.0275 respectively). CA levels also seem elevated but thats cool with me:thumbs: I used to have issues maintaining 375 or so but it's running about 425 with the Tech-M treatment.