My current 34 gallon Solana. But if I had know that peroxide was an option when I was running my larger tank I would have tried the same thing.
treating bryopsis algae with magnesium (Tech M)
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Okay...Tech M is having a negative impact on the Bryopsis but...it's killing off my Candy Cane, Frog Spawn and my Elegance has left it's rock and looks like chit.
I pulled the 4 most infected rocks, bleached them, rinsed with a high pressure hose, rinsed with RO/DI and they are now soaking in RO/DI.
The bleach did the job on the Bryopsis. As well as everything else on the rocks.
I tried the Coral Rx on a few of the frags. No noticible difference in the Bryopsis. I did the H202 spot treatment (outside of the tank) and the Bryopsis seemed phased but not nearly dead.
I'd say the bleach took care of about 90% of what was in the tank.
I need to start flushing out the Tech M with a series of water changes before it kills off the reset of my corals.
BTW, the highest my MA got, using Tech M, was 1800. I brought it up from 1150 at a rate of 75 to 100ppm, per day.
While the tank as a whole looks great, the suffering Candy Cane, dieing Elegance (Aussie), dead Frog Spawn heads and the now missing Mushrooms, looks sort of sad.
I pulled the 4 most infected rocks, bleached them, rinsed with a high pressure hose, rinsed with RO/DI and they are now soaking in RO/DI.
The bleach did the job on the Bryopsis. As well as everything else on the rocks.
I tried the Coral Rx on a few of the frags. No noticible difference in the Bryopsis. I did the H202 spot treatment (outside of the tank) and the Bryopsis seemed phased but not nearly dead.
I'd say the bleach took care of about 90% of what was in the tank.
I need to start flushing out the Tech M with a series of water changes before it kills off the reset of my corals.
BTW, the highest my MA got, using Tech M, was 1800. I brought it up from 1150 at a rate of 75 to 100ppm, per day.
While the tank as a whole looks great, the suffering Candy Cane, dieing Elegance (Aussie), dead Frog Spawn heads and the now missing Mushrooms, looks sort of sad.
I wouldn't use h202 on acros if I could help it
remove the Use a tooth brush to scrub the frag disk then if there is any growing on the coral it's self remove the affected area you can just scrape it off with a knife
you can also just cover the byro with epoxy putty if it's a small area
you don't won't to pull it out under water unless you have a siphon sure king it up wile u pull it up as it will regrow from a strand that gits lose in the tank
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I dealt with the worst outbreak of it ever. I battled it for two months while my tank looked like a swamp. The only thing that eventually cured it were Lettuce Nudibranchs. I trimmed it short and they handled the rest. Unfortunately they eventually died off when there was no more bryopsis to consume.
While taking a blow torch to it appeals to my frustrated side, it's not an option.
Bleaching killed off the majority of it. Picking and Tech M have taken almost all of what still remains.
The down side of the Tech M is that I've lost an Elegance, almost all of my Frog Spawn, my Acans are suffering, the beautiful Candy Cane colony (well over 75 heads) I got from Jeffery is all but dead. It's little more than a skeleton in my basement frag tank. I've no idea where the hell most of my Mushrooms have gone. Except for the Green Hairy mushroom. He's fat and happy.
Right now, my tank looks like a toxic waste dump. I had heard that my CUC was almost sure to die. So I relocated as much as I could get my hands on.
Last night I moved a fighting conch back into the main tank just to clean up the sand bed. I've stopped dosing the Tech M and have done a normal water change. The MA is just above 1600 now and I'll do another water change today or tomorrow.
All in all, this is rather depressing.
I'm far from throwing in the towel but...I hate seeing the tank looking like it has.
I suspect that within the next two weeks, it'll be back to health and looking good again. Minus a few prized corals.
Bleaching killed off the majority of it. Picking and Tech M have taken almost all of what still remains.
The down side of the Tech M is that I've lost an Elegance, almost all of my Frog Spawn, my Acans are suffering, the beautiful Candy Cane colony (well over 75 heads) I got from Jeffery is all but dead. It's little more than a skeleton in my basement frag tank. I've no idea where the hell most of my Mushrooms have gone. Except for the Green Hairy mushroom. He's fat and happy.
Right now, my tank looks like a toxic waste dump. I had heard that my CUC was almost sure to die. So I relocated as much as I could get my hands on.
Last night I moved a fighting conch back into the main tank just to clean up the sand bed. I've stopped dosing the Tech M and have done a normal water change. The MA is just above 1600 now and I'll do another water change today or tomorrow.
All in all, this is rather depressing.
I'm far from throwing in the towel but...I hate seeing the tank looking like it has.
I suspect that within the next two weeks, it'll be back to health and looking good again. Minus a few prized corals.
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Has anybody ever tried reef napalm on this stuff?? If it lives through that sell the tank and quit. But on a serious note you can spot treat in the tank IF you can get to it.
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June
I got the nitrates under control which killed the hair algae. I didn't think the another algae was bryopsis at first because my starry Blenny was eating the "leaves". Once I identified it through the new growth (looked like a fern) it only took two weeks to get under control.
Two weeks later
Today
I haven't had a flair up since. There's a small amount on a powerhead but it doesn't spread.
