Bryopsis possible solution

[Art13]

package was delayed a day, so won't be starting it until tonight.

[timnem70]

Light helps algae grow. Nutrients and usually shitty husbandry causes the outbreak to start.

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[peiloy3196]

Originally Posted by timnem70

Light helps algae grow. Nutrients and usually shitty husbandry causes the outbreak to start.

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I am sorry to tell you that this is not how Bryropsis works. It will survive blackouts and thrives at low nutrient levels. It sometimes may seem beaten and lay dormant for months before coming back. I have been doing this for a long time and know my way around algae issues. I have impeccable husbandry and still suffered through Bryopsis. My nutrients were so low trying to starve it out that I was starving SPS colonies but yet the bryopsis was going like a beast. So respectfully before you call out fellow reefers husbandry practices please understand what Bryopsis is in the first place, because I would never wish it on my worst enemy.


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[Art13]

Originally Posted by timnem70

Light helps algae grow. Nutrients and usually shitty husbandry causes the outbreak to start.

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I'm not sure you've ever dealt with bryopsis before. I have an oversized skimmer, high capacity gfo changed weekly, zero phos or nitrates, twice a week i pull out the bryopsis and blow off the rocks and replace the water with freshly made stuff. I can't even get my chaeto to grow anymore, the bubble algae that used to be in there is completely gone, there is no other algae in my tank. This stuff does not care if you run a ULNS system, i would take just about any other algae problem over this as most others are an easy fix with correcting nutrients.

[scuzy]

Bryopsis caused me to tear down my last tank. It was that bad.


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[Art13]

I have 4 ati blue plus, 1 coral plus, and one purple plus, would it be better to leave these off or can i run them with the meds?

[peiloy3196]

Originally Posted by Art13

I have 4 ati blue plus, 1 coral plus, and one purple plus, would it be better to leave these off or can i run them with the meds?

If that's your only light source I would run it. I am not sure if any of those bulbs have the UV wavelength in them though. I read that UV breaks down the medication on another forum that I had to translate, but I am not sure if it does or does not.


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[Art13]

going by ati's site, there is a very small blip under the 400nm wavelength, judging from the amount of light in the other spectrums, i'm guessing this would be too minor to even make a difference in uv, but i'll leave them off for a day to be sure. i'm leaving off my actinic bulbs as they do have a higher amount of uv.

[Art13]

First dose was put in an hour or so ago, no effects on anything in the tank including the nems at this time, though it's a bit soon to say either way. I dosed 3000mg into roughly 150 of water.

[Gorgok]

Originally Posted by Art13

I have 4 ati blue plus, 1 coral plus, and one purple plus, would it be better to leave these off or can i run them with the meds?

I had my coral, 2 blue and purple pluses off just the first day. I don't really think much true UV comes through the glass of the tube (glass blocks UV pretty good).

You probably won't see much effect for a few days still. Any chance you got some spot to take comparison photos of? I would be interesting to see another example to see if it follows the same cycle.

[Art13]

This is my current tank, pick a spot lol, I managed to get some cyano with the last treatment I tried.

[peiloy3196]

That's what my own looked like, except it was in the sand too!


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[outssider]

Originally Posted by Art13

I'm not sure you've ever dealt with bryopsis before. I have an oversized skimmer, high capacity gfo changed weekly, zero phos or nitrates, twice a week i pull out the bryopsis and blow off the rocks and replace the water with freshly made stuff. I can't even get my chaeto to grow anymore, the bubble algae that used to be in there is completely gone, there is no other algae in my tank. This stuff does not care if you run a ULNS system, i would take just about any other algae problem over this as most others are an easy fix with correcting nutrients.

I had bryopsis for a year and tried everything. My nutrient levels (when tested) showed 0 or very close to it even before the bryopsis started. I tried raising mag with tech M and algae fix marine nothing helped at all. I would pull bryopsis out and it would grow back within a couple weeks. I finally completely beat it by raising my carbon dosing (vodka) and few drops of brightwell's microbacter7 twice a day. I raised the vodka dose to the point where zoanthid coral retreated and the heads got smaller. the glass could go 10 days without needing to be cleaned and when cleaned the film was not green but white (bacteria not algae). I literally starved the crap out of the tank! It took about 2 months of this and it slowly died off. surprisingly, the sps were not effected too much (a bit pale but happy and growing). my advice to anyone who wants to beat bryopsis is to starve the crap out of it and be persistent and patient. I have always run gfo and carbon but it's the carbon dosing that's the kiss of death.

[f3honda4me]

Art please post daily updates on treatment progress!

[Art13]

I'll try and get one tomorrow, if not the first one won't be until Tuesday.

[djbon]

12th day and bryopsis is nowhere to be seen. Hopefully it wont come back ☺

[Art13]

24 hours, no change yet

[peiloy3196]

Originally Posted by Art13

24 hours, no change yet

Day 5 was when the magic started happening for me.


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[Art13]

Yup, I'm not expecting anything for a few days but a day by day on the tank seemed like a good idea. Without my skimmer and gfo running my tanks going to get pretty dirty, lol.

[Gorgok]

On a negative note, looks like your cyano spread a bunch in just a day. I don't expect this to have any impact on it, but not sure what you could do about it in the meantime so it doesnt get too crazy... Maybe vacuum through a sock right back into the tank (sump)? Don't know if i would want to mix chemiclean with the flucon just because of extra stress to the livestock.

[FullBoreReefer]

Originally Posted by Gorgok

On a negative note, looks like your cyano spread a bunch in just a day. I don't expect this to have any impact on it, but not sure what you could do about it in the meantime so it doesnt get too crazy... Maybe vacuum through a sock right back into the tank (sump)? Don't know if i would want to mix chemiclean with the flucon just because of extra stress to the livestock.

By the looks of the powerhead placement, maybe the cyano is a flow issue. Doesn't look like anything is pointing downward, maybe I'm missing something.

[Art13]

Right now the peer heads make a nice little undertow with how they are, I'm still messing with them a bit as well, but I know why the cyano is there, from the last treatment I tried in the tank. If that's all I have to fix after this I will be a happy man, cyano is an easy fix, I can just blow off the coral for now.

[atraperegrinus]

I dosed tonight, after pulling my scrubber, and my reactor media.

I snapped some pics, after a few days here I will throw up some progress pics.

my outbreak isnt nearly as bad as everyone elses here, but i figured I would hammer at it before it got bad.

thanks guys, really hoping this works!

[tkeracer619]

Trying out a Macro Lens I got for Christmas. This is a single little bunch of bryopsis (I think) on the side of my QT so I should be able to take a pic of it through out the treatment. I have no idea what I'm doing with the lens but hopefully I get better through the process. The meds should get here tomorrow and I'll dose around 5:30.

[Jp_esp]

Schedule to get mine in today, are you guys dosing all mg at once?