ksanfranfan
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I will post this in the thread that you've started as well. Hopefully more people will post their observations as well. I think it's important as well to learn as much as possible about this treatment as we go further too.
Bryopsis Cure: My Battle With Bryopsis Using Fluconazole
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NCreefguy
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I'm going to see how it looks after a couple more days. I don't want my nitrates getting too much higher so I'm still planning on a WC at the 2 week mark.
Rick.45cal
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@NCreefguy do you think your corals look better?
Mine definitely haven't slowed down growing, my alkalinity consumption has increased during this process and everything accross the board looks much happier and more vibrant in color. It's amazing how much an algae like bryopsis can affect the corals. I'm interested to see when I turn AWC back on how much of a growth explosion I am gonna get. Kind of excited
Mine definitely haven't slowed down growing, my alkalinity consumption has increased during this process and everything accross the board looks much happier and more vibrant in color. It's amazing how much an algae like bryopsis can affect the corals. I'm interested to see when I turn AWC back on how much of a growth explosion I am gonna get. Kind of excited
Rick.45cal
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My NO3 never dropped below 2.5ppm during the vibrant treatment (because I maintained them there). But my corals all started to pale anyway. I suspect that it's another elemental deficiency that is also being caused by using vibrant for many months in their 2x weekly dosing scheme. It was hard on my corals. After I started the continuous waterchange everything brightened up and started growing like mad. I dosed my last dose of Vibrant the day before my fluconazole dose went in (I am discontinuing dosing Vibrant). So when I shut off the AWC for this treatment, I was kind of dreading watching the corals gradually get duller, or slow down in growth. That hasn't happened though! I actually think they look happier now! The increase in alkalinity consumption also seems to suggest that.
It's a nice feeling to finally look at your tank and have to really look to find something wrong
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NCreefguy
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@NCreefguy do you think your corals look better?
Mine definitely haven't slowed down growing, my alkalinity consumption has increased during this process and everything accross the board looks much happier and more vibrant in color. It's amazing how much an algae like bryopsis can affect the corals. I'm interested to see when I turn AWC back on how much of a growth explosion I am gonna get. Kind of excited
Not yet. My corals are still trying to recover from all the brown slime and red cyano that they been covered with for the past two months. That's another reason I'm eager to get some WCs going again and try to get rid of this mess.
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It's a nice feeling to finally look at your tank and have to really look to find something wrong
Hang on I'll send you some pics of my tank so you won't have to strain yourself trying to find something wrong.
I've got some nice brown stringy things with bubbles on the end...rust looking rocks and sand....and some nice red/lavender blankets covering what ever is left.
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ChrisQ0904
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Just finished reading this entire thread and have decided to go ahead and place an order myself. I do not have a bad outbreak like others have posted but I have noticed it growing in a few spots and was going to pull out the frags and treat with hydrogen peroxide but after reading this I change my mind. I have only seen one other person post a picture with an anemone in their tank but have not seen any posts after that initial one, with that said has anyone tried this with an anemone in their tank? I have a prized blue anemone that I don't want to stress or cause any harm to.
MartyF
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Nems are doing great!
ChrisQ0904
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Awesome, thank you both. My mind is now at ease and can dose (hopefully next week) with out much worry.
BF90GMixedReef
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I've fighting a bout of green hair algae for a couple months now. My nitrates are at 0 and phosphate is at .08. Both checked with Red Sea test kits. I started using Vibrant as well as added a GFO reactor about 2 month ago. So far, nothing has worked in getting it under control. Where can I order the fluconazole? At this point, I'm willing to try anything.
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As far as I know flucon ONLY effects Bryopsis and has no effect on any other algae including GHA
mta_morrow
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I asked this question a few posts back. There may be hope for gha with this.
Yep every single patch of GHA that I have looks like this...
Have you tried removing any of the gha? I've been treating my gha in my 45 gallon with Vibrant and I am finding that the gha comes off much easier now with the Vibrant treatment.
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No I haven't touched anything while running this treatment. I wanted to see what the meds were going to do by itself. During my WC in a couple of days,I'll try to remove it and see if it releases easily or not.
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