Bryopsis first time

[freemandnj973]

So in the 9 years of reefing this is the first time I'm dealing with bryopsis. I've been using tech m for a week now and not seeing any improvement even after scrubbing down my rock with peroxide. All parameters are on point except elevated mag. It's on my frag plugs and frags of ORA birdnest, bonsai valida and monti and don't know how to deal with them. Any idea if Kent changed tech m and/or should I switch to continuum mag or combine peroxide with treatment? Also, how do I take care of the bryopsis on the sps frags?

[freemandnj973]

Anyone

[Tamberav]

I have dipped the plug of birdsnest in peroxide to kill hitchiker algae on the plug, the bottom of the SPS bleached a little but it recovered fine. JUST the frag plug.

 

You could also just frag the SPS off.

 

 

http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/322331-kent-tech-m-bryopsis-treatment/

[freemandnj973]

Issue I'm having is it's starting to grow on the frag itself. I found the source of nutrients- dead striped turbo under my rock so thats been taken care of with removal and 75% water change and corrected magnesium. Would i be able to take a toothbrush to the sps without damaging it?

[Tamberav]

Issue I'm having is it's starting to grow on the frag itself. I found the source of nutrients- dead striped turbo under my rock so thats been taken care of with removal and 75% water change and corrected magnesium. Would i be able to take a toothbrush to the sps without damaging it?

 

I would think a toothbrush would damage the SPS flesh, I would remove the feathers with tweezers. Bryopsis doesn't seem to need much for nutrients to grow out of control.

[freemandnj973]

I took out all the coral brushed the zoanthids clean and did a peroxide dip on them and what a big difference. I also brushed around the base of the sps, plugs and dipped up to the base of them and so far so good. Today I'm going to vacuum as much out of the sand without removing it. Zoanthids look a million times better after the peroxide dip more colorful and wide open.

[blizzardscout2]

Brushing always makes a significance difference for me, even without dipping the rock or frags. I am glad it is helping.

[freemandnj973]

So far after I scrubbed the rock and plugs whatever algae is left isn't growing just holding on but also slowly turning white. Hopefully that combined with peroxide dips and elevated magnesium will get rid of this crap...all because of a dead turbo snail. I've been reefing for 9 years and never had an issue with snail deaths at all but every since I tried these chinese striped "turbos" since no one seems to have mexican turbos in stock I've had nothing but issues. Damn things can't clean algae all they want to do is eat fish food and sleep.

Oh and die under rocks lol

[freemandnj973]

So this was the first scrub down of tank

 

 

And 2nd scrubbing since tech m isnt working

 

[JavaJacketOC]

Don't scrub the rock.

 

Your tank is small, take out the rock with the bryopsis on it and use 100% hydrogen peroxide on the affected area. Use a saturated cotton ball and just keep dabbing it on for about 30 seconds, replenish the peroxied on the cotton ball often. You really want to saturate the bryopsis with the hydrogen peroxide.Try and rest the rock in a way that any excess peroxide falls off the rock not into it or around anything else, uou don't want to get it on your corals.

 

After you do that you can squeeze the extra from the cotton ball into the area of the rock where it's rooted. Let it sit outside of the tank for about 3 min. Once that time has passed rise the affected area off with RODI water or tank water a couple times, I usually use a turkey baster. Just quirt the area of the rock where you treated and let it fall off the rock. It should disintegrate within a few days. Your CUC will start to eat it the second day usually,

[freemandnj973]

Just put an order in at Reef Cleaners new snails should be here next week. Hopefully they can help with this crap its driving me nuts. All the algae is browned out and test kits show zero as usual...time to get new ones.

[freemandnj973]

So algae growth has slowed down almost all of it is turning grey and I'm able to blow some of it off with a baster. I've been manually removing it but still there's some new growth but slow. Test kits will be here tomorrow so hopefully I can get some accurate readings for phosphate and nitrate.

[freemandnj973]

Test kits came in today and my source water is 1ppm phosphate and 40-60ppm nitrate. Time to switch water supply since I don't have access to rodi just gonna have to do distilled which I always have good luck with.

[freemandnj973]

So phosphate in nano is 0.05 with seachem test and nitrate is I believe 80ppm with api. Can anyone verify it cause my eyesight is off due to medication.

 

[freemandnj973]

Anyone?

[metrokat]

Tech M may have a new formulation which has changed and is being reported by hobbyists as not working on bryopsis, similar to your observation. You can try Brightwell Magnesion or Continuum Reef Basis Magnesium. They are the same original formula as Kent Tech M and made by Jack Kent himself.

[freemandnj973]

That's what I'm going to do once I get the nitrates under control with water changes. I didn't realize how crappy the well water is during the summer. During winter the test kits read zero for nitrate and phosphate I didn't think there would be that big of a jump.

[freemandnj973]

Well did a 3 gallon water change with distilled and knocked nitrates down to 5-10ppm and phosphates undetectable so time to starve this crap out. Also got the 5 gallon clean up crew from Reefcleaners about 15-18 snails so hopefully I can get things visible again within the next few weeks and start a new tank thread because right now this tabk looks like I'm growing a bunch of green treasure troll heads all over.

[freemandnj973]

Figured out my nitrate problem after analyzing every aspect of my tank i realized i have WAY too many marinepure spheres in my ac50 (about 11-12). Figured this out after i did the water change this week and nitrates shit back up to 40ppm after 3 days. So the marinepure coming out tonight and gonna track nitrates after another water change tomorrow. I'll just cut some in half and use as zoa frag mounts lol

[brandon429]

i was under the impression marine pure were for denitrifying bacteria that lower nitrate? maybe im thinking of another name brand something

[freemandnj973]

I have the marine pure 1.5" spheres which is more for the nitrification. Ive been running them for over 3 years on every tank I've had without nitrate issues until now. I run 1 sphere per gallon of water after experimenting with turtle tanks and how much bio load they can handle. But, I forgot that all of my reef tanks had caulerpa in them for nutrient control so never had detectable nitrate/phosphate. This is my first true nano(4 total gallons) in 6 years and tank without macro algae because I want sps without the hassle of macro in a small tank.

 

Since removing the marinepure spheres and changing to aquaforest reef salt from IORC this week my tanks PISSED!!!!!! But nitrate has stayed at 5 and phosphate 0.03 since monday so finally got nutrients down now time to get this algae under control so I can start a tank thread with decent pictures lol.

Now to see if I can use crushed marinepure spheres as media for an ulns system