Help me get rid of bryopsis. It's out of control!!!

[hiepatitis]

Anyone have a fish the eats bryopsis? This stuff is taking off in my tank. Any tips?

 

[LeviT]

I had a tiny bushel of that on my skimmer return and my blue tang ate it but it won't eat anything green that I pay for

 

[FinalPhaze987]

i had a chocolate mimic that ate it like no tomorrow....none of my others touched the stuff though. Im not sure if all of them eat it or if i just lucked out

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Dose kalkwasser and bring your pH to 8.5-8.6 and your alk to 3.8+, the bryopsis will melt.

Other people have had success using Tech M to bring Mg to 1500-1600ppm.

If you do either of those methods, make sure you don't overflow your skimmer when the bryopsis melts.

 

[Vincerama2]

OK Norm, my tank is also hair-ed out. I haven't run my kalk reactor in months, but today, I'm going to set it up again and not change anything else...let's see what happens.

V

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Cool.

If steady slow dosing to raise your alk and pH don't melt the bryopsis, you may need to spike the levels a bit.

If you spike to the point of tank wide snowstorm, your bryopsis definately will go away. But you don't need to go to that extreme.

A little abiotic precipitation is ok though, if you're feeling brave

 

[CookieJar]

I went with tuberiders' suggestion of a foxface and that guy wiped out all of mine (in a 180) in a matter of 2-3 weeks. If I can trap him, he's yours.

 

[Mr. Ugly]

I've had/have foxface and magnificent foxface. Mine would sort of pick at the bryopsis, but they never got rid of it for me.

 

[vapormd]

x2 on what Norm said about raising the Mg - take it above 1500 and you should see the bryopsis go away. Safer IME than trying to manage/control an alk swing.

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Nice thing about melting it and skimming wet, is that you're exporting the bound nutrients pretty quickly.

 

[Thales]

[quote author=vapormd link=topic=4310.msg52256#msg52256 date=1218683144]
x2 on what Norm said about raising the Mg - take it above 1500 and you should see the bryopsis go away. Safer IME than trying to manage/control an alk swing.
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It seems you have to dose with Kent's Tech M. Other Mg seem not to work. The theory is its the sulphate.
I did Tech M with little downside.

 

[Gomer]

If it is the sulfates, then dose Epsom Salts for Mg

 

[Thales]

[quote author=Gomer link=topic=4310.msg52301#msg52301 date=1218723728]
If it is the sulfates, then dose Epsom Salts for Mg
[/quote][quote author=Gomer link=topic=4310.msg52301#msg52301 date=1218723728]
If it is the sulfates, then dose Epsom Salts for Mg
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No way to test for sulphates and we have no idea what level they would need to be at and we don't really know if it is sulphate.

 

[sfsuphysics]

[quote author=Thales link=topic=4310.msg52297#msg52297 date=1218718402]
[quote author=vapormd link=topic=4310.msg52256#msg52256 date=1218683144]
x2 on what Norm said about raising the Mg - take it above 1500 and you should see the bryopsis go away. Safer IME than trying to manage/control an alk swing.
[/quote]

It seems you have to dose with Kent's Tech M. Other Mg seem not to work. The theory is its the sulphate.
I did Tech M with little downside.
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*blows whistle* FOUL! Posting while on vacation, 15 yard penalty! Unless you're back, then welcome back

I love the foxface, had one that would eat anything green (except corals) any sort of algae except what grows right next to the surface would be decimated, I mean you could literally stick in a nasty algae covered rock into the tank and within a few days the rock would be clean to the surface. Another one I had, meh don't think he cared to live up to the hype. So biological means are usually hit or miss.