Using Fluconazole To Eliminate Bryopsis And Gha
I hope to create a journal here to show a step by step method of attempting to eliminate Bryopsis and Green Hair Algae from my marine 240L tank.
I dosed 6 x 200mg capsules of Fluconazole, mixed with tank water and poured into the sump. (It doesn't exactly dissolve, but that's OK).
I only made a couple of changes to the system before dosing:
1. I turned off my skimmer - recommended for the first 3 to 4 days so not to skim the product out.
2. Removed my bag of charcoal
3. Stopped dosing NoPox
I'll try and show a daily record of how the treatment is progressing and if there are, if any, negatives to the entire system.
Below are a couple of pics of the (nervous) start and some patches of algae that will hopefully start to disappear.
The product
A small patch of GHA
A bit thicker patch
It's in and everything is still alive - now to see what happens.
To be continued . . .
I dosed 6 x 200mg capsules of Fluconazole, mixed with tank water and poured into the sump. (It doesn't exactly dissolve, but that's OK).
I only made a couple of changes to the system before dosing:
1. I turned off my skimmer - recommended for the first 3 to 4 days so not to skim the product out.
2. Removed my bag of charcoal
3. Stopped dosing NoPox
I'll try and show a daily record of how the treatment is progressing and if there are, if any, negatives to the entire system.
Below are a couple of pics of the (nervous) start and some patches of algae that will hopefully start to disappear.
The product
A small patch of GHA
A bit thicker patch
It's in and everything is still alive - now to see what happens.
To be continued . . .