Bryopsis

I feel your pain...I'm still fighting a no ending war with it, and it's still winning...good luck. A member of mt lfs have me some advice to just let it be and run its course, until it runs out of nutrients. He said he didn't do water changes on his tank for awhile, because that seem to help fuel it a lil. Although yet doesn't sounds like a bad idea, but I can't do it because I have a few sps corals.

It's funny how we throw so many things at it without knowing exactly what is affecting it. You might be absolutely right about it just petering out eventually on its own,,but probably most people swear by whatever they did right before that happened. The problem is the other pieces in the tank for sure. On my next tank I'm going to give it a loooong time to work out these issues before adding anything but rock.

I also can't spot treat with the kent M, but I'll continue to dose and hope I believe it is helping. :ridinghorse:
 
i have a lettuce slug (Elysia crispata I think)and now that I've weakened the algae with kent M, he seems to be destroying it. I've almost got this stuff beat, but I'll never be able to say exactly what it was that did it.
 
I am realizing that my tank is completely addicted to Kent Tech M. I have been fighting just one or two tufts that have stuck around since I started dosing. I have been trying to keep mag around 1400+. I ran out about 4 days ago and haven't been able to pick any up. In that time the bryopsis has started coming back in force. It looks very weak and spindly still, but I can tell it is building its attack. I guess I'm still overfeeding and I stopped running GFO when the kent M started to work so well but i certainly wasn't expecting this. I'm definitely going to try to get the Kent M today, but I am also thinking of taking a more drastic step. Would it make sense for me to remove my fuge macro and then bomb the tank with algaeX or something and then do a huge stir-up and WC (or several)? Has anyone out there truly eradicated bryopsis, or has it always just been staved once infected. I think I can definitely regain control at this point, but this stuff if a party pooper.
 
2 updates:
1. Talking to the guy at Fish Planet made me realize an important point; He suggested that running macro in the media chamber of the nanos (which I do) is probably doing more damage than good. I guess there is information that indicates a certain minimum size for a refugium to be in any way effective and the fist sized piece that goes in the media chamber isn't nearly enough. In fact, it may just be a "bad nutrient" factory. So, I am considering ditching the fuge and light in the media chamber and just running gfo in its place.

2. If all else fails I have plenty of tech M to make this bryopsis my b!+ch (64oz bottle available at aquacave ((delivered in less than 24h)))
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I've read of many people ditching fuges all together but turning the fuge into its own DSB. I've seen some where they have a 30 gallon tank utilized as a DSB filled to the top.
 
I've read of many people ditching fuges all together but turning the fuge into its own DSB. I've seen some where they have a 30 gallon tank utilized as a DSB filled to the top.

interesting point, but there wouldn't be any way to do that in the confines of the AIO nano. On my frag set-up I do have a "mineral fuge" which is just fiji mud sand and a little rock (need more). That system also has a fuge full of macro, but the DT has had no algae whatsoever.

I think in the nano the macro is nothing more than a physical filter and pod breeding area. I may do some LR rubble back there as well as the GFO, but I was actually glad to hear I could be better off without the macro since it is a pain to keep it in check.
 
Kent Tech M has definitely worked for me in the past for bryopsis, but I kept my Mag much higher, between 1600-1700.

I'm glad you said that because I'm going to start pushing it a little higher. I think it might fully kill it if I do.

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