The nuclear option - total war on Neomeris Annulata

[Slick Fork]

Really? How much did you raise Mg by? Did you use a specific brand? I remember an old tank I had with bryopsis and it was only the Kent Tech M that worked so there was speculation that it wasn't the magnesium but something else Kent had in its mixture that did the trick.

How much did you raise mg by? I may use this idea on my coral/clam quarantine. As you said, a little late for the display but that's ok, half the fun is setting things up anyway.

[Magickiwi]

I wonder if it's your fish that keep propagating the outbreaks. It's not generally pallitable to fish but if they do snack on it or your inverts do and it passes through their digestive tracts without being completely digested then you've got a nice starter colony being pooped on your freshly thawed live rock.

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

I wonder if it's your fish that keep propagating the outbreaks. It's not generally pallitable to fish but if they do snack on it or your inverts do and it passes through their digestive tracts without being completely digested then you've got a nice starter colony being pooped on your freshly thawed live rock.

I hadn't thought about that. It's very possible that that's how it's been happening.

I'm pretty optimistic that after this round I'll have annihilated it. The fish are the only ones with contaminated sand or rock with them now and at that I checked each piece that is in the quarantine tank for strands of this stuff and any that were present I just threw the whole rock out.

That said, anybody know how long it would take to go through a fish's digestive system? My largest fish is a foxface.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Slick Fork

Really? How much did you raise Mg by? Did you use a specific brand? I remember an old tank I had with bryopsis and it was only the Kent Tech M that worked so there was speculation that it wasn't the magnesium but something else Kent had in its mixture that did the trick.

How much did you raise mg by? I may use this idea on my coral/clam quarantine. As you said, a little late for the display but that's ok, half the fun is setting things up anyway.

A lot , from 700 to 1400 in one dose , wasn't intentional to kill algae but couldn't help notice it was all gone next morning.

Randy says its prob an impurity in the tech m that kills bryopsis but he also notes that a very large and sudden spike in mg seems to kill macro algaes of certain types , this was one of them

He also warns against going more than 100ppm in a single rise as besides macro algae other animals including inverts and more delicate corals can suffer.

I had no loss minus the algae so I think I was lucky , the raise was because I was getting tired of 10 ppm a day rise and going no where so I went a bit crazy and dosed a 5g bucket of chloride and sulphate.

The easiest way to tell is stick a Rick with algae in a bucket with heater and power head and nuke it with mg to see the results for yourself before going further

Worked for me and overnight too all algae was white as a ghost and melted away. It will come back though so I think I needed a repeat dose.

Remember it's not the high level but the mass jump in mg.

Bryopsis is a different story

[mark]

had to do a search on it, could look nice if you like green. Good luck getting rid of it.

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by mark

had to do a search on it, could look nice if you like green. Good luck getting rid of it.

Ha,

Yeah my tank wasn't quite that bad; but getting close.

[Slick Fork]

Easy to underestimate/forget how much work a tear down/rebuild is. RO water going back into the tank tonight!