Fluconazole Question

[scwilcox8]

Hello everyone,

I know fluconazole will work for bryopsis and green hair algae. But, will it work for red hair or red turf algae? I have been manually battling red algae for a few months and it's just not going away. To be clear, it's not the cotton candy stuff. It looks stringy red turf algae.

I have a 29 Biocube. I run chemipure elite, purigen, phosgaurd. Water changes every week for the past 2 months, before I was doing every other week (~20%).

Thanks!

 

[resortez]

Hey. Sounds like you might have something trapping excess nutrients & not releasing them or being stored somewhere where you haven’t attacked yet. Would be nice to get water parameters if possible. Gravity, NO3, PO4, PH, etc & your light cycle, how old are the lamps if you are still running fluorescents.

 

[reefes pieces]

Hi do you have a pic of the algae?

 

[Titanwerx]

I just used this on my 30g and it worked amazingly well on my algae! Algae Was getting bad, covering everything and was completely gone in about 2weeks. I also have what looks like red turf algae but that seems unaffected by the Fluc.


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[scwilcox8]

I just used this on my 30g and it worked amazingly well on my algae! Algae Was getting bad, covering everything and was completely gone in about 2weeks. I also have what looks like red turf algae but that seems unaffected by the Fluc.


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Ah ok, so it doesn't work on the red stuff.

 

[scwilcox8]

Hi do you have a pic of the algae?

I don't have a pic from my tank, but it looks like this:

 

[reefes pieces]

I don't think that's bryopsis unfortunately. I'd say give the fluconazole a shot as it supposedly doesn't have negative affects on corals. Have you tried Vibrant?

 

[scwilcox8]

I started dosing vibrant two weeks ago. Not much difference so far. The only thing I haven't tried yet is a 3 day blackout...but I'd like to avoid that if possible.