So after seeing many people post on other forums about getting bryopsis and struggling to stop it. I reached out to a friend also battling bryopsis to see if we can stop it. This was over a month ago. This is from the start till now of what we have done. I?wanted to try different actions to see if we can stop it. There has to be some way to stop it, I'm tired of people losing money on this algae.Base of line of the test.?Tank has several frags covered along with rock and sand.?The first action we checked all levels.cal 460alk 9.5ph 8.0mag 1050no4 .5 Red Sea?po4 .15 Hanna checkerFirst week we?added no3/po4 to get phosphate and nitrates lower. Cut feeding back to once ever 2 days. Also ordered Kent tech M and started dosing to rasie mag over 1700/1800. We raised mag 100 ppm over 7 days getting it to 1700ppm with in the first week. Corals all seemed fine bryopsis was still spreading. Testing N04 and P04 at the end of the week n0 .25 maybe less color wasnt easy to see and p04 was .05.?Second week still dosing no/po week N04 .00 and P04 .03. Mag 1800ppm corals all seem to be happy. Bryopsis shows little to no change. After reading tons of forums and articles it seems Kent has changed Tech M and it hasn't been affective for a while now. Started dipping Zoas in 10ml to 50 ml of peroxide, we won't dip sps or chalices read it will do more harm.?Third week still dosing no/po week N04 .00 and P04 .03. Mag 1800ppm corals all seem to be happy. Bryopsis is gone on most zoa's that were dipped, ?Manual removal has put a dent in the growth. Not sure if high mag is also helping.?Fourth week still dosing no/po week N04 .00 and P04 .03. Mag 1800ppm corals all seem to be happy. Bryopsis is gone on most zoa's that were dipped, starting to see growth back on rocks and sand. Still ?searching came across a product by underwater creations called vibrant. So we ordered to give it shot. He is at the point of wanting to shut the tank down. It's getting frustrating. Also came across a some top crown snails that are said to possibly eat the bryopsis, we want to try to use vibrant at this point to see if it does work for us.?Fifth week (current time line) Vibrant came in the mail and we dosed per their instruction for tackling bryopsis. Per their instructions 2x dose a week for battling bryopsis. First dose is in the tank, I will keep updating any progress. I also dosed the stuff to my tank (it says it will prevent the glass from getting algae). So I will track the process of dosing and see what happens.?I've attached a picture of a zoa frag, chalice, and candy cane covered in bryopsis that we didn't dip to see if any changes occur.?
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