Kent tech m treatment (1 Viewer)

[Fasttalon94]

I have started the treatment for bryopsis and I noticed after day 1 of adding the mag I have yellow dust all over the rocks. It looks like a diatom bloom but its not, upon hitting it with a turkey baster it comes right off. I am and have been running GFO for a while now and was kind of thinking the addition of the mag has loosened up some if the binding algae that has collected in the reactor??? The bryopsis is dying very fast and is turning colors similar to the color of GFO.

Anyone have this experience?

My mag with Red Sea coral pro salt was only 1200 when I started the experiment.

 

[Fasttalon94]

Seems to be a common theme for me to reply to my own threads with solutions but I thought I'd post up in case any one else has a similar experience.

I had been running GFO for a few months now, hair algae was pretty much non existent and I decided to dose the tank with tech m to kill the bryopsis. I had done an aggressive flatworm exit treatment the day prior and changed out about 30% of the water after the flatworm treatment so I figured now would be a good time to hit it with more chemicals. I had read some do not change the water for the entire 30 day duration of the tech m treatment so that the mag levels stay elevated and consistent.

The day after adding the 1st dose (40B with sump so dosing 210ml a day) the entire tank was orange. The cause had been that the initial addition of mag was enough that it flash killed the bryopsis in the tank and had loosened up my GFO I'm the reactor to a point where the flow had increased substantially.

I have since added a micron filter and rinsed the GFO and the water is fine now. I'm no chemist but perhaps the mag also ate away at the GFO some, it seems like I had lost about half of it since before the addition of the magnesium. Also notable that when adding the mag the pumps sound funny for a while and the slimmer doesn't skim for about an hour or more.

 

[JtotheB]

I did the Tech M treatment for bryopis and it worked for me. For my bc29 I just shook and poured straight from the bottle a double or triple dose on back every day. Over a couple weeks it faded to clear and then kinda just disappeared. Never did a water change so not lose Mag levels. Worked well for me and no side effects were noticed. Was a bad case too.

Anyways . . . Did you have a heart attack when you saw your tank was orange?

 

[BeerNut]

Tech M worked great for me for bryopsis also. Never had any odd effects.

 

[Fasttalon94]

Yeah when I saw that my tank was orange and cloudy I thought oh hell, I'm in trouble here. But I didn't panic, I just let things play out. The strange thing was how cloudy the tank was until I washed out the GFO. I would have thought that after 3 days the GFO canister would have purged itself of all the fine particles but there sure was a lot in there. The other thing I think could have happened was that the extra Mag cleared up some Bryopsis that was by the impeller, so when that died it ramped up the flow. Either way, it's under control now.