Temp reduction= no more bryopsis?

I've had Bryopsis for about 6 months now and I have tried nearly everything to get rid of it. Over Christmas, we had a big snow in Pennsylvania and my tank heater couldn't handle it. The temp went down to 74-75 and the corals weren't happy. One suffered from necrosis. I've noticed that all of my bryopsis is gone though? I had a lot, and it disappeared in a week. I didn't do anything else to the tank, not even a water change... Is this a new cure for bryopsis??

 

Believe it or not, I had exact same thing happen to me. My house heater died and I woke up to 58 degrees in house. On top of that my heater was reading lo-flow which I take it turns it off. Long story short my tank was at 74 degrees. Freaked the hell out of me.

I have almost no bryopsis left now, just a lil hair algae here and there. I been battling bryopsis for 6 month.

Everyone faired well in my tank, only bryopsis seemed to be affected by few hours at 74. Lucky.

I did not put 2 and 2 together until I read your post.

 

If some more people report this.. I think we might have found an easier, free way to kill bryopsis!!!!!

 

My tank temps are that low..... byropsis lives in there quite well.

 

Maybe it's a suddent change and not target temp specifically that did it. Sure would be a heck of conincidence if one had nothing to do with the other.

 

True, maybe it is a sudden change. I haven't done anything else though. Thank god it happened though, I was ready to sell off my tank and go back to a freshy lol.

 

Individuals that had infestations of Red Bugs or Acropora eating flatworms have reported that a secondary effect of a sudden drop in temp either by power outage or moving corals from one location to another exposing the corals to a sudden drop in temp have witnessed the complete eradication of those post.

Of course this is only anecdotal evidence, with no real scientific research to prove one way or another.

You can treat Bryopsis effectively though by other means: Lettuce Nudibranchs or Kent Tech Marine Magnesium.

 

Well.... sometimes lol. Tech M worked once for me. The best thing I've done is trained my Tangs to eat nuisance algae. I got them eating everything now, from bubble, to sawblade calurpa which is toxic, and even what I think is bryopsis, though a far more tame species.

 

This has nothing to do with your post but I love your name Need more cowbell - too funny

 

Oh alright, thanks for sharing that, I didn't know. And yes, I tried kent marine mag spikes. Unfortunately It didn't work longterm. Lettuce nudibranches do eat it , but slowly from what I've heard. To add, I went to the extreme with this algae and removed all fish, sand in the display, and did many frequent water changes. It slowed, but still grew.