3 day tank blackout questions.

[LiquidCache]

So i'm on day two, soon to be day three of my blackout. I had a bit of a cyano problem in my sand bed, and truth be told it was my fault. Live and learn.

So I draped the tank, and am feeding normally, but I had two questions to anyone who's done it before.

Anemones. I have two BTAs, one large, one very small that I just picked up at coral con. Should I directly feed them during this blackout since there's no light?

Also, when the blackout is over, should I plan on vacuuming the sand bed immediately after??

 

[toddmau5]

I wouldn't blame yourself. I can pretty much mark it on my calendar when its going to happen. As the season changes and the sun picks a different window to come through I get the cyano. 3 day black out does the trick every time. There is a really good article on reef central about cyano and black outs. Keep feeding your fish, I would recommend spot feeding the anemones if they will eat.

 

[toddmau5]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2279039

Cyanobacteria: how to fix it.

 

[Straight_Chaos]

Three days isn't a need for feeding fish nor nems. The three day black out works well. I feel don't feed, don't do anything but clean skimmer. Tank will be ok for 3 days. I've done it a few times through out the years.

Most recent was about 6 months ago I put a frag tank inline with my Display. The rock that came with tank were leaching badly and hair in just the frag tank.

4 days no lights, no food, no problems. I had a couple Colorado sunburst Btas and a full assortment of frags and one dragonette .

I found. 3 days gets 90% but with peeking and such 4 days get 95+ %.

My frag tank was bare bottom and I pulled a lot of nasty loose stuff up it wouldn't hurt to do a water change and even give a quick rock scrub before hand.

Ty