tom obrecht
Active member
I have a larger reef that was started ~8 months ago with dry rock. Have been through the cycle stage and have been wanting to add sps. Have tried a number of pieces throughout the last month or 2 with no luck. Lps, a few pieces of ricordia and shrooms seem to be good. Have a decent fish load throughout the 8 month process and the fish are good. Since I'm 8 months in I'm figuring the sps issue is maturity of the system. So I've been adding bacteria's one a regular basis of different brand names. Been feeding fish daily but only once a day and in limited amounts. Within the last week or so cyano has been showing its face. I'm wondering if dosing bacteria on a regular basis could cause a cyano issue? Could bacteria from different brands mixed together over time cause issues?