Cyanobacteria: how to fix it.

[Allentown]

I didn't go with sand for just this reason. I do have a dry side on one end and one of my future tricks to fight biolad will be to drop a 2nd 10 gallon tank in there with a dsb, some 6500k lighting and macro and run it on a bridge loop to my sump. The idea here being I can add or remove such a set up at will without even touching my main sump.

 

[tonyda1st]

Has anyone had any luck with anything other than the lights out? About 3 months ago i had a case of cyno bacteria and bought a liquid recommended by some idiot at the store and it worked for the cyno bacteia but it also bleached out all my hard corals about 700 dollars worth. Also killed my mushrooms had about 150 mushrooms have about 20 left

 

[Sonicboom]

So it's been 3 days since i blew the red algae off my rocks with a turkey baster to start with a "clean slate", So far none of the rocks have any noticeable cyano on them, there was a tiny patch on the sand yesterday but it is not there today or is too faint to notice. Here are a few things i changed;

1. Stop the auto feeder to eliminate flake feeding at noon. now only feeding morning and night.
2. replaced DI resin now producing 0 PPM water for top-off.
3. added bag of GAC
4. replaced GFO
5. switched dosing Reef Energy daily to twice a week
6. trimmed chaeto and ran lights for 24 hours, then switched back to reverse daylight.
7. If i can't see through skimmer neck it get's cleaned.

 

[SantaMonica]

1. Stop the auto feeder to eliminate flake feeding at noon. now only feeding morning and night.
2. replaced DI resin now producing 0 PPM water for top-off.
3. added bag of GAC
4. replaced GFO
5. switched dosing Reef Energy daily to twice a week
6. trimmed chaeto and ran lights for 24 hours, then switched back to reverse daylight.
7. If i can't see through skimmer neck it get's cleaned.

These of course are just increasing your export, in relation to your import. That's all filtration really is

 

[Sonicboom]

yup, and step 1 and 2 decreased most of my import.

 

[maymond]

So I have a little outbreak on my sandbed in the same exact spots on each side of my tank. I believe its from lack of flow. Also I had a ph spike. The 3 day lights out method. How do the coral act to it? will they be ok?

 

[Sonicboom]

Corals use light to grow. No lights, no growth. I am seeing small patches as well but it seems like red dust. As if it is struggling to grow. I am experimenting and reduced my red and green output from my LET'S from 35% to 15%.

 

[Oiva]

Not sure if this has been suggested, but this worked for me, two times.

I have been unfortunate to have cyano in two of my tanks. RSM 130 and now my 140 Gallon. I used to siphon it out but at one point it got way out of hand. It covered almost every rock in my tank, only spots that were clean had hair algae or corals. Everything els was covered.

My water quality was spot on except my Phosphate. I threw in some Seachem Phosguard in my reactor, and after a couple of day's it was gone. I did the same thing on my RSM but i never taught about it before i did it on my 140g tank. I had a lot of algae in my RSM so i used the phosguard to get the phosphate down.

 

[rejected]

Pardon the poor picture is this cyano ? or red turf.ive been battling gha and am getting a grip on it then this shows up, trials and tribulations of a noob

Did you resolve your issue? If so, what worked for you? Mine looks identical.

 

[immokalee98]

I just got rid of it in my tank. I used the chemiclean. I have a 180 and followed the instructions. It was all cleared up in about a week. I haven't had any issues since.

 

[BassandReef]

Chemi clean. It works!

 

[living_waters]

black out didint work

black out didint work

So I did the blackout with newspaper and everything it barely did anything is there any other purple algea the looks like cyano cause the one in my tank is strange its covering all my rock with a light coat making the rock look dirty week later its coming back and with a vengeance I have zero phosphate from last time a checked I really want this stuff gone can you guys please give me some advice for a gfo like what they do and what brands you recommend also I run chemipure elite carbon is this releated to the outbreak also the cyano started in my fuge and traveled up to my display does this mean time to change fuge bulb the bulb has only been there say 4 months tops??

 

[SantaMonica]

How much are you feeding each day?

What are your current exports?

 

[living_waters]

i feed any where from once to 3 time a day depending how busy i am my export is 5g water changes a nano aqua c remora skimmer and macro trimming

 

[living_waters]

5gs a week by the way

 

[living_waters]

will a algae scruber work for cyano?

 

[SantaMonica]

i feed any where from once to 3 time a day

Yes but how much?

Your macro trimming is the only real export you have. The 5g water change is only a 15% reduction once a week, which is almost none. and the skimmer does not remove any urea, ammonia, nitrate or phosphate at all.

So, how much macro are you trimming?

 

[Sonicboom]

Here is my chaeto export for the month or so, a 5 gallon bucket up to about the 4 gallon mark. Took a handful of that and threw it in my qt to seed it with copepods. I also changed my feeding from flake which went everywhere to pellets soaked in also bit of ro/Di and selcon.

 

[SantaMonica]

That is a nice bit of chaeto. You should squeeze all the water out and weigh it, and get the growth of grams/day.

 

[Sonicboom]

I don't have a scale small enough to read it but I trim it down to softball size and it gets back to that size in about 2 months