cyno treatment

[jacksparrow7]

Aloha all, I think I have the start of cyno in my tank, dark maroon fuzzy red starting on the bottom of LR and begining on the sand, I'll post a pic tomorrow. I have a 90g RR with a 20g sump (I know small but no room yet) a H&S skimmer,110lbs LR, filter socks, I have 2 MJ 900 and a MJ 1200 in the tank for circulation and a Mag 12 for a return so I thought this was a pretty heavy flowing tank so increasing the flow would intail adding more powerheads. I thought I could syphion out most of it and then dose chemiclean. I only have a cleaner shrimp, cleaning crew and two clowns. Any thoughts on this?

Mahalo Jack

 

[DJFACN]

Chemiclean should take care of it Jack. Make sure you follow the treatment up with a healthy water change. I would also look into getting some more Maxi Jets.
Good Luck!

 

[Balz]

You may want to look at how you flow is spread through your tank. You may have dead spots that's allowing the cyano to thrive there. Might be an option, before you have to put chemicals in that nice new tank

 

[PatMayo]

I would not use chemiclean. There have been many reports of it crashing tanks. If you have corals and other such critters your playing with fire. There are other ways to get rid of it.

Check this thread it may offer some help.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=147010

As a matter of course I do no put anything in my tank that I cannot test for accurately. So that is only a few things. Alkalinity, Calcium, PH, SG and magnesium. That's all I put in mine.

Safer and the tank likes it.

Regards,

Pat

 

[jacksparrow7]

Mahalo all
Jack

 

[Aliie]

Chemiclean has worked for me in the past.

 

[BradsOcean]

I bought a diamond goby and it cleared it up fast.

 

[Aliie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9600016#post9600016 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by amoryodio
I bought a diamond goby and it cleared it up fast.

Really? He just ate the stuff? I like that idea better than adding chemicals but never heard of any fish eating this stuff.
Diamond gobys are beautiful fish too.

 

[mjm1969]

My Dragon Goby cleared the sand in a couple of days. He doesn't touch the rock though... I have used a turkey baster to blow it off the rock when it got bad and netted out what I could and used some polyfilter. It went away within a few weeks.