Bent
I got nothin'
I'm getting angry.
I have a mild infestation of what I thought was cyano, but I'm becoming dubious as my usual combative routines are not being successful.
Typically a cyano outbreak says to me "it's times to siphon the sand bed and sump."
So I switch to changing about a gallon of water a day (90g total volume), and siphoning the sand bed every Sunday changing about 25g total volume in the process. During the week I'll blow the crap off the rocks and get it stirred up so the overflow will catch it. I'll do this till it goes away. Then slack off on it going back to changing abou 10 gallons every Sunday.
None of this is working this time. Both my birds nest and monti have all but kicked it at this point since they keep getting covered up with the stuff.
Params are below
SG-1.025-1.026
Temp-79-80 (ranco)
P - 9 (as of last Sunday) ~.027 po4. Peak for the month of February was 11 or ~.034 po4.
Alk is around 10.
Ca- 495
Mag-1100
I did have an issue with my RO water recently, I checked the holding tank and the po4 was around .80 in there. So I changed every single filter and now it's back down to zeros. That was about a month ago, and it's what I was attributing this bloom too. But by now surely everything has lined out with my numbers being where they are? Should I keep going with my routine till it goes away or is this something more sinister? Here's a crappy iPhone pic:
I have a mild infestation of what I thought was cyano, but I'm becoming dubious as my usual combative routines are not being successful.
Typically a cyano outbreak says to me "it's times to siphon the sand bed and sump."
So I switch to changing about a gallon of water a day (90g total volume), and siphoning the sand bed every Sunday changing about 25g total volume in the process. During the week I'll blow the crap off the rocks and get it stirred up so the overflow will catch it. I'll do this till it goes away. Then slack off on it going back to changing abou 10 gallons every Sunday.
None of this is working this time. Both my birds nest and monti have all but kicked it at this point since they keep getting covered up with the stuff.
Params are below
SG-1.025-1.026
Temp-79-80 (ranco)
P - 9 (as of last Sunday) ~.027 po4. Peak for the month of February was 11 or ~.034 po4.
Alk is around 10.
Ca- 495
Mag-1100
I did have an issue with my RO water recently, I checked the holding tank and the po4 was around .80 in there. So I changed every single filter and now it's back down to zeros. That was about a month ago, and it's what I was attributing this bloom too. But by now surely everything has lined out with my numbers being where they are? Should I keep going with my routine till it goes away or is this something more sinister? Here's a crappy iPhone pic:
