flow for 12 gallon aquapod=cyanobacteria

[zoomster]

I have a 12 gallon aquapod and I've been fighting cyanobacteria for about 2 months. I test twice a week and my parameters are great.

Nitrates-0
Nitrites-0
ammonia-0
phosphates-0

I use ro/di water and do 2-3 gallon water changes every week without fail. The only thing I thought could be causing the red slime was flow. I did what was suggested on reef central and upgraded to a maxijet 900, but that was 6 weeks ago and I still have it in parts of the tank with less flow. Has anyone done anything else to help with flow in your aquapods to prevent "the slime".

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Illuminati]

Running Phosban? If not get a container of it. The container comes with a mesh bag. Add Phosban to the mesh bag and drop it in a chamber.

I've had it once and have beaten it in a week in my 24.

What other media do you have in your chambers?

 

[zoomster]

Thanks for the suggestion. Im not using phosban yet. I will try it. Currently i'm only using live rock and carbon in the chambers. I removed the sponge filter about a month ago to see if that was the problem. No luck. Thanks again.

 

[Illuminati]

In my cube I have:

Chamber 1 - Chemi-pure on the bottom, filter floss on top of it and the phosban baggie on top of that.

Chamber 2 Purigen & Heater

Chamber 3 MaxiJet

I've heard you get the best results with using a reactor with phosban but I'm just using the mesh baggie and cannot complain.

They also make a product called red slime remover. Not sure what all you have to do, if mine got much worse I'd use it as a last resort. Might want to check it out.

Hope it gets better.

 

[Zero-2-Sixty]

try to avoid the red slime remover, im a believer in not using un-necessary chemicals

i think cyano grows in areas of low flow. i use a MJ900 with a hydor on my 12g NC and dont have any cyano problems, you could give that a try.

 

[Zero-2-Sixty]

the hydor that is

 

[zoomster]

thanks. what is a hydor? I really feel that it's a flow issue I'm having. I'm using the stock split directionals for the flow output and the slime problem seems not to exist in the direct path of the flow. Is a hydor something that will spread the flow more evenly? thanks again.

 

[Illuminati]

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