Frustrated

[Deep Reef]

Well about 2 months ago I had severe gha. So...l bought larger clean up crew and a reactor and starting running gfo. I guess I ran too much too quick and I killed my shoe coral....now 90% of the ghe is gone butni am dealing with a cyno breakout where the gha was .

 

[betamed]

Do you have a skimmer? How much do you feed? What are you nitrates and phosphates?

 

[AquamanE]

How old is tank? and as mentioned above where are No3 and PHO4 levels.

Cyano in a new tank is expected. Good to here you got rid of the GHA.

 

[Deep Reef]

Tank is 7 months. Nitrites and nitrates are 0, phosphate was about 0.04 with Red Sea kit. Thinking about picking up a phosphorus test kit as the Red Sea is hard to really read at e lower levels.

 

[rovster]

Tank is still kind of newish. Most important thing is don't freak out, and don't expect to fix this in a couple of weeks. Maybe bump up the waterchanges and siphoning of detritus for a couple of months and revisit the situation then. I battled cyano for what seemed like forever, then when I accepted it as part of the process, and learned to live with it, one day it just went away. At this point, the difference between test kits is not important, as you know you have nutrients because of the algae and cyano. How much don't matter much, aside from the fact that you want less. The phosphorous kit comes into play when you are ready for refinement. You ain't there yet. Keep doing what you know you should be doing, and let it play out.

-Waterchanges
-siphon crap
-blow off rocks
-modest feeding
-don't add any "supplements" other than the holy trinity as needed
-make sure your bulbs are good and run a reduced photoperiod
-Skim wet
-don't freak out

 

[AquamanE]

Tank is still kind of newish. Most important thing is don't freak out, and don't expect to fix this in a couple of weeks. Maybe bump up the waterchanges and siphoning of detritus for a couple of months and revisit the situation then. I battled cyano for what seemed like forever, then when I accepted it as part of the process, and learned to live with it, one day it just went away. At this point, the difference between test kits is not important, as you know you have nutrients because of the algae and cyano. How much don't matter much, aside from the fact that you want less. The phosphorous kit comes into play when you are ready for refinement. You ain't there yet. Keep doing what you know you should be doing, and let it play out.

-Waterchanges
-siphon crap
-blow off rocks
-modest feeding
-don't add any "supplements" other than the holy trinity as needed
-make sure your bulbs are good and run a reduced photoperiod
-Skim wet
-don't freak out

Very good advice Rovster.

 

[betamed]

yeah timing is pretty normal for a algae outbreak. I find the it takes a year after a move or a new tank build for things to really settle in

 

[Deep Reef]

Thanks Rovster. The only thing on your list is that I am currently skimming dry. I was thinking about stepping it up figuring I would pull out more nutrients that way. Thanks for the advice.

 

[rovster]

Skimming dry pulls more concentrated stuff, but skimming wet will pull more total as I understand it. Just make sure your aware of how that affects your salinity over a few weeks.