I can not get rid of Cyano bacteria

[martinm878]

ok so i did the lights out for 3 days, covered up the tank. after the last day i turn the moon lights on to find no cyano anywhere. it was late at night so i went to bed and set the lights back on auto...woke up the next day and found some cyano on the same rocks from before. so i ended up going to my LF and picked up a mexican turbo snail and some blue legs...they did the job!

 

[Defiant Arms]

on another forum some guys are theorizing mangroves help idk the policy with linking other forums and all that jazz

 

[Vadafallon]

Lights out is a fish for a symptom not the problem. How old is your sand? Are you using crushed coral? Do you clean it? Do you blow off your rocks before water changes? I am battling this right now too. I just changed out all my sand and so far it seems to have gotten better but not completely gone yet.

 

[Sk8r]

THey help. Not as much as monthly 3-day lights-outs.

 

[martinm878]

i use a power head to blow off he rocks and stir up the sand bed, my sand is maybe 2 yrs old. i used carib sea live sand...best bet is to get some mexican turbo snails and doing the lights out like sk8r said, monthly lights out should do the trick and adding a good amount of blue legs and snails. I didnt want to use red slime remover, used it on another tank i had, killed everything in the tank.

 

[hotelbravo]

Ive tried everything from chemi clean to red slime remover.


Tried microbe lift special blend to microbacter7.


Now going to try aquavitro remediation.


Blackouts do nothing to cyano as it doesn't need light to survive since it's not an algae.

This is not true at all.