This may be a little strange... But I wanted to share in case others have issues like this. A week or two ago I posted that some of my corals were declining or all out dead. The tank was being carpeted in hair algae and Cyano.
Well, I decided to try to clean it up some. I didn't know for sure what I was going to do, but I started with a few steps and things are looking a night and day different. Here's some of the steps I took:
1. my power heads were being covered in HA and cyano. I removed them both and threw them in vinegar / RO water . one I have to send in for replacement as it died in the tank not in the vingar. (I have to finish scrubbing them down.)
2. I removed the chaeto I had growing in my DT. It was carpeted in cyano and so I decided to just remove it all.
3. I removed 70% of the chaeto in my sump and turned it. (I turn it weekly anyways, but, removed quite a bit this time).
4. I did a 10% (5 gal) water change vaccuming out some of the flat worms and cyano.
5. I scraped the tank front of algae and cleaned it off best as I could.
After doing all this, the tank looks 80% better! Less brown algae, less HA, and the cyano doesn't seem to be getting out of hand now.
So, my question is, can Chaeto cause spikes in cyano? or maybe be a detritous trap to cause nitrates or nutrients to rise in certain areas of the tank causing growths of cyano and HA?
The corals are looking much happier and everything now. I doubt a 10% water change would make that much of a difference by itself.
Well, I decided to try to clean it up some. I didn't know for sure what I was going to do, but I started with a few steps and things are looking a night and day different. Here's some of the steps I took:
1. my power heads were being covered in HA and cyano. I removed them both and threw them in vinegar / RO water . one I have to send in for replacement as it died in the tank not in the vingar. (I have to finish scrubbing them down.)
2. I removed the chaeto I had growing in my DT. It was carpeted in cyano and so I decided to just remove it all.
3. I removed 70% of the chaeto in my sump and turned it. (I turn it weekly anyways, but, removed quite a bit this time).
4. I did a 10% (5 gal) water change vaccuming out some of the flat worms and cyano.
5. I scraped the tank front of algae and cleaned it off best as I could.
After doing all this, the tank looks 80% better! Less brown algae, less HA, and the cyano doesn't seem to be getting out of hand now.
So, my question is, can Chaeto cause spikes in cyano? or maybe be a detritous trap to cause nitrates or nutrients to rise in certain areas of the tank causing growths of cyano and HA?
The corals are looking much happier and everything now. I doubt a 10% water change would make that much of a difference by itself.
