Is this cyno bacteria?

[sclaussen]

Hey folks,

I'm new to the game - 30 days in on my 29g nano - and all of the sudden this red/purple stuff starting appearing - looking online it looks like it might be cyno bacteria. Is it?

Ammonia - .5
Nitrite - .25
Nitrate - 10

Thank you!
Shane

http://picasaweb.google.com/sapphirewave/20100828Aq#5510654908869162786

 

[curlykid]

double thread?

 

[AaronM]

Looks like cyano to me. Is it o.k to have coral in there before cycles finished? If you don't have much in there you could try lights out for 3 days to knock it back. It doesn't bother my torch coral, but bothers cyano alot...and algae.

Maybe its related to your cycle. Maybe a few other things, like not using rodi water, heavy feeding, not washing frozen food before adding, wrong light spectrum, having the lights on for too long. Some ppl say increase flow. Maybe you could run GAC and GFO somehow.

HTH!

 

[outy]

yes it is and you should not have any livestock in the tank right now

your cycle isnt finished.

not an advanced topic either, this should be posted in the new to the hobby section

 

[sclaussen]

Ok thanks for the feeback guys. I actually cross posted because I'd posted under new hobbies first then ran across someone else asking a similar question here so I thought this might be appropriate. Again, thanks for the feedback and ideas.

 

[JMartin104]

Red/Purple? How do you know it's not coralline? Can Cyno be brown and velvet-like, slimy?

 

[MechEng99]

Definitely cyano - especially given your high ammonia, nitrite, nitrate. Your tank is still cycling, and you'll see blooms of hair algae, diatoms, cyano, and eventually coralline during your cycle. Rather than just treating the cyano, you need to treat the source. Are you using RO/DI water? Do you have livestock (how much are you feeding) (if you do have livestock you may want to ask a friend or LFS to hold it until your tank finishes cycling), did you purchase used/old bulbs for the tank, how good is your flow, or you could just have a lot of die-off from the live rock you're using.

 

[mcdonaldjosh7]

If this is the first you have seen of algae, then this means you algae bloom is starting. Its not a bad thing, but as stated above no livestock should be kept in the tank right now. More algaes will come and go. When it is back to cyano, that means yo are nearing the end of the cycle.