Lights out update . . .

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It's Spring!!!!!!!
So, it's the first day after a three day lights out for my cyano issue. I have a hang-on "˜fuge, so last night I turned on the lights over that and the moon lights last night. The actinics I turned on this morning around 10:30. All the cyano appears to be gone except for clumps of it, like it aggregated somehow, on the sandbed and some rocks. I'm not seeing any on the rocks. Yet. If you look just behind the field of clumps, it looks like there might be a dusting, like before. Not good. Where it was the worst in the back, that is gone as well. This afternoon I'm going to siphon and do a water change, change the sock, clean the skimmer.

Interesting observation . . . my xenia isn't pulsing.

I'm going to be gradual with the lights. I might turn the whites on for a couple of hours tomorrow, but I'm leaning toward waiting until Monday and then gradually increase the photoperiod throughout the week.

The real test will be once I get back to a regular light schedule. I did not like not being able to see my tank for three days!!

Here's a pic from this morning . . .
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These two zoa colonies were decimated by the cyano and are now clean . . .
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Toadstool waking up . . .
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I've been away from the board for a bit with work - did you check water params? what kind of flow do you have in the tank?
 
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