TundraGuy
MantisOholic
You could try this stuff: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=18986 it was shown on Mr. Saltwater. But personally I would try to do this the safe slow way. You started off by trying to rush a fix for the cyano, it cased issues now you’re wanting to rush a fix for the meds you used. In a reef tank nothing good happens fast. I would pull my big ammonia producers i.e. the fish and house them somewhere else for the time being. From here I would go to the local club and talk to some people about some media out of there filters. This media will be coated with the bacteria you need to kick start this cycle. You can also do this with couple handfuls of sand or ruble from a sump. I would do WC daily till my chemistry was normal again. If you’d like you can set up a auto WC by using a hang on overflow (again barrow this from one of your local clubs) run this to a 5 gallon bucket. Add another 5 gallon bucket full of clean new saltwater with an aqua lifter. Run the aqua lifter lines from the bucket to the tank add a timer if you’d like. By the end of every day you’d slowly change out 5 gallons of water every day without disturbing anything in the tank. The only work involved on something like this is to dump the dirty water after a water test and refill the good bucket.
Long story short treat the tank like a brand new set up, that has corals in it.
Next time you’re having cyano issues try phosphate removers 9 times out of 10 I can rid red algae by lowering the phosphates and changing the flow in the tank. Adding chemicals to remove something in a reef is like adding fire to a forest to rid it of mosquitoes. Its far better to remove elements from the water then it is to add elements to eliminate pest.
Long story short treat the tank like a brand new set up, that has corals in it.
Next time you’re having cyano issues try phosphate removers 9 times out of 10 I can rid red algae by lowering the phosphates and changing the flow in the tank. Adding chemicals to remove something in a reef is like adding fire to a forest to rid it of mosquitoes. Its far better to remove elements from the water then it is to add elements to eliminate pest.
Will be doing a WC tomorrow so we will see... Only thing puzzling is my RBTA is small and in the back but he eats fine.. Just not sure if the tomato clown is bugging him???
