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gunther13mt
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Diatom bloom you have relatively new tank huh. Have to let them run their course as far as i know you can also vacuum them out.
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zelie_dad
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When I got home today, there was this brownish stringy stuff all over the rocks and the patch on the sand had gotten bigger, and it was extra stringy.
I vacuumed a bunch while doing with a 5 gallon water change. I also blew a bunch off the rock with my turkey baster.
It is dinos, or diatoms?
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I vacuumed a bunch while doing with a 5 gallon water change. I also blew a bunch off the rock with my turkey baster.
It is dinos, or diatoms?
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zelie_dad
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I am running Zeovit, and I have cheato in my sump as well. I don't know what else I can do for nutrient export.
I have adjusted the flow in the tank. I pointed one of the power heads towards the front of the tank where the most of the growth is, but all the sand in the front is getting blow back and a "sand dune" has been created a couple of inches back from the glass. I don't know how I like this orientation of my poweheads. One pointed at the front glass from the left wall and one pointed at the left wall from the right wall.
mcgyvr
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Its just a little bit and may just go away with time...
Just siphon it out with your next water change and see what happens..
If it keeps spreading turn off the lights.. wrap the tank in a towel or something so no stray light hits it. and leave it like that for 2-3 days.. It will be gone. Your corals/fish will not be seriously effected by the lights out..
I've found "flow" to be mostly ineffective with cyano unless you are literally blowing it off whatever its on but thats just spreading it somewhere else..
Just siphon it out with your next water change and see what happens..
If it keeps spreading turn off the lights.. wrap the tank in a towel or something so no stray light hits it. and leave it like that for 2-3 days.. It will be gone. Your corals/fish will not be seriously effected by the lights out..
I've found "flow" to be mostly ineffective with cyano unless you are literally blowing it off whatever its on but thats just spreading it somewhere else..
zelie_dad
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I did a 5 gallon water change on Wednesday, and another 10 gallons change today when I got home from work.
I know for a fact the my nitrates are higher than I would like, somewhere around 6-10. For some reason my Red Sea Pro Nirate kit doesn't show the same color when I do the high range test.
My phosphates where .03 the last time I checked, which I don't think is that bad.
I moved my power heads back to how I had them. Nothing was liking the new flow pattern.
It keeps spreading. It has basically covered my zoa frag. It is all over the rocks and in patches on the sand. I started blowing it off with a turkey baster to get it down stairs and hopefully into my skimmer.
I can't really go lights out. I'm going on vacation for a week and my tank sitter is not a aquarium person, so I'm hoping that the little food that I'm going to have them add will also help with the nutrient issue.
Honestly, I believe it was me just overfeeding, and that combined with organic carbon dosing for Zeovit was a perfect storm waiting to happen.
http://www.drtimsaquatics.com/treat-aquarium-algae/treating-cyanobacteria
Worked wonders for me. Haven't had a breakout since.
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Worked wonders for me. Haven't had a breakout since.
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zelie_dad
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40 breeder with a 40 sump.
Like I said in my previous post, I was being a little heavy handed with my feeding ,and my Zeovit system hadn't been calibrated correctly for my tank size.
So hopefully I'll be good with lite feeding over the next week while I'm gone.
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