PirateLove
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Hi RC. Today I bought an sps coral and now I see some cyano on it. I have not added it to my tank yet. Will my Revive coral dip kill the cyano.?
Thank you. :beer:
Thank you. :beer:
New frag with algae.
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I'm assuming the algae is on the plug, not the coral. Revive will not kill the algae but a 1/3 hydrogen peroxide 2/3 water solution painted over the algae will kill it. I like to cut the coral off the plug, then dip and then glue the coral into place. SPS corals sometimes will have eggs laid between the coral and the plug, cutting the coral off the plug effectively gets rid of the eggs which sometimes are not killed by dipping.
BeachVacationer
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If it's cyano, I would not put that in my tank! It's bacterial infection.
Reef Frog
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Yea, peroxide will melt it away. I wouldn't worry about it. Cyano is everywhere. It's carried by the wind. It will grow wherever the conditions are favorable.
Now, if you see other things lie bryopsis, bubble algae and a host of other pest algaes, that's another story. If I had a DT that hasn't been exposed to these yet, there's a 95% chance I'd pass on that frag....or at least go to great lengths to clean it up.
Now, if you see other things lie bryopsis, bubble algae and a host of other pest algaes, that's another story. If I had a DT that hasn't been exposed to these yet, there's a 95% chance I'd pass on that frag....or at least go to great lengths to clean it up.
You've exposed your tank to cyano by having it within 3 miles of a body of water. I'm only half kidding. You should probably rinse the cyano off, or see if you can get it off with a paper towel, but it's not like it's a "bacterial disease". It is, but it's a disease in the sense that the common cold is a disease, but it's almost always ever-present in every large population. Your tank is a large population of bacteria as it is. But you're seeing it on the macro level, not the micro level. It's already in your tank, waiting for the appropriate excess nutrients (namely higher phosphate with low nitrate) for it to show up on it's own.
In theory the plug could have high phosphates, and could leach them back into your tank if your tank has low phosphates, causing algae and/or cyano, but that growth wouldn't be from the cyano, but from the phosphates bound by materials in the plug.
Short answer is you won't be exposing your tank to anything it doesn't already have by adding the frag.
In theory the plug could have high phosphates, and could leach them back into your tank if your tank has low phosphates, causing algae and/or cyano, but that growth wouldn't be from the cyano, but from the phosphates bound by materials in the plug.
Short answer is you won't be exposing your tank to anything it doesn't already have by adding the frag.
