Ok forget the chemiclean

[jpitts101]

i used marcyn to get rid of my cyano. it was all gone it 3 days. its bacterial medication for fish. cyano is also bacterial so it will kill it. and yes you can use it in a reef but i would use one fourth of what it calls for ( thats what i did ). anyway, thats my 2 cents. ohh and by the way i would not stop the phyto. phyto is good for many reasons, not just corals. its made my tank explode with life since i started.

 

[salty3]

The brand is DT's, I feed them 1 tsp a week, and feed the fish very little every 3 days. I do need a new skimmer but cant get one online untill I get my cards back (wallet stolen had to canle and wait for new ones) and the only local skimmers are typhoon terminator II and prizim. Do you or any body else have experience with any of these skimmers? If there junk I will probably buy a aqua c remora pro with the mag 3 pump I have heard good resulst on it.

 

[bertoni]

I didn't particularly like the Remora Pro, but it's far better than the Prizm is reported to be. I don't know anything about the other skimmer.

DT's at 1 tsp a week shouldn't be causing this much trouble. I dose twice that per day into a 29g tank.

If you could add a refugium, or somehow grow and harvest a macroalga, that might help a lot, too.

 

[salty3]

I will be addind a 5 gal hob fudge soon and will try and get some more macro and see if that helps. I added macro a while ago and it only lasted 1 week then died, but for that 1 week my tank cleared completly so I have been wanting to get more but afraid I'll just kill it again, Do you have a suggestion for hardy macro that can take lowwer light, the last macro was under 192 watt but if I add more it will be in the fudge this time.

 

[bertoni]

Chaetomorpha might work for you. Some PC lighting would be fine for it, maybe just some track lighting would do the job.

 

[TekCat]

What are your nitrates and mostly phosphates? What worked really well for me:
- water changes
- wet skimming
- GFO + GAC

 

[salty3]

My trates are 0.5 and phos is .5 cant help the phos the water around here is bad even with new filters for ro it comes out 1.0 and I went to 5 lfs that sell water and it is all the same.I do alot of water changes, just bought a prizim deluxe I hope it helps and what is gfo+gac?

 

[salty3]

????

 

[TekCat]

GFO - grannular ferric oxide. A phosphate remover like Phosban

GAC - grannular activated carbon. Good for removing dissolved organics that cyano loves.

-- edit --
does you RO system have DI stage after RO membrane?

 

[salty3]

I dont have a ro unit I've went to stores for it and 2 of the store said they just changed out there cartridges and ive seen one of them do it but still phos. I use carbon for marine aquariums and use phosgaurd was told it works better than phosban. What do you think about phosgaurd over phosban?

 

[bertoni]

PhosGuard is aluminum-based, I think, and so I wouldn't use it in a reef tank. Any released aluminum could cause problems for corals.

 

[salty3]

Ok I'll check for sure and if so I'll switch thanks for the input.

 

[TekCat]

Agreed on PhosGuard, use Phosban or Rowaphos, they are pretty much equivalent.