what eats cyanobacteria

[Myrddraal]

I recently had great experiences using a slime remover on my young (~2 months) tank. I was talking to the owner of one of our LFSs about it, and complaining that my tank was at the cyano stage of its cycle, and that I was waiting it out. We started talking about removers (I brought them up), and I told him I had some already since some came with the tank. He said to go ahead and use it, but slightly overdose. I dosed my ~80 gallon system for 90 gallons, and within two days the cyano was completely gone. No ammonia, no NO2, no NO3. The brand I used was UltraLife.

 

[Rewd]

Patience and proper tank maintenance is the best predator of cyano.

 

[Sk8r]

Do not use Chemi-clean until your tank is a year old. By then you will probably age out of the need to.
It plays hob with your sandbed and rock, filtration capability, and I've had to help at least two people who've had a tank crash as a result of using it, losing part of the functionalilty of their sandbed, at the same time a massive cyano sheet died off, and they lost the whole tank. Not good. I used it early on---had the diminished sandbed problem, and spent 300 keeping my mandy alive after it blitzed the pods.

One fish I've known to eat it: Rainford goby; but they can't make a dent in it.

What does work: 3 day lights-out once a month for a few months, and really good skimming. The stuff thrives on stray sunlight and too many nutrients. It's an extremophile, so most means of doing away with it don't tend to work permanently, and even after risking the chemical treatment, it's liable to come back in a few months.
Try this thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...id=1078532&highlight=three+days+of+lights+out

 

[stevelkaneval]

i found out that if one of my snails was grazeing and it happened upon a patch of cyano it would just eat it and keep going.

 

[MR PALM BEACH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11433699#post11433699 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brandon Cassidy
Use Blue Vet Red Slime remover. Worked perfectly on my 75 G. Make sure you have plenty of flow too. Nothing east CB. It is poisonous to live stock. They generally wont tough it.

Try not taking this route, the object Is to get It cleared up on a healthy natural way not useing meds. Useing meds could be deadly or even bad towards live stock such as fish, inverts, corals, etc. Scoop out much as possible and some additional flow In there if needed.

 

[clavery]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11437089#post11437089 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sk8r
Do not use Chemi-clean until your tank is a year old. By then you will probably age out of the need to.
It plays hob with your sandbed and rock, filtration capability, and I've had to help at least two people who've had a tank crash as a result of using it, losing part of the functionalilty of their sandbed, at the same time a massive cyano sheet died off, and they lost the whole tank. Not good. I used it early on---had the diminished sandbed problem, and spent 300 keeping my mandy alive after it blitzed the pods.

One fish I've known to eat it: Rainford goby; but they can't make a dent in it.

What does work: 3 day lights-out once a month for a few months, and really good skimming. The stuff thrives on stray sunlight and too many nutrients. It's an extremophile, so most means of doing away with it don't tend to work permanently, and even after risking the chemical treatment, it's liable to come back in a few months.
Try this thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...id=1078532&highlight=three+days+of+lights+out

I have to agree with Sk8r (and thanks for the assist! )- try turning your lights off for about three days and put more flow on your sand bed. Your corals will be fine without light for three days and the cyno should go away on it's own.

 

[scotmc]

Don't be like this guy. Adding chemicals to a tank, will casue problems i you don't know what your doing.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1276939

 

[hyrumbradshaw]

I have decided not to medicat my tank haha, I really dont like medicating it anyway. Besides I am all for the cheaper route, which would be let it pass naturally

 

[Rustylugnuts]

Maybe this has been mentioned but rinse your food as well. The juices the shrimp are sitting in are a nutrient source that the fish miss.

 

[hyrumbradshaw]

what is the best way to rinse the food? That is something I have not been doing.....it seems if I rinse it I will loose much of the shrimp that the fish will want to eat....

 

[Rustylugnuts]

I use a brine shrimp net I bought @ the LFS (should be cheap mine was less than 3 bucks). Before that I used a 100 micron mesh filter bag over the shot glass, held the screen over the top of the shot glass rinse pour repeat 1x feed.

 

[hyrumbradshaw]

thank you, I will try that!

 

[Darth Vedder]

For all the food rinsers that haven't read Randy's article http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/3/chemistry
You may give it a quick read and save the wasted time and effort to rinse frozen food

 

[SushiGirl]

For all the food rinsers that haven't read Randy's article http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/3/chemistry
You may give it a quick read and save the wasted time and effort to rinse frozen food

+1

Also +1 to Sk8r's post.

If you can, test the TDS of that water you're buying.