what is this crap and what eats it

[jennibee13]

not the aip, the purple stuff with bubbles on it, please dont flame me, ive neglected the tank due to personal life changes...........

parameters are good

 

[Amoore311]

Holy crap.......


That's cyano. Your best bet is to up the flow in the tank, that will take care of it.

 

[guinness0514]

if it's just on that rock I would pull it out and start over on it.

 

[Lamboozle]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15391131#post15391131 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by guinness0514
if it's just on that rock I would pull it out and start over on it.

Agree. It looks like it's cyano to me as well.

 

[jennibee13]

yeah, its seems to just be on a couple rocks, point the tunze at it?

what do you mean a start over? scrub it in the tub?

 

[jennibee13]

you know what, now that i look, its not on rocks , its on my dead coral only it seems

 

[dcombs44]

All the aptasia is actually kind of cool looking.

I agree that the other is cyanobacteria. Also agree with increasing flow to help eradicate.

As for the aptasia, kalk paste or boiling water and a syringe.

 

[coral_lagoon]

A peppermint shrimp would have a field day in your tank..:lmao:

 

[jennibee13]

yeah, i have aip x and i have 10 pepps coming but, i removed most of the dead coral with aip and cyano on it, if you hit the same areas everyday with a baster will it go away?

 

[ludnix]

If you're talking about the cyano it will go away until you stop blowing it with the baster. Your best bet is to adjust the flow of the powerheads to get more flow in that area and decrease feedings.

 

[magikfly]

Even if you manage to get rid of the cyano, you'll still have to deal with the aiptasia.
I say bleach the whole tank and start over.

 

[jennibee13]

whats bleaching? ill see how the shrimp do but, i could pull all the rock out and do what?


problem is i have 3 rbta and 1 seabae with 2 pairs of clowns, theyd be unhappy and i doubt id get the rbta off the rock anyhow

 

[DSR]

You can also help out the flow issue by using some hemostats to manually remove some of the cyano. I had some just like that in my tank and got rid of it that way as well.

The aip I just use very hot water and baster.

 

[jennibee13]

well, i have aip x but they have to ingest it, do you heat up saltwater? you could only do a few is my guess cuz of tak temp

 

[BuddhaKiss]

Who cares about the cyano, look at all them aips!! I think the aiptasia is more of a concern than the cyano....but that's just me.

BTW, all them aips look kinda.....beautiful

 

[jenglish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15391511#post15391511 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jennibee13
whats bleaching? ill see how the shrimp do but, i could pull all the rock out and do what?


problem is i have 3 rbta and 1 seabae with 2 pairs of clowns, theyd be unhappy and i doubt id get the rbta off the rock anyhow

I hope that's a real big tank! How long have you had all those nems in there? Cyano is generally a sign of the kind of conditions Nems don't thrive in. Well, aiptasia anemones do

 

[jennibee13]

6 yrs, everything is good, my no3 is 10 ppm.......thats not great but not bad..........checking my phos in a few

 

[iFisch]

Hmm.

I don't even think peppermint's will eat them. Those are huge! They'd easily ingest the peppermints no problem.

Take all that rock out, let it bake in the sun for a few days and throw it away. Buy some new rock and start dosing AlgaeFix Marine.

 

[JRechcygl]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15394506#post15394506 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BuddhaKiss
Who cares about the cyano, look at all them aips!! I think the aiptasia is more of a concern than the cyano....but that's just me.

BTW, all them aips look kinda.....beautiful

Yeah the way the pic is taken it does look eerily beautiful... Almost intentional.

As far as the aiptasia is concerned, didn't you mention its only select pieces or is your whole tank, including glass and all that covered. If its select pieces I would agree with the consensus and just either pitch the rock or boil it or heck just let it dry out for a couple days. If you get some of the major rocks it will be far easier to combat with Aiptasia X. Peppermints do work depending on the amount of shrimp and severity of the problem... The shrimp only eats small new aiptasia not the big mother ones, so keep that in mind... You also need to have quite a few of them, I would say 1 per 10 gals of water...

As far as the cyano... No one mentioned, elevated pH, elevated alk or removal of nutrients... Just because your levels aren't off the charts doesn't mean that the cyano isn't using said nutrients as soon as they are produced... When cyano smothers detritus it actually uses the nutrients almost instantaneous, many times you don't even see them in the water column. I would do some BIG water changes, coupled with blasting all the detritus you can out of the tank. Siphon that along with the cyano as you do a water change. Then make sure your pH and alk are at or above NSW levels... Increasing flow will prevent the detritus from collecting...
Lastly I would also recommend adding carbon if you don't use it already and if you do use fresh carbon.

Good luck!

 

[Naffster]

Holy Crap man you could grow the largest peppermint shrimp in captivity in that environment