What's in my sand bed?

[Saltine]

Is this bad? Should I do anything about it?

Thanks
Salt

 

[anthonys51]

very very very bad act quickly or you will lose everything

 

[Saltine]

Well that was helpful anyone else?

 

[anthonys51]

just playing its just cyno bacteria , not a big deal

 

[Saltine]

Lol thank you!! You had me going

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Correct Cyano, but it actually IS a BIG deal. It will come to the surface and cover your sand. Not much you can do about it one of two things IMO Vacuum it weekly off of the surface and wait out it's cycle usually about a month or once it gets bad use Chemclean. Personally I just wait it out usually once it's finished on it's own it doesn't come back.

 

[anthonys51]

sorry just bored at work. i dont like it either. i take a butter knife and run it along the glass and it goes away. but will come back

 

[anthonys51]

kulman , cyano can be a problem. yes but having a little against the glass under the sand isnt a big deal i have it in my tank under the sandbed for 9 months now and it never spreads

 

[anthonys51]

 

[anthonys51]

see i have some under the sand. that tank was originally set up in jan. then 2 months later i upgraded to another tank. moved the stuff over. so this tank is 5 months old i have sps growing. most people will tell you to wait 6 months. dont get nervous with ever little algae or cyano in your tank. feed your tank, feed it. sounds better with a sottish accent

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Anthony, I did similar to what you did but mine was two weekends ago and my other tank had gone through the cyano and was gone on it's own before I switched everything. I added 30lbs of sand at this point nothing else. Getting some surface algae on the sand but that's it. CUC is keeping up with everything. Going to have to hookup the elevator to get the blue legged hermits out of the sump LOL One got migrated up today.

Oh and I FEED my tank, Feed it well.

 

[Saltine]

I have added several more snails over the past week and I haven't even had to clean the glass it's nice!! Also I wish someone would have told me how awesome the Mexican snails are! He does 10 times the work as the rest.

Salt

 

[anthonys51]

yes they are great snails until they plow into all your corals and knock them over lol

 

[Saltine]

Only have one lol so far my mounting has been strong enough.

 

[anthonys51]

can i ask why you have the hang on the back filter. you do know you need to clean those like once a week or they might become nitrate factory

 

[Saltine]

It's got a small filter then just activated carbon. Tbh I only kept it there for the activated carbon portion.

 

[anthonys51]

Just keep it clean. I had one on my first tank years ago. Was a nitrate problem.