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11/15/2007, 09:03 PM | #1 |
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Cyano
How have you dealt with Cyano? I've got some patches I want to get rid of. I have a reef.
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11/15/2007, 09:11 PM | #2 |
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Never have. But what are your water parameters?
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11/15/2007, 09:13 PM | #3 |
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nitrate 0
nitrite 0 ammonia 0 ph 8.4 |
11/15/2007, 09:19 PM | #4 |
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What is your turn over rate. Also any PH in tank? I hear Cyno is cause by whacked out para. and lack of water movement.
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I prefer not to think before I speak, I like to be just as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth. Current Tank Info: I have a 180 gal mostly LPS corals, it contains 1 Val. Tang, 1 yellow striped clown fish, 3 percula clownfish, a blood shrimp, cleaner shrimp and a sand shifting goby, 5 pajama cardinals, 1 green chromis. Also a 75 gal. sump/fug. |
11/15/2007, 09:20 PM | #5 |
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Yea I moved my power head down lower so we'll see what happens tomorrow.
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11/15/2007, 09:22 PM | #6 |
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Ok
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I prefer not to think before I speak, I like to be just as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth. Current Tank Info: I have a 180 gal mostly LPS corals, it contains 1 Val. Tang, 1 yellow striped clown fish, 3 percula clownfish, a blood shrimp, cleaner shrimp and a sand shifting goby, 5 pajama cardinals, 1 green chromis. Also a 75 gal. sump/fug. |
11/15/2007, 09:22 PM | #7 |
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Probably phosphate or silicate problem. From feeding and water source. Tempolary fix is adding more flow to where the cyano is. Feed less and check your water source is long term fix for phosphate/silicate problem. You can also run phosban.
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11/15/2007, 09:28 PM | #8 |
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I buy RO water from LFS. They might have a problem with their water.
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11/15/2007, 09:28 PM | #9 |
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We just had a massive posting on red slime in our local reef forum.
If your tank is new (<1 yr old) it may be due to normal cycle of a maturing tank. Otherwise it could be due to light bulbs. How old, what type of bulbs do you run. Could be due to phosphates. What water do you use? RO/DI? do you have a TDS meter? have you changed your filters recently. Could be phosphates from feeding. What do you feed? How much? How often? Could be from left over carbon-based wastes. How often and what size water changes do you do? Do you siphon off the sand to get detritus? Do you have DSB? SSB? BB? Do you have sand sifting critters or cucumber? Could be due to excess CO2. Do you have a Ca reactor? Your pH looks to be on high end of normal. So as you can see it's multifactoral. You need to figure out or limit the sources as you can. I myself had a really bad outbreak. I have been pre-thawing frozen food to wash away the excess phosphates for 10 days now. Cyano is GONE!!! It was frustrating and took a long time to get rid of it. I refused to use chemical red-slime removers. I had to use the process of elimination, but ultimately it worked. And again, NO CHEMICALS! Good luck!
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11/15/2007, 09:29 PM | #10 |
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I also feed once every other day. My tank is fairly new
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11/15/2007, 09:38 PM | #11 |
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you've probably got a few things going on. RO source is suspect. I got a great RO/DI new off of ebay for around $100. A vital investment. Not sure how much you're feeding when you do feed, or what you're feeding. Algae in new tanks is usually due to a little overfeeding. Cut down amount and feed everyday. That way less will hit the bottom and decay.
Siphon off the redslime when you do water changes to help manually remove it. You'll get there. In my old 72gallon, I had it for a while when tank was
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11/15/2007, 09:40 PM | #12 |
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....when tank was < 1 yr old. Then one day, gone. It was just the "new tank" algae blooms that they all go thru while they mature.
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