New and need help - Cyano?

Tuskdomer · 09/07/2018, 01:16 PM

Just converted from fresh to salt. 20L with a Fluval HOB filter.

16 lbs live rock
4 lbs cultured rock
1 inch live sand
30 day cycle completed
2 Damsels
30 more days cycled

What is growing on my sand? Cyano? Red Slime?

ryeguyy84 · 09/07/2018, 01:28 PM

That's common on new setups little cyano or diatoms it will pass

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Tuskdomer · 09/07/2018, 01:29 PM

Here are a few more pics. Can someone tell me why they load upsidedown?

Tuskdomer · 09/07/2018, 01:30 PM

Thanks that's what I though. Also planning on adding a CPR HOB refuge. Want to increase volume and grow nutrients, etc.

ryeguyy84 · 09/07/2018, 01:30 PM

Was the camera right side up? J/k I have no idea. I just flipped my phone around

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ryeguyy84 · 09/07/2018, 01:34 PM

Any room for a sump? Looks like a pretty large cabinet it's sitting on. Add a HOB overflow and have a giant fuge with a skimmer if you wanted

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Tuskdomer · 09/07/2018, 01:41 PM

Baby steps. Trying to ease the wife into all this fun as well. Not sure she would go for a hole drilled in her counter!

mcgyvr · 09/07/2018, 05:23 PM

Thats diatoms ..totally normal and part of the ugly stages of a new tank...It will pass just keep up with routine maintenance of 20% water change every 2 weeks...

outssider · 09/07/2018, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuskdomer

Baby steps. Trying to ease the wife into all this fun as well. Not sure she would go for a hole drilled in her counter!

they thought that was a cabinet under the tank. If it's on a kitchen counter, do not drill any holes.....and I'm afraid if you keep the tank there, a sum is out of the question too.....

09/07/2018, 01:28 PM	#2
ryeguyy84 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: New Jersey Posts: 2,753	That's common on new setups little cyano or diatoms it will pass Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk __________________ Current tank: 90G mixed reef. Current Tank Info: 90 gallon

09/07/2018, 01:30 PM	#5
ryeguyy84 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: New Jersey Posts: 2,753	Was the camera right side up? J/k I have no idea. I just flipped my phone around Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk __________________ Current tank: 90G mixed reef. Current Tank Info: 90 gallon

09/07/2018, 01:34 PM	#6
ryeguyy84 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: New Jersey Posts: 2,753	Any room for a sump? Looks like a pretty large cabinet it's sitting on. Add a HOB overflow and have a giant fuge with a skimmer if you wanted Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk __________________ Current tank: 90G mixed reef. Current Tank Info: 90 gallon

09/07/2018, 05:23 PM	#8
mcgyvr Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 20,050	Thats diatoms ..totally normal and part of the ugly stages of a new tank...It will pass just keep up with routine maintenance of 20% water change every 2 weeks... __________________ Who me?

09/07/2018, 01:30 PM	#4
Tuskdomer Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 12	Thanks that's what I though. Also planning on adding a CPR HOB refuge. Want to increase volume and grow nutrients, etc.

09/07/2018, 01:41 PM	#7
Tuskdomer Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 12	Baby steps. Trying to ease the wife into all this fun as well. Not sure she would go for a hole drilled in her counter!