Another Cyano Thread!!

[ReefBonanza]

Hi,

im reading alot on Cyano aka red slime on new tank setup, alot of people call it the ugly stage, some use chemiclean some use vibrant some use brightwell clean .. some say dont do nothing and wait for the bacteria to fight off..my tank is 8 weeks old, 80 gal .. used some live rock 30 pounds and 30 pounds brand new dry rock .. new live sand bed, my question is how long does the cyano stage last if i let it be and do nothing? .. upon transfer i had 5 ppm nitrates and 0.000 phosphates.. now 5 weeks later i test 0 nitrates and 0.002 phosphates..

 

[ScottB]

At 8 weeks I would not be treating cyano with anything other than a turkey baster & or siphon.

I'd get a little more nutrient going in there and let the different competing organisms sort themselves out over the next few months.

I've seen so many dinoflagellate threads begin with "first I had cyano, so I dosed Chemiclean to get rid..."

 

[ReefBonanza]

At 8 weeks I would not be treating cyano with anything other than a turkey baster & or siphon.

I'd get a little more nutrient going in there and let the different competing organisms sort themselves out over the next few months.

I've seen so many dinoflagellate threads begin with "first I had cyano, so I dosed Chemiclean to get rid..."

i want to avoid dosing anything, i heard my test show low number but since cyano absorb nutrients i get 0 readings but in reality the numbers are way higher.. i reduced the light intensity by half and added an extra wavermaker to get more flow... theres way too much of it to siphon .. i only do the turkey baster on my frags since they get covered in cyano daily

 

[PatW]

I used chemiclean in one tank and it worked great. Tried it in another and it knocked it back but it came back. I finally vanquished it by adding a series of bacterial additives. Might have been a low diversity of competing bacteria that allowed cyano to flourish. But these were both more established tanks and I had tried low nutrients, scrubbing rocks, vacuuming sand etc.

 

[ReefBonanza]

I used chemiclean in one tank and it worked great. Tried it in another and it knocked it back but it came back. I finally vanquished it by adding a series of bacterial additives. Might have been a low diversity of competing bacteria that allowed cyano to flourish. But these were both more established tanks and I had tried low nutrients, scrubbing rocks, vacuuming sand etc.

Thanks, but from what i read, Cyano outbreak on a 1 year+ tank is not the same as cyano outbreak on a 2 month old tank, different issues, my question is how long this stage last on new tanks?, i had it for the past 3 weeks now