Best ways to combat Cyanobacteria?

[Bolen2]

Hey all, I have a bit of a cyano problem in my reef. It doesn’t cover the live rock as much as the glass but I want to get rid of it before it really becomes more of an issue. I have tried chemiclean but I don’t much care for it since it is only a temporary solution. Is there any equipment you would recommend to help deal with this? I have a skimmer and phosphate reactor running already. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[Jib]

I have a skimmer and phosphate reactor running already. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

What are your water parameters? Do you need the skimmer and reactor running? The cyno could be from nutrient levels being bottomed out.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Cyano bacteria comes with excess nutrients.
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[Jib]

Cyano bacteria comes with excess nutrients.
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I'm not sure this is always the case. I had a bad outbreak of green cyno from no N03 or PO4. Got better from getting my nutrients up.

 

[Bucs20fan]

Every time my nutrients spike in my FOWLR tank its almost instant cyano, and it goes quick. As soon as I get them under control it dies off almost completely in 7 days.

 

[damsels are not mean]

Every time my nutrients spike in my FOWLR tank its almost instant cyano, and it goes quick. As soon as I get them under control it dies off almost completely in 7 days.

did cyano grow because nutrients spiked or did nutrients spike for the same reason cyano bloomed

 

[damsels are not mean]

Hey all, I have a bit of a cyano problem in my reef. It doesn’t cover the live rock as much as the glass but I want to get rid of it before it really becomes more of an issue. I have tried chemiclean but I don’t much care for it since it is only a temporary solution. Is there any equipment you would recommend to help deal with this? I have a skimmer and phosphate reactor running already. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I am an advocate of patience in these situations. Cyano comes and goes. Sometimes it just stops coming eventually. If it really bothers you it's just gonna be some elbow grease.

 

[Kapachuka3]

Dude just keep taking it out and wait it out, i had some kill my zoas. Just wait out.

 

[Bucs20fan]

did cyano grow because nutrients spiked or did nutrients spike for the same reason cyano bloomed

It for sure was one in the same, I heavily feed in that tank as it is a predator tank. I must be bass backwards in regards to nutrients in a fowlr and reef tank, I have them where I need to in my reef but my fowlr is another challenge entirely. But thankfully ammonia is always at 0, just nitrated and phos can jump, and neither of those tend to bother fish nearly to the degree as inverts and corals.