Can't beat Cyano

Micro-Reefs Aquarium · Jun 24, 2021

Dan_P said:
Are you doing anything to disrupt the cyanobacteria mat? For example, daily removal by siphoning? Using a toothbrush on the rocks (after siphoning) to disturb the biofilm, forcing it to reform?

Tagging along, I have Cyano in my SPS 12 gallon AIO, it's only on my sand bed, not on my rocks at all. I siphon it out, break it into the gravel and it's clear for 1 day, next day it comes back about the same. Been doing this for about 3-4 days resisting not to use any product to ultimately getting it out of my tank.

Question, does stirring the Cyano into the sandbed bad? Can that hurt the corals? Most of my acros polyps open up when I do this as it causes nutrients in the water column and then the filers bring it back to crystal clear, just making sure I am not causing a mini spike of something when I break it back down into the sand, I just can't stand to see it sometimes. Tank is 6 months running... Phosphates .03 and Nitrate under 5ppm....

Dan_P · Jun 24, 2021

Micro-Reefs Aquarium said:
Tagging along, I have Cyano in my SPS 12 gallon AIO, it's only on my sand bed, not on my rocks at all. I siphon it out, break it into the gravel and it's clear for 1 day, next day it comes back about the same. Been doing this for about 3-4 days resisting not to use any product to ultimately getting it out of my tank.

Question, does stirring the Cyano into the sandbed bad? Can that hurt the corals? Most of my acros polyps open up when I do this as it causes nutrients in the water column and then the filers bring it back to crystal clear, just making sure I am not causing a mini spike of something when I break it back down into the sand, I just can't stand to see it sometimes. Tank is 6 months running... Phosphates .03 and Nitrate under 5ppm....

No spikes that I have heard of after covering the cyanobacteria with sand

Jonreefer · Jan 21, 2022

brandon429 said:
Just rip clean the tank by force, exclude cyano and waste, re assemble using the same skip cycle you began with and keeping the current animals in place. They adapted to a crashing reef; a deep clean is laughable in comparison.
Dispatch with all the waiting, this is distant option no. 16

Is that all you can ever reply with.
sorry to say that doesn’t fix everything. My tank is over a year old and I have been fighting it for the past 6 months. I did chemiclean a few times and it makes it all gone but few weeks later it keeps coming back in specific spots. I did an upgrade to a little larger tank and well basically did your rip clean using new sand and would say it was an 80% water change and still dealing with the cyano in the same spots in this tank. So the non stop regurgitation of this rip clean for every fix doesn’t work.

anyway I am still dealing with cyano that just doesn’t want to go away.

brandon429 · Jan 21, 2022

it’s a referral from having multiple 30+ page threads doing so, and since you don’t have any outbound works collected, not a single one, I’ll take that response with a grain of salt and some cyano.

you did a bad job on the rip clean, 80% isn’t 100% effort.

your outcome and results seem deserved.

Jonreefer · Jan 21, 2022

brandon429 said:
it’s a referral from having multiple 30+ page threads doing so, and since you don’t have any outbound works collected, not a single one, I’ll take that response with a grain of salt and some cyano.

you did a bad job on the rip clean, and your attitude reveals why.

your outcome and results seem deserved.

Please be gone. I don’t want to hear any of the dribble about this.

brandon429 · Jan 21, 2022

The word is drivel, dribbling is something I wasn't very good at in high school. Go edit that

Jon i read your entire post history back to 2015 and never saw one instance mention of a rip clean or tank transfer pass or failed with cyano.

You documented every single setup you owned, every sale you undertook, every common algae battle looking for a cyano challenge tied to a rip clean, just not that claim above is that correct? And no clarification follow up answer?

I call flagrant foul, traveling

brandon429 · Jan 21, 2022

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

I log jobs there so we can discern patterns that help or hurt outcomes. Link me your honest efforts found in a thread, I didn’t see any logged recently, so I can check for differences or compliance with those methods.