Chemiclean didn’t work on Cyano

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Anyone ever have the same problem? Treating Cyano, but it didn’t get rid of it using the chemiclean. Pic to double check and confirm that it is Cyano

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Looks similar to what I had in my tank and Chemiclean got rid of it instantly. It was almost like magic. Did you dose the correct amount for your tank volume?
 
Adrian Em said:
Looks similar to what I had in my tank and Chemiclean got rid of it instantly. It was almost like magic. Did you dose the correct amount for your tank volume?
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Yea did the one scoop per ten gallons. UV/Carbon reactor off as well
 
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Did it die and come back or not die at all? It might be feeding off the detrius that are still on your rocks if it did intially die off
 
matt_work27 said:
Did it die and come back or not die at all? It might be feeding off the detrius that are still on your rocks if it did intially die off
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It didn’t die at all. I’ll even blow it off the rocks and it comes back. Nitrates 12 and Phosphates 0.10
 
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JAMSOURY said:
Sounds good. I’ll try some manual removal and try again
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Also, you may have thought of this already but I thought I’d mention, include your sump water volume in the calculations for the total volume to be dosed. For some systems this doesn’t make much difference, but for other ones this can alter the dose. Also just so you know, I’ve overdosed chemiclean into my display before at 2x the recommended dose. Didn’t cause any ill effects, on a mixed reef tank with softies, LPS, SPS and NPS. I would suggest to redose nitrifying bacteria when overdosing though.
 
If you look closely, theres some color variation on the pictured cyano patches. Some are more red while other parts on the left are more brown.
The redder ones are more cyano dominated, the browner ones are probably more of a mix with dino/diatoms etc.
 
My cyano is spirulina. I’ve read Chemiclean is the only thing that kills it. I dosed per instructions and did a water change after 48 hours with no improvement several months ago.

This week I followed the protocol to dose, run it 72 hours, dose again, run it 48 hours, and am going to do a water change this am. This also had no improvement.

I’ve been reading that it takes a double dose of Chemiclean to eradicate it. I guess at this point I will double dose after my water change. Maybe it’s already week from the treatments this week.
 

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taricha said:
If you look closely, theres some color variation on the pictured cyano patches. Some are more red while other parts on the left are more brown.
The redder ones are more cyano dominated, the browner ones are probably more of a mix with dino/diatoms etc.
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The pink clumps struck me as being very pink (could be lighting) and clumped and less translucent then I usually observe. This treatment might have been a partial kill or very disturbing.
 
Did a water change and dosed double Chemiclean. Now wait and see.
 
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Reefrats said:
I have an air pump in the little tank and the skimmer overflowing in the big tank. So far so good… I’ll turn lights off thanks!
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Cyano are a photosynthetic bacteria. The antibiotics combined with the blackout should get rid of them.
 
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