Breakthecycle2
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Aside from chemiclaean which has not worked on my sand bed (yes, it is 100% cyano). Vibrant? Peroxide? Dr. Tims?
Consensus on clearing cyano?
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the sand rinse thread has no losses against cyano and spirulina. when the offenders are blasted out of a sandbed with hot tap water, they're gone, at least for that import round.
Mainly this cleans the food base out. They're among repeat-vectored offenders that ride in from nature, and our gardens, many places, regularly.
To have a clean sb is the best defense and offense, then we work up from there. we find those to be more of a matter of farming them on purpose than anything else. When they're allowed to mass, they collect feed better, have shelter better, the forced removal attacks on several fronts. its the best method there is, to have a sandbed that cannot cloud when you reach in and drop some on test with the tank running. Most sandbeds will cloud massively, and there's the feed source in action.
Mainly this cleans the food base out. They're among repeat-vectored offenders that ride in from nature, and our gardens, many places, regularly.
To have a clean sb is the best defense and offense, then we work up from there. we find those to be more of a matter of farming them on purpose than anything else. When they're allowed to mass, they collect feed better, have shelter better, the forced removal attacks on several fronts. its the best method there is, to have a sandbed that cannot cloud when you reach in and drop some on test with the tank running. Most sandbeds will cloud massively, and there's the feed source in action.
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Breakthecycle2
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How do you blast them out? turkey baster?
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445
In my opinion there's a hierarchy of approaches all set by the gallonage of the tank, and resulting access capability. Though my vase is 12 yrs old and full of corals, its modular, can be taken apart, so it is a couple times a year and I rinse it like is shown on page one.
There is not one invader that can take over in this method, though I haven't danced with straight ostreopsis cells injected as a test of claim, heh. That method means any time my sandbed is disturbed, only sand grains fall down. There is no feed avail for invasion.
up to larger tanks where that kind of parting/take apart is a bid deal
they'll do the sand cleaning techniques shown here below
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/keeping-your-sand-bed-clean.290574/page-4#post-4047552
to get on top of nutrients, slower and over more time frame than the rip cleaning allows. With each partial cleaning, some nutrient upwell occurs and might even fuel the target; but in time the scales w turn to a sb low in organics vs high in organics and that's among the conditions that naturally suppresses cyano and cousins, given fair lighting and fair nutrient balances in the system.
In my opinion there's a hierarchy of approaches all set by the gallonage of the tank, and resulting access capability. Though my vase is 12 yrs old and full of corals, its modular, can be taken apart, so it is a couple times a year and I rinse it like is shown on page one.
There is not one invader that can take over in this method, though I haven't danced with straight ostreopsis cells injected as a test of claim, heh. That method means any time my sandbed is disturbed, only sand grains fall down. There is no feed avail for invasion.
up to larger tanks where that kind of parting/take apart is a bid deal
they'll do the sand cleaning techniques shown here below
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/keeping-your-sand-bed-clean.290574/page-4#post-4047552
to get on top of nutrients, slower and over more time frame than the rip cleaning allows. With each partial cleaning, some nutrient upwell occurs and might even fuel the target; but in time the scales w turn to a sb low in organics vs high in organics and that's among the conditions that naturally suppresses cyano and cousins, given fair lighting and fair nutrient balances in the system.
