Cyano...After Vibrant

[Watevadog5]

After reading through many posts I see that I am not the only one having issues after using vibrant. My green hair algae is completely gone along with my bubble algae. But now I am dealing with cyanobacteria. I have cut back on my feeding I run an upflow algae scrubber I run npx pellets, as well as an oversized skimmer, skimming wet. Just wanted to see what everyone else was doing to combat the cyanobacteria.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

it should go away IMO. there's fuel in vibrant for bacteria. some folks are trying the chemiclean.

 

[Watevadog5]

I'm trying to stay away from going the chemical route. Never had cyano.. I see blackouts may work. Should I be doing large water changes?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'm trying to stay away from going the chemical route. Never had cyano.. I see blackouts may work. Should I be doing large water changes?

if your nitrates are high, yea. and I prob would after using vibrant. just dilution. is good. The common theory now is either the additional carbon source fueling the cyano, or the newly dissolved organics(dead algae).
personally I'm a fan of cleaning and using beneficial bacterias.

 

[ChiCity]

It's the dead/dying algae fueling cyano....
Once everything else is gone, the cyano starts dying back and completely goes away.
If you add new frags and or rocks it fuels an explosion of algaes ive noticed and they grow at breakneck speed!

So once everything is gone, don't add any new items to the tank and dial back the vibrant to once every 10-14 days and observe.
Your tank will look beautiful and crystal clear

 

[Watevadog5]

Cleaning meaning scrub and siphon ?

 

[Watevadog5]

I stopped vibrant as of now.. One I get this under control ill try 1x every 2 weeks

 

[Blumy]

I had BHA bad that appeared almost overnight. Used Vibrant and there is no trace after one month. I used 5 ml a week for a 72 gal tank and have no cyano issues. Do you think my less aggressive approach helped? I now use only 3 ml of Vibrant a week for "maintenance" to be sure the algae does not come back. I also did larger than normal water changes that first month. Any thoughts would be appreciated. No changes to lights or anything else.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

it fuels an explosion of algaes ive noticed and they grow at breakneck speed!

yup. need to keep low nutrints.

Cleaning meaning scrub and siphon ?

yea, old school.

 

[Watevadog5]

Time to get down and dirty !

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Personally Id not ever use it as maintenance. too much other weird stuff from folks using it.

 

[Watevadog5]

Ok so removed as much rock as I could- figures I broke my beautiful red cap monti still have cyano on some rock... If I turkey baste it off without siphon will it matter or WILL it land somewhere else and Stewart growing there ?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ok so removed as much rock as I could- figures I broke my beautiful red cap monti still have cyano on some rock... If I turkey baste it off without siphon will it matter or WILL it land somewhere else and Stewart growing there ?

dang. bummer bout the monti!
I do like to siphon out what I can, but its a bacteria so imo its always in the system, sometimes not enough we can see. I usually blow it off, just to stop it from collecting or to make sure it doesn't smother corals. And it bugs me to look at

 

[Watevadog5]

Thanks.. All your wisdom is much appreciated.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thanks.. All your wisdom is much appreciated.

lol.
It's more just my experience cleaning tanks really.

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

If it's really cyano, a little peroxide would be devastating on it. Jus' sayin'.....

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

If it's really cyano, a little peroxide would be devastating on it. Jus' sayin'.....

true dat! My only conservative view is one treatment has left the system unstable. so Id let it rest before I did a different treatment.
were all (here on r2r) still trying to figure exactly the what and why of Vibrant. Handy tool, but it does come at some cost in some cases.

 

[Brew12]

I can tell you that after my Vibrant induced cyano outbreak I stopped using Vibrant and pulled my GFO. I scrubbed my rocks and changed filter socks daily. I also could not get any measurable nitrates so I dosed some stump remover to get to 20ppm. That got rid of my cyano in under 2 weeks and within 4 days of getting my nitrates stable. (Was shocked at how much stump remover I had to add, it just kept disappearing!)

Sometimes that old school elbow grease is the best cure.

 

[prsnlty]

Microbubbling helps my cyano. Some complain that it collects under their rock. If this is true for you then you don't have enough flow through/under your rocks. Which you should have anyway regardless of microbubbling because gasses can collect there too and nuke your tank. So if your bubbles pool under your rocks get extra flow there.

 

[prsnlty]

I can tell you that after my Vibrant induced cyano outbreak I stopped using Vibrant and pulled my GFO. I scrubbed my rocks and changed filter socks daily. I also could not get any measurable nitrates so I dosed some stump remover to get to 20ppm. That got rid of my cyano in under 2 weeks and within 4 days of getting my nitrates stable. (Was shocked at how much stump remover I had to add, it just kept disappearing!)

Sometimes that old school elbow grease is the best cure.

What stump remover are you using?