Cyano and chemiclean

[canister guy]

So after a battle with cyano for quite some time now. I have only been doing 10 15 percent water changes twice a week. Changing my media every two weeks. Constantly with my trusty turkey baster and kids sand shovel I clean the sand. At its worst my tank was covered and now I have only a few dead spots that I can not get it to go away. Just ordered small power heads for those spots. Now after all that I decided to treat with chemiclean this morning. My question is should I be running my skimmer and how long is it gonna take before it stops filling up my skimmer cup?

 

[JaimeAdams]

What most people do is they take the skimmer cup off and leave it run full blast to aerate the water. 99% of the time that you hear people having issues using chemiclean is because they did not increase oxygenation as instructed to do so on the packaging.

 

[Coronus]

Run the skimmer, just take the cup off. The skimmer will overflow for a couple days. But you can easily take care of the by draining the skimmer into a bucket and replacing with new salt water. If their is no drain on the cup, use airline tubing and just syphon the skimmer cup water outcontinuously until its done overflowing

 

[Scurvy]

What I've done is remove the skimmer cup and then covered the overflowing body with a zip lock bag to keep the mess off my cabinet walls and other equipment. I've also had good results killing the lights during the 48 hour treatment.

 

[jschultzbass]

I raised my skimmer on a stand with the volute wide open after a day of it running with no cup. Worked great and a couple days after adding carbon to soak the rest of the chemiclean up everything was back to normal. Stuff worked great for me. I also started dosing Vibrant (they have a thread on here) from Underwater Creations after the chemiclean and I haven't had any algae period for about 3 months.

 

[canister guy]

What most people do is they take the skimmer cup off and leave it run full blast to aerate the water. 99% of the time that you hear people having issues using chemiclean is because they did not increase oxygenation as instructed to do so on the packaging.

Ok gotcha. I did add just a small air stone. And did turn on uv. Why do you think that needs to be turned off?

 

[canister guy]

What I've done is remove the skimmer cup and then covered the overflowing body with a zip lock bag to keep the mess off my cabinet walls and other equipment. I've also had good results killing the lights during the 48 hour treatment.

Ahh ok sweet. Thanks. Yeah. I turned my lights off. Was only on like 8 to 10 hrs. I guess I just leave them off the whole time thanks

 

[canister guy]

I raised my skimmer on a stand with the volute wide open after a day of it running with no cup. Worked great and a couple days after adding carbon to soak the rest of the chemiclean up everything was back to normal. Stuff worked great for me. I also started dosing Vibrant (they have a thread on here) from Underwater Creations after the chemiclean and I haven't had any algae period for about 3 months.

After my 48 hrs. I have a fluval fx canister do you think I should replace everything?

 

[jschultzbass]

Canister filters aren't really recommended for saltwater aquariums very often. I ran one at first as well until I saw most people recommending against them so took it off and haven't looked back. But if you're running your carbon in one I would replace it after a few days and then you should be good.