Cyano, help.

[1Clown]

I have cyano taking over my live rock, some pieces quicker than others. Tank is 3 months old.

Salifert tests.
Nitrate: 1ppm
Phosphate 0.03ppm

It's a low-medium flow LPS tank. Jake Adams and many many others have reef tanks with way way less flow than mine and don't have any cyano.

 

[Anthony Scholfield]

Its a young tank and things like cyano are a common occurance. As the tank matures cyano should be less of a problem.

I did alot of manual removal, aggressive disruption of the cyano and kept my PO4 and NO3 measurable in a young tank of mine. It has alot of flow and is about 6months old now. The cyano is finally not the dominant inhabitant.

 

[brandon429]

How many gallons is the tank that matters #1 in treatment options for sure, and if this is near a nano its almost easy to fix cyano using a certain cleaning method

 

[brandon429]

I see the tank is 45 or so gallons and you use reef energy ab

that solves the cyano feed issue, now to simple cleaning if you want it fixed the safest way, adding chemicals and chemi clean and altering params and buying meds for the issue isn’t the safest way.

 

[1Clown]

I see the tank is 45 or so gallons and you use reef energy ab

that solves the cyano feed issue, now to simple cleaning if you want it fixed the safest way, adding chemicals and chemi clean and altering params and buying meds for the issue isn’t the safest way.

To be honest I've barely used the reef energy at all. I think what I will do is take the affected rocks out, scrub them in tank SW that will get replaced with fresh SW and see how it goes from there. I don't understand why I've got it in the first place though.

 

[brandon429]

The rocks are usually not the issue but have seen a few times where it grows back off cleaned rocks, the sand typically is the feed

let’s see pics

rocks don’t have to be scrubbed a harsh swishing in a 5 gal bucket of saltwater casts off mats without damage

 

[Ljshelby]

Wanted to add to this, or question the cyano itself. I do have a few spots of what i think is cyano but it dose not scrub off vary easy with a toothbrush? And comes back fairly quick. Almost thought it was a nother type of coroline that looks like cyano? Could anyone question this

 

[1Clown]

The rocks are usually not the issue but have seen a few times where it grows back off cleaned rocks, the sand typically is the feed

let’s see pics

rocks don’t have to be scrubbed a harsh swishing in a 5 gal bucket of saltwater casts off mats without damage

This is right after I scrubbed the rocks real well, didn't clean the glass though. It's been 2 days now and can see cyano coming back...

 

[T-J]

I recently covered Cyano on my YouTube channel. I welcome you to take a look!