Cyano or Dino’s

[itsmanny]

Hey all,

I’ve been facing some cyano recently, seems pretty persistent and grows on my sand and rock. I just finished a flux treatment, and it started to appear in the end of my week 3 of treatment. It doesn’t hold any oxygen bubbles like Dino’s seems to typically, just grows over sand and rock like a blanket, and has these long stringy parts of it that flow off it (still no oxygen bubbles).

I’ve been doing water changes to combat it, turkey basting it into the water, and sucking most out. But it tends to regrow fairly quick, and it tends to thin out at night, and come back strong at lights on.

Does this look/sound like cyano, or Dino’s? Very red colour as well, not brown at all.

Phos 0.07-0.12 most days
Nitrate around 10-15ish
Higher nutrients since my tank is softies only now.

Hello, I had the same problem! I completed got rid of mine!

I had a black out for 2 days, covered the tank with towels. Soft corals should be fine, but maybe not if you have others. Cyano needs light to live so cutting that out should kill it.

After the black out, I syphoned as much as I could out with a 20-25% water change. I also changed my biopellets in my reactor and it cleaned the rest up within a day!

Hope this helps

 

[yanni]

Hello, I had the same problem! I completed got rid of mine!

I had a black out for 2 days, covered the tank with towels. Soft corals should be fine, but maybe not if you have others. Cyano needs light to live so cutting that out should kill it.

After the black out, I syphoned as much as I could out with a 20-25% water change. I also changed my biopellets in my reactor and it cleaned the rest up within a day!

Hope this helps

Glad to hear you had success with it! I did a few blackouts, but ultimately manual removal, combined with waterchanges helped the most. I also added a skimmer, and started dosing phyto, both of which I believe helped significantly