Cyano that won’t go away

[FLNewbie]

I have a 16 gallon biocube that has a cyano outbreak. I have agitated the cyano multiple times and sucked it up with air line tubing. I have added several blue legged hermits and nassauris snails. I tried adding another power head but it doesn’t seem to help. I have dosed with chemi clean 3 times now and it doesn’t seem to help.

My tank has:
2 clowns
1 cleaner shrimp
A whole lot of zoas
Toadstool
2 hammers
1 ricordia
2 Brian corals
And a conch

I use chemipure elite and purigen.

Any suggestions?

 

[wesman42]

What are all of your tank parameters including Phosphates?

Those might be Dinos, not Cyano...especially if you used chemiclean to no avail.

 

[brandon429]

This way is guaranteed to work its twenty pages of simply taking your tank apart, cleaning it, and putting it back without the invader. Free study material/it always works we show. Hope you give it a run, can be fixed in one run

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/the-official-sand-rinse-thread-aka-one-against-many.230281/page-20

Due to the small size of the nano reef, they can be taken apart and cleaned vs delaying your enjoyment for months working only through the water. You can be fixed in one day. How to do it without causing a cycle, take apart pictures and steps, outcomes, eight month updates, all there

Your rocks needs rinsing and cleaning outside the tank as much as the sandbed does, a total evacuation cleaning is how to fix the nano reef.

 

[Mical]

Try dosing MicroBacter7. I agree w/wesman42 looks like Dinos - https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/microbacter7-complete-bioculture-brightwell-aquatics.html

 

[vetteguy53081]

That is dynoflagellates and diatoms. Can be scrubbed off with a brush or get some turbo snails and a clean up crew. Red Sea NoPo4 will help reduce this also.

This is cyano:

 

[Doctorgori]

Might not be the best answer but I give that cyno a shelf life of a few months to 1yr regardless of whether you do anything or not ... unless you slack a lot
...just saying Ive never known it to be a permanent fixture under normal circumstances

 

[Saltyreef]

Ive always had api Erythromycin work for small cyano outbreaks. Sometimes needs a follow up dose after the water change if any remains.
This is a last resort effort using antibiotics though.
Never had anything on my reef suffer from using it besides the cyano of course.

 

[SDK]

What are all of your tank parameters including Phosphates?

This, plus how long has this tank been running?