Cyano! What can I do?

[ruskimax]

Just my 2cents. Whenever I strip my tank of either nitrates OR phosphates, I tend to have cyano creep in. Usually letting N/P ratio become more balanced is enough to get everything back on track. Have only needed Chemiclean once, but it works like a charm and had no appreciable effects on any of my livestock (LPS, shrooms). At the end of the day, the cliche about only bad things happening fast in reefs holds true. Change one thing at a time, observe for several days while tracking parameters for trends, avoid the urge to correct all your mistakes at once, find a doable routine for maintenance and stick to it, practice restraint w feeding and stocking, and most of all read as much as you can before adding/subtracting animals or equipment. Cyano (at least for me) has been one of the easier headaches to correct. Hope the same goes for you.

 

[DraggingTail]

Just my 2cents. Whenever I strip my tank of either nitrates OR phosphates, I tend to have cyano creep in. Usually letting N/P ratio become more balanced is enough to get everything back on track. Have only needed Chemiclean once, but it works like a charm and had no appreciable effects on any of my livestock (LPS, shrooms). At the end of the day, the cliche about only bad things happening fast in reefs holds true. Change one thing at a time, observe for several days while tracking parameters for trends, avoid the urge to correct all your mistakes at once, find a doable routine for maintenance and stick to it, practice restraint w feeding and stocking, and most of all read as much as you can before adding/subtracting animals or equipment. Cyano (at least for me) has been one of the easier headaches to correct. Hope the same goes for you.

Everything seems happy. It's just ugly and the MH are so strong it gets air pockets trapped in the cyano. Then when the MH go off it kind of disappears. I could probably leave it be but would rather get rid of it.

 

[brandon429]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445

The most cyano cures in one thread anywhere. If you run that method on your tank it's fixed

It's different than every offer here because what we do is take your tank apart and clean it to the bone and put it back together without losing a single thing just like we did for 20 pages

since you have 55 gallons that's easily accessible with one brute trash can drain and nothing beats this for outcomes, we show.
we don't use test kits there in the thread, so all the work is physical not chemical and the results are logged

It's the clouding that would result from disturbing your sand bed or shaking those rocks mid column

As soon as you decloud the entire system all at once the cyano and it's feed is gone

There are certainly cyano controls you can use that don't involve taking the tank apart but if you do it this way you correct upcoming invasions because this is all the same fuel

Rip cleaning is specifically the action that makes reef tanks live to their full potential, it is the specific technique to undo old tank syndrome which is really just eutrophication/organic compounding/invaders who capitalize the condition. It's not the only way to fix your condition it's just the best way for your entire system since it's an accessible volume vs too big to access directly

 

[DraggingTail]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445

The most cyano cures in one thread anywhere. If you run that method on your tank it's fixed

It's different than every offer here because what we do is take your tank apart and clean it to the bone and put it back together without losing a single thing just like we did for 20 pages

since you have 55 gallons that's easily accessible with one brute trash can drain and nothing beats this for outcomes, we show.
we don't use test kits there in the thread, so all the work is physical not chemical and the results are logged

It's the clouding that would result from disturbing your sand bed or shaking those rocks mid column

As soon as you decloud the entire system all at once the cyano and it's feed is gone

There are certainly cyano controls you can use that don't involve taking the tank apart but if you do it this way you correct upcoming invasions because this is all the same fuel

Rip cleaning is specifically the action that makes reef tanks live to their full potential, it is the specific technique to undo old tank syndrome which is really just eutrophication/organic compounding/invaders who capitalize the condition. It's not the only way to fix your condition it's just the best way for your entire system since it's an accessible volume vs too big to access directly

I'm not doing that

 

[brandon429]

ok not a prob, just showing you the constant results of those who did posting same before pics, and fixed tank after pics.

we did one last week its updated last page.

we like to track the threads that cure it while leaving all the detritus and invader in place as well- no cleaning work, to see how time fares and how succession events work out.

it helps large tankers to watch for cure options when they're dealing with tanks they couldn't access if they were willing, we like to be able to compare end results and timeframes.

 

[brandon429]

One of the effects of having rocks bound with invaders is they cannot express their detritus as normal, it begins to compact inside.

meds don't fix that as they still need to express waste out from the pores daily, even while treatment is slowly coming on using meds or param adjustments...it takes a long time for currents and natural ejection to dislodge that stuff once the cyano is killed

this cleaning isn't harmful as it may seem in reading the description, in the link it shows we restore tanks with it...we take a months long process and run it in 24 hours which ironically is safer for corals vs the param and med changes that have to be sustained a long time, to hopefully get the cyano alone to go away. I know the work method has few entrants, this is just side details that uncover why it works so well and its hard to find other methods with even 3 pages of work/

 

[Ali KOKSAL]

When I told to my LFS that my nitrate 5 but PO4 is zero, he directly said it will cause cyano. I see in your parameter chart PO4 is zero. Think about it.

 

[Ali KOKSAL]

when I told to my LFS that my nitrate 5 but PO4 is zero, he directly said it will cause cyano. I see in your parameter chart PO4 is zero. Think about it.

 

[DraggingTail]

when I told to my LFS that my nitrate 5 but PO4 is zero, he directly said it will cause cyano. I see in your parameter chart PO4 is zero. Think about it.

Ali,
How can I raise it?