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Four hours of halides is not to much. I run my leds 8 hours and my blues are on 2 hours before and 2 hours after.
 
Here's an update, last night I removed foam and added Kent's phosphate sponge, took a turkey baster and blasted off cyano on my rock, did a 20% water change sucking up the cyano I blasted off as well as what was on my substrate. If I don't see an improvement I'm going to get new bulbs maybe my spectrum is off?


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I used to have outbreaks in my aquapod all of the time. I now have 2 nano tanks and I haven't had that problem again. I attribute it to increased flow. I have a mp-10 on one and the other is drilled with a mag 5 for the return. Increase your flow and see what happens.
 
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Ah I did mess with my flow the hqi setup has two returns so I messed with them a little bit, if at all possible I'd like to avoid adding in another powerhead


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Kill your lights and stop adding food until it clears up.

then resume with less lighting and feeding and adjust until things are growing nicely but the cyano doesn't come back.


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Trentondrummer33 said:
Here's an update, last night I removed foam and added Kent's phosphate sponge, took a turkey baster and blasted off cyano on my rock, did a 20% water change sucking up the cyano I blasted off as well as what was on my substrate. If I don't see an improvement I'm going to get new bulbs maybe my spectrum is off?


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Great job!! Your doing it right. How old are your bulbs?
 
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Update, my phosphates are down to .25 I seem to have a little cyano still on my sandbed and live Rock but I think it's just left over I couldn't get during my last water change. Will do another change and try to get the rest out


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Also thinking of setting a fuge up to help with phosphates. Only down fall would be I'd be losing my skimmer, even though it is the jbj nano skimmer and I don't believe it to be efficient I'm still nervous, what do you guys think?


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kyle1284 said:
DO NOT DO THIS! BIOBELLETS feed bacteria and cyano is bacteria!!!
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Well this is odd. I have a 135g setup that starts off pretty well, then 4 months later, my tank had a small amount of green hair algae, then comes cyano. They spread all over the rocks, sands, and etc.. At first, i tried using rowa-phos with mr1 reactor, that helps a little, but not enough to control it. So i went and buy a smr1 with warner marin bio-pellets. Used it for 2 weeks or so, saw cyanos fall off from rocks, lots of them. After using for 2 months, they are all gone. True facts.

Good Luck!

note: make sure you setup a sucket under the outlet of the overflow to catch all the cyano debris.
 
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Interesting discussion on the Aragonite. I have my 300 with 125 sump, 1/2 full and a frag tank plumbed into the same system. I have no cyano in the sump or frag tank but I do get it, mostly on the sand bed, but a little on the rock work in the lower flow areas. I have new RO/DI media. I think new sand is in order.
 
A new light made a world of difference for me, it has stopped growing and actually started disappearing after I replaced my MH bulb


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