Cyano

[haigyfish]

Hey y’all I have a decent layer of cyano in the sand bed and I do have 3 nassarius snails but it seems like they fail to stir the sand. Would a sand sifting starfish help with this?
Any thoughts ?
Thank you

 

[Rp8]

I’m sure it would contribute to moving some sand, but over all that won’t solve the problem. Take a good look at your parameters find out the issue and correct that.
Post your parameters and maybe explain your tank routines then you can work on the real issue of the cyano.

 

[haigyfish]

I’m sure it would contribute to moving some sand, but over all that won’t solve the problem. Take a good look at your parameters find out the issue and correct that.
Post your parameters and maybe explain your tank routines then you can work on the real issue of the cyano.

Appreciate the help!

salinity level is 1.025
Ph Ranges from approximately 8.0-8.2

nitrate has been dropping,
Originally after water changes it would be about 10-20 ppm
Now nitrate is reading at .05 ppm

Finally I do a weekly 5 gallon water change in my 29 gallon tank. Every week I siphon 1/4 of the sand and clean the tank on Saturdays

 

[AFHokie]

Appreciate the help!

salinity level is 1.025
Ph Ranges from approximately 8.0-8.2

nitrate has been dropping,
Originally after water changes it would be about 10-20 ppm
Now nitrate is reading at .05 ppm

Finally I do a weekly 5 gallon water change in my 29 gallon tank. Every week I siphon 1/4 of the sand and clean the tank on Saturdays

What about phosphate?

With nitrate that low you don’t really need weekly water changes.

 

[Rp8]

Cyano is usually caused by elevated phosphates and extremely low nitrates. Increase your flow or use a turkey baster to break up build up. Find where you are deficient in nutrients, balance out. As with all evolutions in the aquarium, this is not an over night evolution. Use this experience to build on your current tank husbandry and fine tune you parameter monitoring. Good luck!

 

[GARRIGA]

Solved mine by overfeeding and overdosing carbon. Nitrates are at zero as often not recommended and phosphates under 0.25. Have concluded that perhaps having ammonium constantly introduced being the key based on my experience. Did have to filter it out first but no recurrence

 

[ELChingonsReef]

I have a lot of Cyano on my sand bed. It's been there for months. I have chemiclean but I'm not in a hurry to use it. I'm hoping I can get rid of it naturally first. But it's not working. Recently my nitrates dropped from 10ppm to 3ppm. My phosphates are always at 0.03 . I started to get dynoflaglates. I've gotten passed the dinos for the most part with UV and h202 and microbacter 7 but the Cyano remains. Nitrates are back up to 10ppm phosphates are at 0.05 I've been dosing nitrates and phosphates to the system. I've also turned down the lights cleaned the skimmer replaced the RO membrane and RO filters and I still can't get rid of the Cyano. I'm very tempted to just use that chemiclean. Anyone have any ideas? Something I haven't thought of. I also run my tank on the cold side. At 77 degrees F

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I have a lot of Cyano on my sand bed. It's been there for months. I have chemiclean but I'm not in a hurry to use it. I'm hoping I can get rid of it naturally first. But it's not working. Recently my nitrates dropped from 10ppm to 3ppm. My phosphates are always at 0.03 . I started to get dynoflaglates. I've gotten passed the dinos for the most part with UV and h202 and microbacter 7 but the Cyano remains. Nitrates are back up to 10ppm phosphates are at 0.05 I've been dosing nitrates and phosphates to the system. I've also turned down the lights cleaned the skimmer replaced the RO membrane and RO filters and I still can't get rid of the Cyano. I'm very tempted to just use that chemiclean. Anyone have any ideas? Something I haven't thought of. I also run my tank on the cold side. At 77 degrees F

How often are you manually removing the cyano from the sand, and how quickly does it come back? Is it in specific spots or everywhere?

 

[ELChingonsReef]

How often are you manually removing the cyano from the sand, and how quickly does it come back? Is it in specific spots or everywhere?

I kinda gave up manually removing it. It comes back in a couple hours everywhere

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I kinda gave up manually removing it. It comes back in a couple hours everywhere

Are you sure it's actually cyano?

 

[ELChingonsReef]

Are you sure it's actually cyano?

I'm pretty sure. I'll send a photo

 

[haigyfish]

Are you sure it's actually cyano?

I have bubble hair algae

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I have bubble hair algae

????
There is no such thing, lol!

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I'm pretty sure. I'll send a photo

Could be dinos

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I'm pretty sure. I'll send a photo

Look at the photo in this article.

Eliminating Nuisance Dinoflagellates with Ocean Magik Live Phytoplankton

Eliminating harmful and ugly dinoflagellates remains one of the most common—and challenging—tasks for the marine aquarist. Not only can marine aquarium

www.algaebarn.com

 

[KrisReef]

That might have been the most convoluted hijack thread ever?

 

[Spare time]

Appreciate the help!

salinity level is 1.025
Ph Ranges from approximately 8.0-8.2

nitrate has been dropping,
Originally after water changes it would be about 10-20 ppm
Now nitrate is reading at .05 ppm

Finally I do a weekly 5 gallon water change in my 29 gallon tank. Every week I siphon 1/4 of the sand and clean the tank on Saturdays

0 nitrate and elevated phosphate makes a perfect environment for cyano

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

0 nitrate and elevated phosphate makes a perfect environment for cyano

Huh? Do you mean dinoflagellates?

 

[Spare time]

Huh? Do you mean dinoflagellates?

Cyano can get nitrogen from the atmosphere so they are more or less not limited by it. Dinos have a suspected correlation with 0 phosphate but probably not 0 nitrates from threads and my experience

 

[haigyfish]

That might have been the most convoluted hijack thread ever?

Loser