Cyanobacteria

[brownjoshua475]

Please I need help I've been battle cyano for at least a month now. I've tried everything to get it gone and cant figure it out. I've done water change one a week and syphon the sand to clean it. I've tried chemiclean and it goes away after treatment then comes back. I've tried nopox for about 6 months the stopped it lower the nitrate but not the phosphate. So I went back to chemi pure elite. It got my p04 down to .04ppm on hanna checker and my nitrate is 25. I'm currently trying vibrant going on 3rd dose but havent noticed anything yet its spreading on my rocks now. But what's on my rocks is orange in color not sure if its cyano or not. I have an AIO system on a 32 gallon biocube

 

[brandon429]

Solved:

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

Pattern inside: someone posts pic of cyano
they clean the sandbed and the rocks
after pics or vid shows clean sand no cyano

A clean sandbed can be grabbed by the handful and dropped in tank and nothing clouds. If you have cyano on a sandbed, it won’t pass the drop test. Siphoning only partially cleans, there we fully clean, and win about 98% of the time per logged pics

If you ran what we run there, and remove all those N and P binders from your tank, what are the chances we would fail at fixing your cyano going off trends

The key is we do the rare thing nobody says to do: everyone says how dangerous and destabilizing it is to take apart a reef, clean it, and do a full water change

we give four years of the work for people to decide for themselves if that’s the case.