Fustrated with cyno...in sps tank

[brownsalt92]

I've had cyno in my tank for about 2 months now. It bothers me so much I will manually remove. Clean the sand with a gravel back blow out the rocks and for some reason it comes back. I see piece put chemiclean in all the time but is it safe with sps? please help I will test water and post parameters in a hour.

 

[takayan]

A-balance from KZ works very well.

 

[Nick92515]

Do you run gfo, or have a fuge, or skimmer.

How many fish and how many gallon tank? Whats your feeding schedule like and what do you feed.

This is a nutrient problem, chemicals are only temporary solutions if they even work.

 

[brownsalt92]

90 gal
Emerald 26 sump. Has a hunk of dragons breath in it.
Normally nitrates test at a 2-4
Po4 test at about a 0.08
No gfo only active carbon.

Clown Fairy wrasse
6 line wrasse
Yelow tang 2 inch
Blue hippo 3-4 inch
Tomato clown
File fish
Pipe fish
Royal gamma
Engineering goby 12 inches
Flame angle
Lawn mower blenny

I feed once a day a combo of reef frenzy, fish frenzy mysis and pellets.
Probly a tablespoon.

 

[bif24701]

Do you run gfo, or have a fuge, or skimmer.

How many fish and how many gallon tank? Whats your feeding schedule like and what do you feed.

This is a nutrient problem, chemicals are only temporary solutions if they even work.

Can be a nutrient problem, I recently got a cyano out break and my NO3 is <5ppm/PO4 0.00ppm via Hanna ULR checker.

Cyano can occur for many different reasons, usually being a newish system or a significant change, mine was going fallow. Any of the red slim/cyano products do work effectively and very well. Try to find out why the outbreak occurred and fox that first.

 

[brownsalt92]

I just moved my wp40 in the left hand corner now to redirect the flow and my mp10 I moved aswell. I have a wp25 showing up tomaro to replace one that died on me months ago

 

[Nick92515]

I dont ser much cyano, looks brown, maybe dinos... you hope not but its hard to tell from the pics.

 

[brownsalt92]

It's red cyno tanks been up and runnig for 4 years+

 

[Acrofiend]

I use chemi clean for my Cyanobacteria. Usually clears it up in about one treatment. Also try not to stir up the sand bed it will cause the cyano to spread.

 

[brownsalt92]

I dont ser much cyano, looks brown, maybe dinos... you hope not but its hard to tell from the pics.

So I came home today to see a brown stringy algea on sand and some rocks it looks hideous with halides on. This morning it wasn't on the rocks either

I dont ser much cyano, looks brown, maybe dinos... you hope not but its hard to tell from the pics.

 

[brownsalt92]

Params are
Temp 80
Salt 1.025
Mag 1350
Alk 8.6
Cal 460
No3 1ppm
Po4 .12
I know the po4 is high, should I dose potassium nitrate to get the no3 higher to get in ratio? Where do I go I increased flow that helped for a couple days.

 

[brownsalt92]

I dont ser much cyano, looks brown, maybe dinos... you hope not but its hard to tell from the pics.

I've done a search and it is dinos thanks, I will knock off my metal halides for a week to combat this

 

[Nick92515]

Id scope it to see for sure, since you were positive it wasnt before. Then you know how to go forward. Typically the lights dont work, but theres a great thread on it here

 

[brownsalt92]

Id scope it to see for sure, since you were positive it wasnt before. Then you know how to go forward. Typically the lights dont work, but theres a great thread on it here

I knocked back t5 lights as well to 4 hrs a day will ramp back up every 3 days. I've also read good things about algea fix marine! Gonna go that route. I was originally gonna do chemiclean but didn't wanna Chance it with 60 ish peices, to mini colonies of sps.

Why would the dinos have started in a 4+ year old tank? Didn't add no new sand or rock...

 

[brownsalt92]

I knocked back t5 lights as well to 4 hrs a day will ramp back up every 3 days. I've also read good things about algea fix marine! Gonna go that route. I was originally gonna do chemiclean but didn't wanna Chance it with 60 ish peices, to mini colonies of sps.

Why would the dinos have started in a 4+ year old tank? Didn't add no new sand or rock...

Only thing different was I started fragging zoas ad attaching to China frag plugs 2.5 weeks ago, and I changed my spectra pure filter on my Rodi unit.

 

[Nick92515]

Theyre probably there all along, but a change in biodiversity can make them flourish. Check out the theead in this forum by twillard. Tons of good info.

 

[reefwiser]