I am doomed! Red cyano bacteria

[Ballyhoo]

i've used red chemiclean twice inspite of strong advocacy against using this perhaps toxic substance. when I do it, I transfer many of my valuable coral to a second tank. It's been 10 days since I used to chemiclean it worked for three days and here I am. i've even recently created a nice refugium section inside my sump with plenty of devils tongue and cheato, which I have lit 12 hours a day. this cyano strain is relentless!

I AM DOOOOOMED!!

 

[danreef55]

Hi ballyhoo,
what are your phosphate and nitrate levels?
do you have adequate flow low in the tanks?
Then we can try and help

 

[Ballyhoo]

I have a lot of flow. I have a reef wave which I set at 40% random. Then I bought a little Nero which I kind of set it low like 20% and I have my regular pump running at 55%. P03 about .012. Nutrients are a little bit high last time I checked that's why I'm setting up the refugiium. NO3 are like 50. also, and I wake up in the morning and there really is no red cyano but I know my coral need a lot of light. All that stuff going needs a lot of light.

 

[danreef55]

Getting you nitrate down to 10-15 will greatly assist in mitigating GHA. The fuge is a great addition. Did you do a water change after the ChemiClean ? You got this and aren't doomed

 

[Jekyl]

Manual removal and dose live phyto. Cleared mine up.

 

[UMALUM]

Cyano doesn't care if your nitrate is 5 or 50. it's not gonna consume / convert any more or less than in needs to survive. Trying to fight a bacteria with nutrient reduction isn't gonna work. If your sick of trying the erythromycin find a good bacteria that will benefit your whole tank and outcompete it naturally.

 

[danreef55]

Cyano doesn't care if your nitrate is 5 or 50. it's not gonna consume / convert any more or less than in needs to survive. Trying to fight a bacteria with nutrient reduction isn't gonna work. If your sick of trying the erythromycin find a good bacteria that will benefit your whole tank and outcompete it naturally.

Adding beneficial bacteria is certainly advisable. Let's take a look at nitrates.... if the GHA has peaked utilizing in excess of 50 reducing it to 5 will certainly starve at least a portion of the GHA.

 

[UMALUM]

Adding beneficial bacteria is certainly advisable. Let's take a look at nitrates.... if the GHA has peaked utilizing in excess of 50 reducing it to 5 will certainly starve at least a portion of the GHA.

What GHA?

Did I miss something?

 

[danreef55]

What GHA?

Did I miss something?

Holy cow I am posting in the wrong thread the is another with Green Hair Algae apologies all!

 

[Patx]

@Ballyhoo are you 100% sure that this is cyano ?

Can you lift up a thick peace ?

 

[Ballyhoo]

no it disintegrates

 

[thedon986]

I would suspect dinos. Two rounds of chemiclean, disintegrates, disappears at night. Dinoooooooo

 

[Patx]

Could be dino's tho...
When you did the "chemiclean" they disappear or you siphoned them first , treat... and then they come back ?

 

[thedon986]

Those pictures showing the red *between* the larger grains of sand and not forming mats over everything also points to dinos

 

[Tamberav]

It's probably dinos... you dose chemi clean to get rid of cyano and dino follows... this happens a fair amount of time...

You often trade one problem for another with chemi clean because it effects more than just cyano.

 

[Jekyl]

Can we have some clear white light pics?

 

[Ballyhoo]

well they just so red i thought red cyano

 

[thedon986]

well they just so red i thought red cyano

Was your phosphate at .012 a typo? Because that’s basically zero so that would probably be your culprit for the dino bloom.

.1 should be your floor especially with nitrates that high.

 

[Ballyhoo]

yes typo. .12. but i thought it should be less,? like. 09 or less.