Lossing cyano battle

[Ag.saltyreef]

I have a 25 lagoon tank with mighty jet nano, slw-20 wavemaker, 2 ai primes, ato. My back chambers is filled with media balls. The tank has been running for 2 months going on 3 and the cyano is going crazy in my tank. I thought about reducing my lights and adding bacteria in my tank to fight back.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!?!?!?!

 

[sfin52]

I have a 25 lagoon tank with mighty jet nano, slw-20 wavemaker, 2 ai primes, ato. My back chambers is filled with media balls. The tank has been running for 2 months going on 3 and the cyano is going crazy in my tank. I thought about reducing my lights and adding bacteria in my tank to fight back.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!?!?!?!

I love dr. Tim's recipe. It's what I used to beat back my cyano. In both a reef and Fowlr. The Fowler doesn't have a skimmer

 

[Jaebster]

I have a 25 lagoon tank with mighty jet nano, slw-20 wavemaker, 2 ai primes, ato. My back chambers is filled with media balls. The tank has been running for 2 months going on 3 and the cyano is going crazy in my tank. I thought about reducing my lights and adding bacteria in my tank to fight back.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!?!?!?!

Have you tried red slime remover. It's always worked for me.

 

[Ag.saltyreef]

I love dr. Tim's recipe. It's what I used to beat back my cyano. In both a reef and Fowlr. The Fowler doesn't have a skimmer

Im getting the first bottle in this picture of dr.tim

 

[Ag.saltyreef]

Have you tried red slime remover. It's always worked for me.

I haven't tried it. Wanted to stay away if possible. But if i cant figure out a solution, then ill have to

 

[Jaebster]

I haven't tried it. Wanted to stay away if possible. But if i cant figure out a solution, then ill have to

Any reason why you want to stay away from it?

 

[Ag.saltyreef]

Any reason why you want to stay away from it?

I heard it can kill coral

 

[Dan_P]

Im getting the first bottle in this picture of dr.tim

I don’t know what product is called, but people who use bacteria products to fight red slime select those that say “reduce waste, detritus and grunge”. Not saying they work though. I don’t thing you need nitrifying bacteria.

 

[Phildago]

Increase your flow

 

[Jaebster]

Hmmm... both times I did it, didnt kill any of my softies, LPS nor SPS. Didnt kill any inverts either. Maybe others will post their experience with it to confirm.

 

[Ag.saltyreef]

Hmmm... both times I did it, didnt kill any of my softies, LPS nor SPS. Didnt kill any inverts either. Maybe others will post their experience with it to confirm.

Okay, if i have to then so be it. I rather stay away if possible

 

[ScottB]

I've not dealt with cyano very seriously before, so I'll leave that to others with more experience.

What I will say about Chemiclean and Red slime remover (erythromycin) is that if your nutrients (PO4 in particular) are low when you dose this, I will be ready to help you out over in the dinoflagellate thread a week later. And you won't like implementing my suggestions. Getting rid of dinos is ugly work.

 

[Ag.saltyreef]

I've not dealt with cyano very seriously before, so I'll leave that to others with more experience.

What I will say about Chemiclean and Red slime remover (erythromycin) is that if your nutrients (PO4 in particular) are low when you dose this, I will be ready to help you out over in the dinoflagellate thread a week later. And you won't like implementing my suggestions. Getting rid of dinos is ugly work.

Oh shoot!!!! Thats why i was going to add more bacteria and less light. So hopefully the good bacteria can attack ot all

Ill keep you in mind!!!!

 

[brandon429]

this tank would be easy to fix, all nanos are easy to fix from cyano as you just take the tank apart, make the sand rinsed until its cloudless, reassemble a no cyano reef. it would be different and more challenging if you had a large, inaccessible tank.

 

[Ag.saltyreef]

this tank would be easy to fix, all nanos are easy to fix from cyano as you just take the tank apart, make the sand rinsed until its cloudless, reassemble a no cyano reef. it would be different and more challenging if you had a large, inaccessible tank.

That doesn't sound hard. But is thay effective so it won't come back?
Wouldnt i have to recycle the tank??

 

[brandon429]

no and thats a great question, i made a 30 page thread showing the job. this isn't to flood you w reading. its to show true patterning. any dude off the web is like : take your whole reef apart and rinse the sand in tap water is either a looney tune or

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

without a work thread I wouldnt accept the offer from a random joe. but wow we're slaying cyano there, just slaying it.

 

[brandon429]

read the first post and last two pages there. that w save read time

that couple pages at the end alone is about 5 jobs start to finish, your size tank included.

the reason it doesn't recycle yours or any system is sandbed bacteria don't matter, only live rock bacteria. you can rip away all sandbed bac from any reef, and it doesn't recycle.


BRS tried to do that once, using a different means than we do, and it harmed their tank. The reason we're out to 30 pages w no harm is by doing the job oppositely; we disassemble the tanks fully before removing, which is why a nano is great for the work. its easy.

that's not one recycle in 33 pages of rip cleans.