PLEASE HELP WITH THIS!!

loweryphil · Mar 14, 2020

I feel like I'm not long to go before I tare my tank apart and give up. This brown string like substance is smothering corals, all my sand bed and looks horrendous! I have tried cyano treatment to no avail, so am currently trying dr tims waste away and refresh.

I've cleaned out my sump from detritus and done 2 25l water changes 50l on a 200l cube. Please how do I get rid of this?

The rocks appear to have what can only be described as spider webs all over them. See pictures.

Wolf89 · Mar 14, 2020

Research dinoflagellates

loweryphil · Mar 14, 2020

Have blacked out the tank for three days. Will see how this goes

Jecksun · Mar 14, 2020

Cyano?

AmaleeC · Mar 14, 2020

Wolf89 said:
Research dinoflagellates

+1

najer · Mar 14, 2020

loweryphil said:
Have blacked out the tank for three days. Will see how this goes

Let us know when you un cover it please?

Mical · Mar 14, 2020

Tried this? -> https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/chemi-clean-red-cyano-remover-boyd-enterprises.html

loweryphil · Mar 14, 2020

No but something similar, didn't seem to work. Have wrapped the whole tank in black bin bags including the top, leaving a small gap for air to exchange.

Mical said:
Tried this? -> https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/chemi-clean-red-cyano-remover-boyd-enterprises.html

loweryphil · Mar 14, 2020

najer said:
Let us know when you un cover it please?

I will do. Weds tea time to see the results. I'm worried about my corals though, will they be OK or stressed?

loweryphil · Mar 14, 2020

Jecksun said:
Cyano?

No its more brown and my usual cyano treatment doesn't work.

Mical · Mar 14, 2020

I had something similar on my 65gal and did 2 treatments of chemiclean and it wiped it out. I varied off chemicleans recs to shut skimmer off, I let skimmer run with overflow cup off and let it overflow back into sump. Each treatment took about a week for skimmer to settle back to normal, but that's how I rid my tank of that stuff.

Copingwithpods · Mar 14, 2020

loweryphil said:
I will do. Weds tea time to see the results. I'm worried about my corals though, will they be OK or stressed?

I've done 4 day complete blackouts, zoas, lps, sps where all fine. Think of it as a 4 day tropical storm over the reef,they can handle it.

loweryphil · Mar 14, 2020

Thanks! Times gonna move very slowww. I'm using the Dr tims refresh and waste away recipe for dino as I believe that's what it is

Copingwithpods said:
I've done 4 day complete blackouts, zoas, lps, sps where all fine. Think of it as a 4 day tropical storm over the reef,they can handle it.

Dan_P · Mar 14, 2020

loweryphil said:
I feel like I'm not long to go before I tare my tank apart and give up. This brown string like substance is smothering corals, all my sand bed and looks horrendous! I have tried cyano treatment to no avail, so am currently trying dr tims waste away and refresh.

I've cleaned out my sump from detritus and done 2 25l water changes 50l on a 200l cube. Please how do I get rid of this?

The rocks appear to have what can only be described as spider webs all over them. See pictures.

Photos with white light would help. Looks like cyanobacteria on the sand.

WIReefer · Mar 14, 2020

I went through the same thing you are going through about 5 months ago mine looked just like yours maybe worse. just ride it out I tried everything blacked out tank as well I used chemiclean twice and kept my levels good and things bounced back and tank is beautiful now just give it time!

loweryphil · Mar 15, 2020

najer said:
Let us know when you un cover it please?

I will

loweryphil · Mar 17, 2020

najer said:
Let us know when you un cover it please?

Uncovered today. Sand pristine white, just what looks like strings of dead hair algae in places even though it wasn't there. Will hopefully stay this way now!

najer · Mar 17, 2020

loweryphil said:
Uncovered today. Sand pristine white, just what looks like strings of dead hair algae in places even though it wasn't there. Will hopefully stay this way now!

Nice, hopefully that has sorted it!