Red cyanobacteria

[Fat_Fender]

Been dealing with this stuff for awhile now, from alot of reading its seems that raising nitrates will help prevent this stuff coming back.
have used red slime remover but comes back within a week.

I'm running a 30g tank with 2 clowns, 2 trochus snails, 1 cleaner shrimp, heaps of baby trochus snails.
6 corals, all growing well
2 wavemakers
hd16 on a 8hr cycle
500L skimmer

Tank 1.5years old

Ammonia: 0.25 (tested after a feeding)
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 0
P04: 0 maybe 00.3 (so hard to tell giesemann test kit)
Use ro/di water

So got myself some "coral essentials nitrate up"

Questions:
1. How much should I up my nitrate ppm per day/week? (how much is too much at once)
2. I have 3 large xport bio bricks in my sump from my older bigger tank, would this cause problems so much media for a small tank? 3

 

[PeterC99]

Seems like your skimmer is oversized for your setup. Before adding chemicals, have you tried natural methods like over feeding and turning off your skimmer for part of the day?

 

[Fat_Fender]

Seems like your skimmer is oversized for your setup. Before adding chemicals, have you tried natural methods like over feeding and turning off your skimmer for part of the day?

Yes turned skimmer off for about 2-3 weeks, its normally on a timer only a few hours a day but still had it growing like crazy, started this week feeding twice a day much heavier than normal.

 

[brandon429]

You haven’t tried a rip clean, which has the most cyano cures logged for any fix.


try and find ones we could not cure in one pass

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

that thread has more cyano cures than any thread on the web


the reason a 30 gallon is best for the job is because it’s easy to take apart, and clean, and reassemble skip cycle perfect. The chance of it working is 99%

the chance you have a shocking nice tank after re assembly is 100% we show for six years. That’s maybe three hundred before and after jobs, they are all the same pick any link and message them years after, see if they liked it. There’s two in there we couldn’t fix its like a puzzle hunt to find em though, meshed in with total one pass fixes.