Starting my Cyano Adventure

[mike89t]

Been super busy lately and haven't done water changes regularly. Starting to get a massive Cyano outbreak.

45 Gallon Display Tank
20 Gallon Sump

Tank is about 8 months old.

Salinity 1.025
Nitrate 6.3 (Hanna)
Phosphate 0.01 (Hanna)

Sucked out a bunch of the cyano mat last night while I did about a 20% water change. Dosed some Microbacter Clean. Cut back on the white lighting.

I have some ChemiClean. Should I add this? Will the protein Skimmer provide enough aeration if I do?

Any other suggestions?

 

[blaxsun]

Kudos - you earned the coveted "yeeeecch!" of the day award! Nice midas blenny - I miss the yellow in mine (he's turned blue/purple).

 

[Sean Clark]

Single dose of hydrogen peroxide at 2.5ml per gallon. Repeat after 24 hours if nessacary.

Edit: the standard 3% h2o2.

 

[mike89t]

Kudos - you earned the coveted "yeeeecch!" of the day award! Nice midas blenny - I miss the yellow in mine (he's turned blue/purple).

Love my Midas Blenny

 

[131696]

Your ratio is wrong is why algae is starting ,not water changes.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Cyano bacteria. You got this.
D

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I think some diatom as well.
D

 

[mike89t]

Your ratio is wrong is why algae is starting ,not water changes.

What ratio?

 

[New&no clue]

what are you nitrates and phosphates at?

I always use ChemiClean with cyano and it works great... however, I would check parameters first as one time my nutrients were near zero and after the chemiclean they bottomed out so Dinos showed up.

 

[mike89t]

what are you nitrates and phosphates at?

I always use ChemiClean with cyano and it works great... however, I would check parameters first as one time my nutrients were near zero and after the chemiclean they bottomed out so Dinos showed up.

Nitrate 6.3 (Hanna)
Phosphate 0.01 (Hanna)

 

[New&no clue]

You're phosphates are a little low. I would be worried about them hitting zero.

 

[Jekyl]

Refreshing my CuC and dosing live phyto took care of cyano and algae in my tank. All natural and very beneficial.

 

[mike89t]

Did a good cleaning and large water change and then gave the tank a dose of Chemiclean 4 days ago.

Received some Phosphate Supplement, OceanMagik (Live Phyto) and Pods in the mail today.

Going to continue to dose 10 ml of Live Phyto daily. Added Pods to the tank.

Trying to slowly bring up my Phosphate levels so that they are measurable by supplementing "ATI Nutrition P".

Dosing 9ml of Hydrogen Peroxide nightly.

 

[mike89t]

Here is what the tank looks like today after chemiclean and some cleaning: