Treefer32
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I thought it was new tank syndrome, so I dismissed the amount of Cyano I have in my 350 gallon display. However, my tank is now 18 months running, with a light fish load of around 15 fish. I've defeated Bryopsis with Reef Flux. However the amount of Cyano hasn't changed.
Some of what I've done - Make sure my skimmer is skimming wet. I run an algae turf scrubber. Feed more (feed on average 5-8 cubes of frozen food a day) My fish are larger and some of them can each eat a cube by themselves - especially my dragon wrasse, he swallows a whole cube by himself.
I do 15% water changes every other week with IO salt. I run a very under powered UV sterilizer - 38 watt, and a Diablo DC skimmer rated for 500 gallons. I noticed a slight decrease having all of my powerheads operational - 2 Skimz S18s and 2 MP 40s. But, there's still a lot of Cyano mostly on the sand bed, but it seems to collect and grow on my corals as well. Killing Frog spawn heads, and branches of some of my SPS.
Before I use something like Chemiclean to just kill the Cyano, is there something else I should be doing to control it? Last i checked a couple weeks ago my nitrates were in the 8 range (red sea Pro test kit) and phosphates in the .08 range (also red Sea Pro test kit).
Alk is 8.0dkh, calcium is 500, salinity 1.025. Temp I upped to between 77 and 78.5. I run 3 Hydra 52s, around 12 hours a day with 4 hour ramp up and 4 hour ramp down and 4 T5HO coral+ bulbs that run around 9 hours a day.
The cyano releases every few days and clumps up on my overflow screens. Then grows back on the sand bed, corals, and rinse and repeat every 3-4 days. Increases, then releases, then decreases, then increases, releases, etc.
I've defeated all other algae, just the cyano a d several thousand Aiptasia. That's a different issue and one I'm going to have to attack as well. I was prioritizing the Cyano first, if I am managing the cyano and algae, then, I can move on to targeting the aiptasia agressively.
Some of what I've done - Make sure my skimmer is skimming wet. I run an algae turf scrubber. Feed more (feed on average 5-8 cubes of frozen food a day) My fish are larger and some of them can each eat a cube by themselves - especially my dragon wrasse, he swallows a whole cube by himself.
I do 15% water changes every other week with IO salt. I run a very under powered UV sterilizer - 38 watt, and a Diablo DC skimmer rated for 500 gallons. I noticed a slight decrease having all of my powerheads operational - 2 Skimz S18s and 2 MP 40s. But, there's still a lot of Cyano mostly on the sand bed, but it seems to collect and grow on my corals as well. Killing Frog spawn heads, and branches of some of my SPS.
Before I use something like Chemiclean to just kill the Cyano, is there something else I should be doing to control it? Last i checked a couple weeks ago my nitrates were in the 8 range (red sea Pro test kit) and phosphates in the .08 range (also red Sea Pro test kit).
Alk is 8.0dkh, calcium is 500, salinity 1.025. Temp I upped to between 77 and 78.5. I run 3 Hydra 52s, around 12 hours a day with 4 hour ramp up and 4 hour ramp down and 4 T5HO coral+ bulbs that run around 9 hours a day.
The cyano releases every few days and clumps up on my overflow screens. Then grows back on the sand bed, corals, and rinse and repeat every 3-4 days. Increases, then releases, then decreases, then increases, releases, etc.
I've defeated all other algae, just the cyano a d several thousand Aiptasia. That's a different issue and one I'm going to have to attack as well. I was prioritizing the Cyano first, if I am managing the cyano and algae, then, I can move on to targeting the aiptasia agressively.
