(Video) Dealing with Cyanobacteria

[Aqua Splendor]

Hello,
I usually don't share my videos on the Generals subcategories of the forum, most of my video are hidden in my thread you can watch here:

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I'm super excited to finally enter in my first Aquarium competition, it's a competition on Nano-Reef.com "365 Day Challenge", I always wanted to participate in this kind of event, this time the timing is good . I wanted to show my aquarium also on Reef2Reef so everyone can see it. My name is...

www.reef2reef.com

But today I thought maybe more of you would be interested so here my video on what happened to my nano reef tank and how I deal with Cyanobacteria, let me know what you think:

 

[shermoen]

Grat video man!! I just got done dealing with cyano followed up by dinoa and it seemed like everything I did to correct it just made it worse. My gorgs barely made it through, I could clean the snot off them and the dinos would cover them back up in just a couple of hours!

Good to see what worked for you. Also gotta say your video/editing skills are awesome and that soundtrack was excellent!!

 

[Courtney Aldrich]

Amazing video. So beautiful and well done.

 

[Aqua Splendor]

Grat video man!! I just got done dealing with cyano followed up by dinoa and it seemed like everything I did to correct it just made it worse. My gorgs barely made it through, I could clean the snot off them and the dinos would cover them back up in just a couple of hours!

Good to see what worked for you. Also gotta say your video/editing skills are awesome and that soundtrack was excellent!!

Keep that maintenance, harass them like they harrassed you .
What I did is a bit of a two punch, manual remove, and adding competitors (which a bit better then I expected)

What play on my side is the fact I have a small aquarium so it's easier to clean (35L - 9g)

 

[Andreas' Reef]

At around 10 minutes you siphoned out cyan from the sand. How did you do that without sucking up Sand?

 

[Aqua Splendor]

When the cyano group together it's like a "skin"

If your syphon is too strong you can reduce it until it's gently enough

 

[Andreas' Reef]

When the cyano group together it's like a "skin"

If your syphon is too strong you can reduce it until it's gently enough

Yeah I have green cyano. It acts kind of like a blanket on the sand. What do you mean by reduce the syphon?

 

[Aqua Splendor]

Controlling the amount of water it syphon, if it syphon a lot I squeeze the tube to reduce the flow

 

[Daniel]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. I actually enjoyed the subtitles over voiceovers!