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Carterfish
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Hey guys I️ just got rid of my cyano outbreak in my tank by changing all filters and siphoning I️t out and water changes to remove phosphate and nitrates. However I️ was looking at my lfs and they have this. The website doesn’t provide much info so just want to know your guys 2 cents for if I️ get a future outbreak
mcarroll
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That looks like a tank treatment...shouldn't be needed.
If it happens again, check in here with the history of the tank that led up to the outbreak, including N and P test results.
There's a good likelihood that either your nitrates or phosphates (or both) were showing zero or near-zero while the cyano was taking off though. With plentiful nutrients in the water, other algae will usually take over.
Age of the tank has a lot to do with it as well as makeup of your CUC.
How old is your tank and what's your CUC like?
If it happens again, check in here with the history of the tank that led up to the outbreak, including N and P test results.
There's a good likelihood that either your nitrates or phosphates (or both) were showing zero or near-zero while the cyano was taking off though. With plentiful nutrients in the water, other algae will usually take over.
Age of the tank has a lot to do with it as well as makeup of your CUC.
How old is your tank and what's your CUC like?
Carterfish
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Well my tank is old. About 10 years and has never really gone fallow. Cuc is emerald crabs, astrea and nassarius snails, variety of blue leg hermits. Also serpent star
mcarroll
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I see one herbivore in there surrounded by carrion-eating omnivores, scavengers and detritivores.
Ditch the crabs and nassarius snails (at least in your mind....they are not herbivores) and get that astrea snail some help!!!!
Do you test NO3 and PO4? What have your test results been like before during and after the last bloom?
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I️ didn’t test the water yet. What do you mean about my cuc? So I️ should get more snails? Especially astrea? I️ mostly just need stuff to eat the fish poop and the little algae every so often. Sandbed is usually white bc of the snails in sand. Anything that eats cyano?[emoji23] heard halloween crabs do I️t. Also conchs? What inverts should I️ add?
