Cyano outbreak need suggestions

[acolaojr]

Tank is about a year old Cyano started growing rapidly. I've been doing a water change once a week. My RO reservoir for the ATO had high phosphates, I cleaned it out with vinegar. Tested my RODI water had 0 phosphates. Got the phosphates down from .11 to .07. I am running GFO. It looked like I started to win the battle in some locations but now its about to grow over my zoas. Ive used Red slime away in my smaller tank and it worked well. Would this stuff affect my anemone or LPS corals?

 

[jay79]

I've used ultra life red slime works great no effect on my lps or nem, I've had problems in the past with outbreaks because I waited to long to change my sediment filter in my to unit

 

[jackson6745]

Microbe-lift Special blend is a bacterial additive that will consume the cyano, and clean up your tank. It takes several weeks to fully eradicate cyano though. Using antibiotic slime removers kills beneficial bacteria as well, I will never use this stuff again.
I would suggest that you keep lowering your phosphate further if you are already seeing a reduction in cyano. Try vacuuming it out with your next water change. If the cyano becomes a real problem and covered your corals daily, you can do a 3 day black-out. I suggest you google this and decide for yourself.

 

[mqur1963]

use mr tim refresh and waste away but remember you can use but I will use 1/2 dose of what they indicate it will take 8 to 10 days and I will keep lights only mx 8 hr a day for 2 weeks and it should be ok and keep your nitrate and phosphate very low I will get a denigrate system for tank

 

[Clink51]

im about to try Boyd Chemiclean Red Slime Cyano Bacteria Remover due to the same issue you are having... just remember to get airstones!!!

 

[acolaojr]

Did a water change and removed 75%, it came up with ease is that a good sign or is this the norm? I'm going to hold off on red slime romever I read else where that it does kill beneficial bacteria and you can possibly go through a mini cycle. Thanks for the advice. I read somewhere else that the phosphates stay on your live rock and live sand and its near impossible to remove if you don't manually remove substrate and rock. Is this true? If it is how am I able to read phosphates in the water tests? Phosphates are around .07 and my nitrates are at 0.

 

[TRDfan]

Look up cyano solution by precision solutions. When I was dealing with cyano about 9 months ago, I did some detailed research and came across cyano solution. Cleared my system up without any damage to corals within 2-3 weeks. I came accross countless people that had amazing results (pictures to prove it too)

 

[kenconnect]

I had that problem when I 1st set up I used cyano solution worked like a charm.. Hope that helps

 

[evoIX_Reefer]

Like others, I've used red slime remover in the past and worked well. Once I used it and figured what may have caused it. I would never see it again. GFO does wonders in phos though! I'm digging the ROWAPHOS.

 

[acolaojr]

Thanks for all of the advice I'm going to stick with the GFO and water changes see what happens in a weeks time before I add anything to the tank.

 

[acolaojr]

Boyd chemiclean is saying they don't use antibiotics to remove cyano claiming no beneficial bacteria will be affected. Im considering this stuff. I removed a lot of the cyano but it came back ten fold this stuff is growing like crazy. Ive been doing a 10% water change twice a week and it looks like its dying in some areas and spreading in others. Very frustrating. Is this true has there been any claims of system crashes after using this stuff? I'm to nervous to use redslime away after reading about the possible side affects of hurting the good bacteria. I have a 6 foot 125 gallon tank what size air stone do you think I should use?

 

[TRDfan]

Read up on cyano solution on Google or any search engine. You will see countless post on it

 

[Tonyscoots84]

adding such as boyds or cyano blah blah blah will kill beneficial bacteria as well. it will for sometime but guess what it usually comes back unless you get a hold of your tank maintenance and rowaphos phosphate removal media in a phosban reactor. You also should be doing pretty good water changes while sucking out all that cyano. Also make sure all areas of the tank have pretty good water flow.

Adding on of the red slime removers might seem great but in the end usually returns ready to take over

 

[TRDfan]

Not necessarily a tank maintenance issue. I've done quite abit of reading on it and quite a few people got cyano round about the first year mark of the tank set up. I'm not attributing every1s tank to this but that has been a common trend for quite a few people. Either way ppl like myself have used cyano solution and have never gotten it back for months if not years

 

[acolaojr]

Thats weird because I'm just about at the one year mark.

 

[jedimaster1138]

Not necessarily a tank maintenance issue. I've done quite abit of reading on it and quite a few people got cyano round about the first year mark of the tank set up. I'm not attributing every1s tank to this but that has been a common trend for quite a few people. Either way ppl like myself have used cyano solution and have never gotten it back for months if not years

Count me in to that loop. My 120g has been up a few days short of a year. Guess what I'm battling now? Yup.

 

[TRDfan]

Yea I got mine around the 10 month point. Once you get rid of it and have stable parameters after that you should not get it afterwords. GL with what ever solution u guys end up going with

 

[bkstang]

I got a cyano outbreak about 2-3 weeks ago. I did Chemiclean 2 doses. It helped only a little bit, maybe 10%. I decided to do 3 days lights off and it worked extremely well. After 2,5 days the cyano is gone completely. The water is crystal clear. My zoas were covered with cyano and very stressed. After 3 days they look great and cyano from the sandbed and rocks and glass is gone. I have SPS's and a clam too. It didn't effect them. There is huge thread on a different forum about lights off. PM me I will send you a link. I don't want to promote different forums here.

 

[acolaojr]

As soon as the snow stops I'm buying more salt for a water change going to suck out as much of this stuff as I can and go with the Redslime remover. I'll let you know what happens.

 

[acolaojr]

Ok 95% gone. This stuff worked but skimmer went psycho had to shut it off. Everything is alive so far.