nasty nasty cyano problem please help

[mustang420colvin]

I have had cyano problem now for about three weeks and with numerous waterchanges, reducing feeding to every other day and reducing the hours of lighting to just 6hrs a day and still a bad problem. Please can someone give me so advice. I dont want to tare down and start over but am about to that point.

Chris

 

[Anonymous]

Patience Grasshopper

Bryan

 

[mooner]

I know where you are coming from. I have been fighting dinos for a while now. It's no fun but I have learned a lot.

Some questions: How old is your tank? What animals inhabit it. What kind of protein skimmer do you use? Does it pull out good skimmate? What additives do you use? What are your parameters?

Anything you can provide will help...

 

[mustang420colvin]

my tank is about 6 months old and i have two tomatoe clowns two blue dams. a diamond back goby 40lbs LR about 3.5 inch sand bed.
0 dectectable NH3 10ppm NO2 and NO3
should i just give it more time or should i do something drastic. I dose eco systems reef solutions and seachem reef complete and reef calcium

 

[mustang420colvin]

also have about 20 nassurai snails( or however you spell that) about a half dozen hermits and 6 turbo snails

 

[Anonymous]

I had cyano, all over my DSB, couldn't stand it, everyone told me to wait,

I put in 20 blue legs, and in about a month the last of it was gone, I never saw any of them eat it though, I did severely limit the feedings, and my lights are on for 8 hours

Oh, I remember one other thing, I had 2 year old bulbs, I changed them at the same time it disapppeared.

HTH

Bryan

 

[mountainbiker619]

What is your water sourse, ro/do, lfs? Have you checked water source with TDS meter?

 

[mooner]

I agree with above post.

Keep that skimmer pumping (what kind u got?), beef up your cleanup crew, keep watching your nutrients and stay on the water changes.

BTW, what water are you using? Do you make your own RO/DI? If not I'd do that too to eliminate any possibility of an input there.

Good luck.

 

[mustang420colvin]

i have a 4 stage aqua fax RO/DI that test 0ppm on a TDS meter

 

[mustang420colvin]

i have a aqua c remora and it is not working properly right now but i am working on that problem seperatly

 

[danmhippo]

Have you seen much of snail/hermit die-off? If so, did you attempt at removing the dead/dying snails/hermits from the system?

10ppm nitrite is not a good thing to have...............

 

[mustang420colvin]

have had a few die and have not removed them thought that the hermits would take care of them as it seems they try and eat them while they are alive

 

[Anonymous]

Danmhippo is right 10 ppm Nitrite is bad, that should be 0 if the tank is done cycling, unless you have something decaying in the tank. I missed that before. Get out anything dead, and get that skimmer cranking, its a good one, Ihave the Remora pro

Bryan

 

[-JB]

run lots of carbon (swap it out every 48 hours), skim like mad and try to water change everyother day.

 

[shalegac]

Anyone heard of or used Boyd's Chemi-Clean? Brandon429 mentioned it in a post not to long ago.

 

[Anonymous]

My Turbos eat that stuff(they eat my hair algae too)..........how large are your Turbos? I also use Phosphate Sponge. Do not start over! You wiil still eventualy have to deal with this again. Welcome to the Land of Marine Aquaria...ain't it fun!

 

[skkyy]

I did waterchanes every other day and vacummed as much stuff as I can then I added this stuff called red slime I got at my LFS to my tank and low and behold a couple days later gone.

 

[Anonymous]

I did waterchanes every other day and vacummed as much stuff as I can then I added this stuff called red slime I got at my LFS to my tank and low and behold a couple days later gone.

Red Slime?????

 

[mustang420colvin]

bump

 

[EmilyB]

It seems that sometimes too much water changing can fuel cyano.

I had increased the size of water changes, and that is when it first appeared, although I'm sure there were other factors. I am really anal about water quality tho. I replaced every single thing on my RO/DI and then found out I probably could have bought a new one for that much $$....

I started just netting out the patches, (mind you mine was mostly on the sand). I went back to 13% water changes. ..... :lol: and it is almost totally gone.

I did treat the small tanks with Boyds, and it worked very well. I try to be careful about cross contamination now, but I don't know if that is really an issue ? :?