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OK, I've been running a sochting oxydator for several weeks now and my cyano appaears to be getting worse. The only effect I have noticed from the Sochting is my ORP rose up to 450+. I am going to pull the Sochting and start dosing peroxide directly as instructed on this post.
I'm still a bit confused by my Cyano problem. I run my tank cool at 76, my ph high at 8.3 and have a ridiculous amount of flow (4x570gph power heads, 2xMP40s, gyre 150 and my return pump is pulling 1,500gph all in a 150g tank). This is not a recipe for cyano from everything I have read where it thrives. My phosphates test in at .02 to .06 with hannah (+/- .04) and my nitrates never register. I am aware just because I am testing zero, does not mean I don't have a nitrate issue just that the algae and corals are consuming it all. With that, my tank is very clean. My sump and FT are whistle clean, I don't run filter socks. I simply have no nitrate factories that I am aware of. I feed primarily LRS reef frenzy and occasionally NLS pellets. Once a week I feed powdered coral food (Reef chili, reef roids or cyclopeeze). I don't dose aminos or anything for that matter. I do not run carbon or GFO either. My bulbs are brand new as I just bought an ATI LED Hyrbid and my light cycle is shorter than usual and I do have the light higher up at 12" than I plan on running while I acclimate to the new light. The par is still higher than what I had previously.
Anyway, I am starting dosing tonight. I'll take some pics and post my progress. Thanks!
I'm still a bit confused by my Cyano problem. I run my tank cool at 76, my ph high at 8.3 and have a ridiculous amount of flow (4x570gph power heads, 2xMP40s, gyre 150 and my return pump is pulling 1,500gph all in a 150g tank). This is not a recipe for cyano from everything I have read where it thrives. My phosphates test in at .02 to .06 with hannah (+/- .04) and my nitrates never register. I am aware just because I am testing zero, does not mean I don't have a nitrate issue just that the algae and corals are consuming it all. With that, my tank is very clean. My sump and FT are whistle clean, I don't run filter socks. I simply have no nitrate factories that I am aware of. I feed primarily LRS reef frenzy and occasionally NLS pellets. Once a week I feed powdered coral food (Reef chili, reef roids or cyclopeeze). I don't dose aminos or anything for that matter. I do not run carbon or GFO either. My bulbs are brand new as I just bought an ATI LED Hyrbid and my light cycle is shorter than usual and I do have the light higher up at 12" than I plan on running while I acclimate to the new light. The par is still higher than what I had previously.
Anyway, I am starting dosing tonight. I'll take some pics and post my progress. Thanks!