Moving coral frags with cyano

[mmbaba]

I recently purchased a bunch of coral frags and have been attempting to acclimate them in my nano (13.5G) tank for the past 3 months while my 100G system is getting settled in. The nano tank is pretty mature (I’ve had it 4 years but relocated it 1 year ago), whereas the 100G is now only about 9 months old and I had planned to give it time to develop before putting too much new stuff into it.

Anyhow, my nano tank is going through a really bad cyano phase (not for the first time) that I just can’t get under control, and the corals are not doing well.

I’d like to move the frags to my larger tank, where a small number of corals are actually doing really well, but I don’t want to transport the cyano with them.

Is there any treatment I can do to the frags to clear them of the cyano, before putting them into my larger tank?

I normally dip all of my coral in Iodine before adding them to a tank, but I have no idea if that will help with cyano. That red stuff is such a PITA!

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[19Mateo83]

Have you tried the coral snow spiked with microbacter7? It helps out a ton when cyanogen pops up in my lower flow areas.

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[mmbaba]

@19Mateo83 - I hadn’t, but I’m ready to try anything in the nano, thanks…

Still looking for a way to treat the frags before moving them into the larger tank, if anyone has any ideas…

Thanks!

 

[Jekyl]

Cyano comes off very easily. I would just use a turkey baster or siphon and remove before transfer.