cyano

Cheers, all! I am moving a pair of clowns and a cleaner shrimp (with a couple of snails) into a new and cycled tank. The current tank has been neglected (by me, not intentionally) and is riddled with cyano, nuisance algae, and flatworms (NOT acropora munching ones, thank goodness.) I have...

Just a thought. I currently have three saltwater tanks running. When I first started out, the tank I bought was used, and I made the mistake of using the sand and rocks from the previous owner. He did mention there was cyano, but at the time I didn’t know what it was (I know, stupid). Now, after...

Hey there! We have been battling a nuisance algae for what feels like forever. I thought I'd post here to get some insight and advice. To give a basic rundown of what we've done so far, we had what we thought was a dino outbreak since we were taught that Cyano is generally red and carpet like...

Nitrates: 5 Phosphates: .04 Going to treat the Cyano with chemiclean if i can't find a natural way to fix this. My sand is always covered in green Cyano, i have tried multiple types of CUC with no luck. The rocks and sand are always green and slimy. I want to add a Sandsifting Goby to my tank...

Hi! I'm relatively new to the hobby, and have a tank running since 10 months. Since march I've been battling what I think has been a mix of cyano and dinos. I've followed the advice from this thread...

I have a 180 Gallon mixed reef tank that has been setup for almost a year now and have been battleing dynos for months now and after doing 2 3 day long blackouts and buying a uv sterilzer I am starting to get desperate, luckily it only forms on the sandbed now but still need any advice. My...

So I have this tank for about 6 months, I had a battle with with Dino’s a month ago and now this purple/brownwish thing appear in my rock I will later put here the parameters.

I’m so close to being ready to put dwarf seahorses in my macroalgae tank… the dinos are gone, the nutrients are stable, the macros are grown out, and the tank is pest free… except for the cyanobacteria. I know that chemiclean would get rid of it, but I’m worried that there may be repercussions...

Need some advice about a friends 125 gal tank that im helping him with. About a month ago i added abunch of corals and tested his tank. 3/28 No3 28.4 Po4 .14 Dkh 7.6 Not bad numbers. I went by last week and his tank is covered in everything gha, cyano etc. So last week i changed 15 gal of...

So I have a display refugium I’ve made a few posts about and I’m battling some cyano in it. I’m thinking about doing a blackout for 72hrs to try to kill the cyano. Will my macro survive that? Or will I just kill it all?

Hello! I have had my Red Sea 350 g2 running for several months now, and I’m definitely entering the ugly stage. Ive been noticing a really nice pod population, but across the past 3 weeks I’ve begun seeing some uglies. I’m not too sure what it is, but I’m assuming cyano or dinos. it’s only...

Hi all, I would like to get your advice about rebooting or not a tank. Mine is 50g that is 1.5 yr old. I started it with dead rock that I boosted with startup bacteria. It had a long nitrite cycle then was all fine. I used to have very tiny patches of dino/cyano/hair (not that expert to...

I’m not too sure what this is but it’s hard to get rid of. My initial thought was that it’s cyano but after 2 doses of chemiclean it seems to just be getting worse. My nitrates are .02-.05 and phosphates are at .006-.008. If anyone knows what this is and how I could keep it at bay I would...

SIGHING OUT LOUD. So, I think im having an issue. I think its my circulation problem, but I'm not 100% sure. There is one section in mg tank that i don't think is getting flow, but i have no idea how I'm going to get flow in that area because my sand starts to move around way too much. This is...

May I ask what kind of dino I’m dealing with here and what else do you see? Thanks!

Just want to verify that this is cyanobacteria in the images below? Tank is over 3 years old, but I replaced the substrate when I switched from a glass to an acrylic tank in June - so for a while I assumed that I had a bit of new tank syndrome. Things seemed to be improving a month or so ago...

So have had this issue for last 3 months. Established tank of over 10 years. Looks like cyan but local FS looked under microscope. Pics and video attached. Chen clean doesn’t work. Used 2 bottles and no change . Sheets like cyan but is a bit fiberous. Has anyone seen this and what do I...

Zoa burned skirt, how to solve this problem? Hello reef comunity I have a problem with a certain frag of zoas. They do open up during the day but they have really small or not existing skirt. During the night they have something that looks like cyano. I thought it was a burn from an amonia...

So I added a significant livestock load of fish and corals recently, we immediately got the following, which led me to believe it is Cyano, but Chemiclean did nothing and was dosed twice in 48 hours (the "algae" got worse it seems, not better, but the red hair-like mats on the live rock...

Hi Guys, Can anyone help ID the algae issue I’m having. I managed to get a video under a microscope, not the best of quality unfortunately. I’m thinking this is dinos and cyano but I’m not 100% sure. Thanks

Recently set up a new tank, and about 2.5 weeks in, started noticing what I believe is dinos. The algae started on the live rocks, but eventually moved onto the sand as well. The substance is a film that covers the rock, and has long hairy strands. Bubbles collect to the ends of the substance...

Hello my tank has been up for about 6 months now ita a 40 gallon breeder, is this cyano?

Hello friends, My 125 has had coral in it for almost a year at this point (coral is light-moderately stocked, 40ish pieces). I have had great success learning on here from other reefers and got my tank dialed in nicely. The one area I haven't been able to get consistent is nutrients...

My tank is covered in cyanobacteria and I've been having some trouble trying to figure out how to beat it. I would like to stay away from using chemi-clean as much as possible. I am waiting to get my clean-up crew through quarantine so that I can add them to the tank and they can help out a...

I have a reasonably new 10 gallons low flow tank, just a return pump no wavemaker This project was intended to be a low maintenance tank, so I haven't been doing regular water changes -- I understand this may be a mistake with the amount of corals/livestock I have in there, but it's hard to...