Can anyone confirm if this is cyno?

[Themako1]

I tried chemiclean thinking this was a cyno, didn’t have any effect. I been doing 20% water changes the past few weeks sucking it out but it keeps coming back. If you can’t tell from the pictures it’s red and stringy

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea. I think so. Some cyano is a spirulina , although it's a cyano it doesn't respond to chemiclean to I believe.

 

[SSLVRNBLK]

Definitely!! I used Ultra Life Red Slime remover and it was gone!! Goodluck.

 

[DSC reef]

Looks to be red cyano.

 

[Newtybar]

I changed my salt from Red Sea Coral Pro to Seachem Salinity and mine went away.

 

[Themako1]

I was using aquaforest and recently changed to reef crystals, at first I thought it was my lights because I’m using t5, but the bulbs aren’t that old, maybe 6 months

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Is the alk higher in the new salt?

Is it a young tank?

 

[Themako1]

Tanks about 8 months alk is about 8, little higher then my old salt, but this started with the old salt

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ahh. Think it may be new tank uglies?
Or maybe your feeding aminos or something? Carbon dosing nopox etc.

 

[Danny N]

Going through the same crap. Tank is 3 months old. Just siphoned entire sand bed to manually remove cyano. Hopefully it stays gone this time.

 

[Themako1]

I have gfo and brs rox carbon running

 

[Themako1]

My cyano is finally all gone. What I did was stopped doing water changes added more snails, conch, diamond goby. Then I did 2 doses of chemi clean. The cyano hasn’t been back since. Oh, I also go off gfo and Carbon. I was dosing NoPoX and also stopped that. I think my tank balance was out of wack, my nitrates were under one and phosphates above .1. Now cyano has not returned

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

It was the nonpox. It's bacteria food.