So, after seeing many positive posts about Chemiclean, I thought I would try it out. I had some red cyano building up pretty badly in one of my systems. It started to appear when I didn't maintain my GFO for a month or so... anyway, it didn't receded after changing my gfo, so I looked into this product.
Now, almost at the 48 hour mark, most of my zoas/palys are closed up, half of the sps has RTN and will probably be toast by tomorrow. Not RTN as I have seen in the past, the tissue has bleached and erroded so quickly, the polyps are still visible and not sure what to do. Most of what isn't dying is pretty ticked off too...
Is this a result of the chemiclean or a toxin being released from the cyano?
On another interesting note, most of the aptasia seems to be dying...
I'm prepping for a large water change right now and I have turned back on all my filtration and started running carbon. My skimmer wasn't running for two reasons, the first being an equipment issue that trips my surge protector (so system shuts off every now and then, causing the skimmer to wig out), the second being most of the posts I read about said to turn it off as it will overflow due to the increase in surface tension. Anyway, the aeration was limited to my two dursos and the running pumps (and powerheads).
Does anyone have an explanation?
pH 8
Nitrates < 2
Posphates 0
Calcium 420
Alk 10.2 dKh (at bit high, it would have creeped up from my daily dosing).
Now, almost at the 48 hour mark, most of my zoas/palys are closed up, half of the sps has RTN and will probably be toast by tomorrow. Not RTN as I have seen in the past, the tissue has bleached and erroded so quickly, the polyps are still visible and not sure what to do. Most of what isn't dying is pretty ticked off too...
Is this a result of the chemiclean or a toxin being released from the cyano?
On another interesting note, most of the aptasia seems to be dying...
I'm prepping for a large water change right now and I have turned back on all my filtration and started running carbon. My skimmer wasn't running for two reasons, the first being an equipment issue that trips my surge protector (so system shuts off every now and then, causing the skimmer to wig out), the second being most of the posts I read about said to turn it off as it will overflow due to the increase in surface tension. Anyway, the aeration was limited to my two dursos and the running pumps (and powerheads).
Does anyone have an explanation?
pH 8
Nitrates < 2
Posphates 0
Calcium 420
Alk 10.2 dKh (at bit high, it would have creeped up from my daily dosing).
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