For the past 3 weeks, been dealing with this "Algae" on my sand, I'd turn up my sand to get rid of it, and it would come back within minutes.
So last night, I made a fresh batch on salt water, and let it mix overnight, earlier today I changed 5G of water, and sucked the top layer of sand where all the Algae was with the end of the siphon tube (not the big siphon tube you usually use to clean the sand) my thought was to pull it out directly, so yesterday instead of messing with my sand I let it sit ugly for the whole day, and this morning when I did the water change, pulled it all out in one go.
Since, it has not returned at all anywhere on my sand, which for the past 3 weeks anytime I turned up my sand, within 15 minutes it was back to the way it was right before almost like I had not done anything to the sand, Originally I thought it was DINO's since there would be bubbles where the algae was, but now that I have pulled out the sand covered in the algae it has not returned, this leads me to believe I actually had Cyano, what's weird is the Cyano was a brown color, almost like Diatoms, it was not red or green.
I'll keep an eye on it throughout the week and see if it returns, I am also going to stop dosing my amino acids as I think this was fueling them, the only thing I am dosing is Microbacter7, 5ML per day. Anyone dealing with Cyano, I recommend letting it mat up for a little then just manually remove it.
I checked my phosphates they are around .03, nitrates around 5ppm.
So last night, I made a fresh batch on salt water, and let it mix overnight, earlier today I changed 5G of water, and sucked the top layer of sand where all the Algae was with the end of the siphon tube (not the big siphon tube you usually use to clean the sand) my thought was to pull it out directly, so yesterday instead of messing with my sand I let it sit ugly for the whole day, and this morning when I did the water change, pulled it all out in one go.
Since, it has not returned at all anywhere on my sand, which for the past 3 weeks anytime I turned up my sand, within 15 minutes it was back to the way it was right before almost like I had not done anything to the sand, Originally I thought it was DINO's since there would be bubbles where the algae was, but now that I have pulled out the sand covered in the algae it has not returned, this leads me to believe I actually had Cyano, what's weird is the Cyano was a brown color, almost like Diatoms, it was not red or green.
I'll keep an eye on it throughout the week and see if it returns, I am also going to stop dosing my amino acids as I think this was fueling them, the only thing I am dosing is Microbacter7, 5ML per day. Anyone dealing with Cyano, I recommend letting it mat up for a little then just manually remove it.
I checked my phosphates they are around .03, nitrates around 5ppm.
