Cyano problem

[Desertranger]

I have been battling cyano for a while now. i have done multiple treatments with chemi-clean and it keeps coming back, or never really goes away. I have just added a u/v light to see if that helps. not sure what else to do. it is a 40g tank with a 10g refugium that is flourishing. my make up water is ro/di @ 0 ppm nitrates and phosphates are both @ 0 via Salifert test kits.

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[Reefing Madness]

Lack of flow.

 

[hejjo]

How old is the tanks?

 

[hejjo]

I got rid of mine by cutting back my lights by a third, feeding less, doing biweekly water changes and when I did I'd suck up as much cyano as I could without disturbing the sand and use a turkey Bastet to blow it off the rocks while running a filter sock. With all that it took me about a month n a half to get rid of it. If u can run some carbon that will speed it up. I recccomend only to use rox .8 carbon. There's a demo of the few versions of carbon by bulk reef supply. After u watch it you'll only use rox from there on. It's a lil more expensive but las twice as long and works twice as hard if not more. Make sure u got good water flow as well. Remember it could take a while to get rid of it u jus have to keep at it n you'll notice lil by lil it will slowly recede. Good luck.

 

[tautog83]

water flow and I used zeobak but I have biopellets, so not sure if that makes a difference..

 

[Desertranger]

right now i have two marinland powerheads but i have a MAXSPECT GYRE XF130 on order

 

[Reefing Madness]

Minimum flow in your tank would be 400gph, and it only goes up from there.