Cyano?

[Biff0rz]

Hi folks, I'll start by saying I've had cyano before. This current rendition is not like previous outbreaks. Previously it was very red, sheets of it, and would cover rocks and sand. I could use a baster and blow it off the rocks and it'd come off in big red sheets.

Today's version is just as red, more present on sand than rocks but the rocks have a lot too. It's blows off easily, but, not like sheets. Small particulates. It's also irritating sps and LPS (a lot).

Does the current version sound like cyano? I'm also wondering if this is some form of dino. But the dino I've dealt with was mostly brown and stringy with lots of bubbles rising up.

 

[Uncle99]

Pictures?

 

[Biff0rz]

Pictures?

 

[Uncle99]

I see Cyano and maybe golden Dino’s.
What’s the age and nutrient levels in that system.

 

[Biff0rz]

I see Cyano and maybe golden Dino’s.
What’s the age and nutrient levels in that system.

Thanks. What the heck are golden dino's??

Aprox 5yrs, po4 is 0.11 no3 is 10-15. I run moonshiners and do icp's.

I recently ran 5 rounds of interceptor (5 weeks, stopped 2 weeks ago) which caused this to happen. I didn't listen to my gut to stop it sooner wanting to rid white bugs - I sort of saw this coming but it did get really bad after the 5th treatment. So here I am, trying to solve this now.

 

[Uncle99]

Thanks. What the heck are golden dino's??

Aprox 5yrs, po4 is 0.11 no3 is 10-15. I run moonshiners and do icp's.

I recently ran 5 rounds of interceptor (5 weeks, stopped 2 weeks ago) which caused this to happen. I didn't listen to my gut to stop it sooner wanting to rid white bugs - I sort of saw this coming but it did get really bad after the 5th treatment. So here I am, trying to solve this now.

Suck out any you can, water change and carbon to start. It’s a mature system with trace nutrients availability so it will recover. You likely lost some bacteria and algae to the treatment so adding some to boost is fine.

Should recover but with take a bit.

Very common Dino’s the golden type.

I’d pull out the interceptor with activated carbon and some water changes and let that system stabilize.

 

[Biff0rz]

Suck out any you can, water change and carbon to start. It’s a mature system with trace nutrients availability so it will recover. You likely lost some bacteria and algae to the treatment so adding some to boost is fine.

Should recover but with take a bit.

Very common Dino’s the golden type.

I’d pull out the interceptor with activated carbon and some water changes and let that system stabilize.

Thanks, this helps. Do you think it's worth doing chemiclean for the cyano? I have some good bacteria I can dose, so I'll do that and started carbon and did 1 w/c. I'll do another w/c next week.

 

[Uncle99]

Thanks, this helps. Do you think it's worth doing chemiclean for the cyano? I have some good bacteria I can dose, so I'll do that and started carbon and did 1 w/c. I'll do another w/c next week.

Me, I would do a chemi clean first, Cyano is an easier target. Then, after treatment, let’s see what remains.

Keep water well oxygenated through the treatment period, then activated carbon.

If some other algae type pest remains deal with that after Cyano.

Let the system get back in balance with parameters remaining on point. It’s the good guy stuff you want to populate, these guys keep rocks clean and sand white.

But they are a bit slow to get in good numbers, but they come.