Alrite so ive been battling cyano for about a couple weeks now and i cant seem to find the source of the problem i dont believe its over feeding i feed pellets in the morning and mysis or brine at night and Monday Wednesday and Friday i do reef energy a and b and phtyo and oysterfeast for the corals i do my weekly water changes 10% i dont believe its water flow but i may be wrong. Are there any way i can do test for cyano to see like if a certain parameter could be out of wack thats making this outbreak?
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IMO it doesn't look like cyano but just some diatoms.
This copied from our good friend @twilliard, just read up and give it a shot.
"Here is the thing about what you are seeing.
It is one of 2 things
Cyanobacteria or spirulina
Now these 2 different things have 2 different treatments
Can you rid your tank of these? Yes
Here is a test to know what you have
Take a small section of the problem area
Put that in 2 cups of tank water
Add 1ml of h2o2 to that container
Wait 24 hours
If the water turns a pink color and the tested section green it's cyanobacteria
If it doesn't do any change its spirulina"
This copied from our good friend @twilliard, just read up and give it a shot.
"Here is the thing about what you are seeing.
It is one of 2 things
Cyanobacteria or spirulina
Now these 2 different things have 2 different treatments
Can you rid your tank of these? Yes
Here is a test to know what you have
Take a small section of the problem area
Put that in 2 cups of tank water
Add 1ml of h2o2 to that container
Wait 24 hours
If the water turns a pink color and the tested section green it's cyanobacteria
If it doesn't do any change its spirulina"
Fudsey
Jack of all trades, Master of none ;-)
@twilliard usually will let you send him a sample of it and he will put it under a microscope.
alrite i was able to get some off a rock put it in a container added some h202 waiting game now my question is im bout to do a water change should i or should i wait its been about a week since i last did one
Alrite so ive been battling cyano for about a couple weeks now and i cant seem to find the source of the problem i dont believe its over feeding i feed pellets in the morning and mysis or brine at night and Monday Wednesday and Friday i do reef energy a and b and phtyo and oysterfeast for the corals i do my weekly water changes 10% i dont believe its water flow but i may be wrong. Are there any way i can do test for cyano to see like if a certain parameter could be out of wack thats making this outbreak?
Follow these steps to help find the source
twilliard
Tank pests..
It's cyanobacteria my friend
OOOH that's a killer I hated the stuff. I used a product on it and it pretty much eradicated all of the stuff. I forgot what it is called but I will tell you when I get home. I would look at @twilliard 's thread first though since he is pretty much a god at this part of reefing and will know best!
Cheers
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p.pep85
got more salt then money
your in good hands here. the only thing i can add is when i was using reef energy a and b i had a huge cyano prob. after i stopped using it cyano was gone after about 3 weeks of regular water changes.
twilliard
Tank pests..
I would bet it was spirulina ;)
Cyanobacteria once established doesn't care about its surroundings. It is highly adaptable to most any condition.
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