I started my tank about 3 months ago (give or take a few weeks) and I am now having a cyano outbreak. Long, stringy, red slime. Its a 55 gallon, odd dimension, cuboid tank. I added some more astreas to cut down on some of the algae while I deal with manually removing the cyano. I scrub it off the rocks with a toothbrush almost everyday, and on water change days I really go to town on it. I've been dealing with it now for about two weeks or so. Any advice on how to get through it? I just cut back on my lighting yesterday to see if it ends up helping at all. I think it may be caused by my phos being totally bottomed out at 0. I am running carbon and gfo in the BRS mini reactor down in the sump. What do you guys think?
Parameters:
Alk: 9.2
Calc: 420
Mag: 1380-1400
Nitrates: between 3 and 5 ppm
Phos: 0-0.1
Stocking:
6-8 inch snowflake eel
3 Tonga Fighting Conchs
5 Nassarius Snails
15 Astrea Snails
Parameters:
Alk: 9.2
Calc: 420
Mag: 1380-1400
Nitrates: between 3 and 5 ppm
Phos: 0-0.1
Stocking:
6-8 inch snowflake eel
3 Tonga Fighting Conchs
5 Nassarius Snails
15 Astrea Snails