Dino/Diatom thoughts

noobreefer2 · Apr 14, 2022

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates.

I now have a flame Hawkfish and a yellow wrasse, and the tank looks pretty good except for something that I’ll mention. I ordered a Foxface on liveaquaria, but I’ve had a lot of shipping mishaps so I’m gonna have to wait a few weeks.

I actually think that most of the chryso is gone, but it is replaced with a massive outbreak of cyano. There is a massive red carpet covering the sand and rocks.

I have stopped dosing vibrant and I have put the cheato back in, and I have started doing water changes again. Hopefully by the end of the summer or sooner this algae problem will be solved.

Please ask if you have any questions. Thanks.

noobreefer2 · May 4, 2022

I Might need to start dosing vibrant again lol

Uriken · May 5, 2022

If your going to take the route of using an off the shelf cure I wouldn't go with the Vibrant and instead use the Red Slime Remover as directed. With that and some patience it will help resolve it. I would also revisit the "flow" in the heavy developed spots and see if you can increase it as well.
Best of luck.
Happy Reefing.

ScottB · May 5, 2022

The active ingredient in Vibrant is Busan-77. It is a commercial algaecide for cleaning pools.

Chemiclean and red slime removers are erythromycin based anti-bacterials.

They both do what they are advertised to do. They kill stuff, but do so rather indiscriminately. I believe it makes the biome noisy and unstable.