Hi -
I am cross posting a link to my tank build. Things were going great for the first year, and a combination of lapse in maintenance + CUC Deaths and other issues created a massive GHA and Cyno issue in my tank. It essentially smothered out all Coral and rock. I am looking for feedback on remediation plan.
Over the last week, I have done a few deep cleans and vaccumed out a lot of the GHA (although it still bounces back, albeit slower now).
Action Plan (in progress)
I am cross posting a link to my tank build. Things were going great for the first year, and a combination of lapse in maintenance + CUC Deaths and other issues created a massive GHA and Cyno issue in my tank. It essentially smothered out all Coral and rock. I am looking for feedback on remediation plan.
Over the last week, I have done a few deep cleans and vaccumed out a lot of the GHA (although it still bounces back, albeit slower now).
Action Plan (in progress)
- Daily dosing of Microbac Clean + Razor (per instructions). Goal is to loosten up agae for easier removal - in progress over next 2 weeks
- Vacuuming GHA every 2 days (next 2 weeks, or until GHA is gone) - in progress
- Will take toothbrush to rocks for really stuck on algea
- Replace underperforming IM Skimmer with IceCap K1 - Complete
- 20% Water changes every 2-3 Days (for next 2 weeks, or until N levels are stabilized)
- Restocked 3x Turbo Snails - Complete
- Re-configuring rockscape (reducing # of rocks, moving rocks away from glass) - in progress
- Reduced lighting to 40%, removing Reds and Greens completely (next 8+ weeks)
- If Cyno doesn’t get under control, will consider dose of Chemiclean
- Feeding Schedule will only be frozen shrimp (no flakes)