Help me diagnose and solve please

[Dillpickle]

This has take over my tank over the past couple of months and I have been told many different things and I need help. This is a new tank almost a year old and it’s a 70 gallon.

 

[Daddy-o]

To really help, we are going to need your parameters?

 

[TheShrimpNibbler]

This has take over my tank over the past couple of months and I have been told many different things and I need help. This is a new tank almost a year old and it’s a 70 gallon.

Do you mean the red stuff or the green stuff?

 

[Bryce M.]

I see dinos and cyano

 

[Dillpickle]

Ph:8.1
Ammonia: 0-.25
Nitrites: Near 0
Nitrate:~2ppm

 

[Dillpickle]

Do you mean the red stuff or the green stuff?

Both

 

[Bfragale]

Ph:8.1
Ammonia: 0-.25
Nitrites: Near 0
Nitrate:~2ppm

What about phosphates?

 

[Daddy-o]

Is there anything alive in your tank?

 

[TheShrimpNibbler]

Looks like Cyano and a calcareous green algae to me.

 

[Greg P]

Tell us about your system - tank size, sump or not, skimmer, in-tank flow pumps etc
WC schedule and volume, maintenance etc
The more info the better in point form for ease of reading !!
My eyes glaze over when people start writing paragraphs of info

 

[Daddy-o]

That tank needs a heavy siphon

 

[Dillpickle]

I have a canister filter looking to replace soon
I have a yellow tang a blenney 2 domino damsels a clownfish a pajama cardinal
I’m getting my phosphates tested today

 

[Dillpickle]

Phosphates came back at 0

 

[brandon429]

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

read that thread for just 30 minutes it shows you how to disassemble a dirty tank and three hours later reassemble a perfectly clean tank. Your tank will look opposite as it does now, with no delay.

 

[Greg P]

Having little to no phosphates and nitrates can quite often allow cyano to thrive