Back story:
~16.5 gallon tank
I figured at first that this was just part of "the ugly phase" and I am ok with it if it is. But I kinda just don't know 100% what to do next.
I first poured water in my tank on June 13th. Did a fritz Turbostart cycle which was awesome. About 2 weeks ago, maybe I started noticing in the front of my tank, the sand was turning reddish. I asked my buddy and he said it was probably diatoms. I did a little research, and agreed. We were in the first part of getting ugly. Then (I am assuming because of the flow in the tank) it started to get some long hair...
Asked my buddy again and through looking on here we figured it to be cyano.
Anyways, things I have done to try to mitigate this stuff:
-Dropped the light to nearly black out most of the day, pretty much just enough to keep my zoas happy.
-found out I was feeding my two clowns WAY too much, so cut back on that significantly.
-Adjusted the flow in my tank (direction/location of powerhead)
-clean glass, knock off as much as I can from rocks, pull up as much as I can from the sand bed daily
-Change filter floss (AIO tank, so I am using batting for mechanical filter) once a week
-about 30% water change weekly
-this past Friday I started my CUC - 3 trochus, 3 nassarius, 4 white tipped cerith, 3 dwarf blue legged hermits
Throughout all of this, my ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites are at zero, testing nearly daily, (sometimes every other day)... Yes, maybe overkill, but I'm not trying to crash anything.
so now here we are... Not much else I can do without adding chemicals or stuff into my tank. I've seen stuff about hydrogen peroxide dosing (1ml per gal every 8 hours) but don't know if there is anything else I can do before that
~16.5 gallon tank
I figured at first that this was just part of "the ugly phase" and I am ok with it if it is. But I kinda just don't know 100% what to do next.
I first poured water in my tank on June 13th. Did a fritz Turbostart cycle which was awesome. About 2 weeks ago, maybe I started noticing in the front of my tank, the sand was turning reddish. I asked my buddy and he said it was probably diatoms. I did a little research, and agreed. We were in the first part of getting ugly. Then (I am assuming because of the flow in the tank) it started to get some long hair...
Asked my buddy again and through looking on here we figured it to be cyano.
Anyways, things I have done to try to mitigate this stuff:
-Dropped the light to nearly black out most of the day, pretty much just enough to keep my zoas happy.
-found out I was feeding my two clowns WAY too much, so cut back on that significantly.
-Adjusted the flow in my tank (direction/location of powerhead)
-clean glass, knock off as much as I can from rocks, pull up as much as I can from the sand bed daily
-Change filter floss (AIO tank, so I am using batting for mechanical filter) once a week
-about 30% water change weekly
-this past Friday I started my CUC - 3 trochus, 3 nassarius, 4 white tipped cerith, 3 dwarf blue legged hermits
Throughout all of this, my ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites are at zero, testing nearly daily, (sometimes every other day)... Yes, maybe overkill, but I'm not trying to crash anything.
so now here we are... Not much else I can do without adding chemicals or stuff into my tank. I've seen stuff about hydrogen peroxide dosing (1ml per gal every 8 hours) but don't know if there is anything else I can do before that