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What you guys do with red cyano

nightmarepl

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Hey guys i got this god **** demon again … red cyano on my sand bed and rocks battling it with water changes and siphons doesn’t work…
Phosphates are like zero
Nitrates same thing been dosing nitrates but hasn’t helped …
About to hit it with the meds
What you guys think i should do
 

bigyankfan

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I have used Chemiclean in the past and it worked well for me with no side effects.
 

snowxcross

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Sup Nightmare...

I dont battle it, but have in the past. Sure you can run some chemiclean and be done with it, but the problem is what you described above, you're reading zero's. I'm assuming your Nitrates are close to zero as well. I would stop doing water changes, you could have silicates in there that's feeding the cyano. Kick up the flow to get the stuff moving in your water column. Run your skimmer open 24/7. Lastly dose some healthy bacteria - i like Dr. Tims waste away gel sticks (easy set and forget), Microbacter 7 does the same thing. If you can get a conch snail to churn up the sand bed that would be good too. I know plenty of folks doing chemiclean as monthly maintenance, has other benefits.

Best,
Artie
 

MadReefer

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I agree, nutrients are low. U used posvan to remove phos and silicate. I alis siphoned my sand bed. Get sand sifter goby, hermit crabs or conch to keep sand stirred
 

nightmarepl

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Sup Nightmare...

I dont battle it, but have in the past. Sure you can run some chemiclean and be done with it, but the problem is what you described above, you're reading zero's. I'm assuming your Nitrates are close to zero as well. I would stop doing water changes, you could have silicates in there that's feeding the cyano. Kick up the flow to get the stuff moving in your water column. Run your skimmer open 24/7. Lastly dose some healthy bacteria - i like Dr. Tims waste away gel sticks (easy set and forget), Microbacter 7 does the same thing. If you can get a conch snail to churn up the sand bed that would be good too. I know plenty of folks doing chemiclean as monthly maintenance, has other benefits.

Best,
Artie
Sounds like a plan I’ll look for the snail you think ones enough? 200 gallons, I’ll get the bacteria running and I’ll empty my skimmer and run it cap less starting tomorrow
 

MadReefer

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Check ebay. A guy from FL was selling them pretty cheap. Don't but from anyone in the Carolinas as it not the correct snail.
 

nightmarepl

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Check ebay. A guy from FL was selling them pretty cheap. Don't but from anyone in the Carolinas as it not the correct snail.
You know i never bought from eBay before and a friend of mine bought what was said to be nassarius snails and he got New Jersey mud snails that nuked his tank
 

MadReefer

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You know i never bought from eBay before and a friend of mine bought what was said to be nassarius snails and he got New Jersey mud snails that nuked his tank
Why I said must be FL. I did the same thing as your friend but lucky my tank was fine.
 

nightmarepl

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Sup Nightmare...

I dont battle it, but have in the past. Sure you can run some chemiclean and be done with it, but the problem is what you described above, you're reading zero's. I'm assuming your Nitrates are close to zero as well. I would stop doing water changes, you could have silicates in there that's feeding the cyano. Kick up the flow to get the stuff moving in your water column. Run your skimmer open 24/7. Lastly dose some healthy bacteria - i like Dr. Tims waste away gel sticks (easy set and forget), Microbacter 7 does the same thing. If you can get a conch snail to churn up the sand bed that would be good too. I know plenty of folks doing chemiclean as monthly maintenance, has other benefits.

Best,
Artie
Hey bud so Amazon is out of stock on the gel sticks so i ordered the liquid form, waste away and i got re fresh from Mr Tim’s they recommend doing both during couple day span trying to find some conch snails in the area but still no luck gonna call some local shops tomorrow
 

snowxcross

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Hey do you know what other benefits are they having?
Ya, while running chemiclean a few times a year into your maintenance schedule, you'll notice a few benefits. One is that your fish will stay alive, by that i mean no one is having any mortality issues (at least with what if read out there on the interwebs), that also includes inverts. Corals seem to do better by obviously not being irritated from Cyano. You can sometimes have a benefit of your overflow and plumbing being a bit more cleared out (where light hits). I think just in general we are "against" using it unless absolutely necessary, but why not run it a few times a year and add to a healthy system? Of course if all your parameters are still out of whack, it wont matter. I run every other month a tablet of Cipro. I've never had BJD, but cipro also has some good benefits to a reef tank. Some people do both cipro and chemiclean together. My only problem with chemiclean is your skimmer foams, that's all.
 

ericrodriguez

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Ya, while running chemiclean a few times a year into your maintenance schedule, you'll notice a few benefits. One is that your fish will stay alive, by that i mean no one is having any mortality issues (at least with what if read out there on the interwebs), that also includes inverts. Corals seem to do better by obviously not being irritated from Cyano. You can sometimes have a benefit of your overflow and plumbing being a bit more cleared out (where light hits). I think just in general we are "against" using it unless absolutely necessary, but why not run it a few times a year and add to a healthy system? Of course if all your parameters are still out of whack, it wont matter. I run every other month a tablet of Cipro. I've never had BJD, but cipro also has some good benefits to a reef tank. Some people do both cipro and chemiclean together. My only problem with chemiclean is your skimmer foams, that's all.
I will definitely try this every few months from now on, I’ll research cipro and maybe that one too!;)
 
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