persistent cyano problem

[michael grady]

Hi Guys!

Posting a question for a friend. She has a 10 gallon nono with two small fish and a shrimp. A pretty good amount of live rock. The tank was set up rght out of the box about 5 moths ago.


She actually doe pretty well keeping up with water changes and keeps her feedings to a minimum. She is using LA pellets. Pretty low phosphate in the feed.

I have a 300 gallon system, and test her water for her. Her nitrates are zero and phosphates are near zero.

She is getting persistent large cyano blooms and asked me to quiz you guys to see if you might have any thoughts for her. Anything eat this stuff? What about adding some macro algae?
There is a such a huge diffrence in our two systems, it has me a nit bafffled.

Thanks for your thoghths!

Michael

 

[heathlindner25]

she can always try chemiclean.

 

[picoreefguy]

chemiclean works very well but i would have some seachem matrix seeded and waiting in another tank for after the treatment because its not just targeted at cyano and can harm your biofilter as well.

 

[eric b]

The only way I have ever seen to fully rid a tank of cyano is to increase the flow in the tank if all other parameters are in check. What does the tank currently have for flow? I bet when you look at it where the cyano appears there will be little to no flow in that area. Never treated a tank with anything special to remove it just changed or added more flow and it disappeared on its on!

 

[ringo®]

Where is she getting her water? What kind of skimmer is she running?
You can point a powerhead at it, but that's a temporary fix.

 

[ralph atl]

up until a year ago or so, I would get cyno about 2-3 times a year and treat with chemi-clean. no biggie, and very common with dosing vodka-vinegar.

Phates are at or below 0.024 ppm

Trates are at or below 0.5 consistently.

However, ever since my Tiger Cucumbers split, I was seeing less & less....now at about 1 year mark.

if you use chemi-clean please follow directions "to the T".....or bad things might happen.