Yes it will go away on its own. Every new tank appears to have the right conditions for its proliferation. But not to worry, it will go away. Skimming will not help, but Fighting Conches will eat it. :biggrin:

Most people keep horses in corrals :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz:

Its horrible. Will reducing my photo period have an impact on its growth rate?

Fighting Conches it is, tomorrow can't come fast enough!

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I disagree when I was told to increase my skimming is when it finnaly started to go away. The more skimming I did the faster it went, along with sucking it out.

Well we are already skimming as much as possible, so aside from the fighting conch and skimming is there anything else that I/we can do to make the problem vanish a little faster?

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First off I'd like to note that if is black cyano you have a bigger problem than you think. There was a forum a while ago about cyano that was left unchecked, it began to turn black when the bacteria started to die. This could crash your tank.

In addition to skimming well and siphoning, you might also try "Red Slime remover" which is a powder you can mix and add to the tank to rid it of this evil infestation.

a turkey baster along with taking it out everyday . the red slime that i had was cynao and it lasted for 2-3 months ,but mine was bad. i had a good skimmering going to a euroreef and i ran carbon for atleast 1 month.


mike

p.s i never heard of black cynao

Its not black cyano, its dark red cyano...it is cyano though, not dead, but alive.

The daily regimen is turkey baster in the morning, turkey baster in the evening with lots of skimming in between.

Well Mike, when I kept SW fish in Vancouver in the late seventies, the slime algea we battled was jet black. It was black under the Gro-Lux lamps we used, and in natural sunlight. :eek:

Bah, cyano is no fun. I still get a bit of it now and then. Honestly, the mos efficient way to remove it, is to use airline tubing and siphon it out. Don't let any float around in the tank, be very careful of this, as you are trying to rid the system of it, and leaving leftovers isn't going to solve your problem.

Increase flow to the areas where cyano is growing most too, this helps. And I second the chemical advice, if all else fails, try the red slime remover, or chemiclean.