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Originally Posted by tang daddy
Are you saying you had cyano and dosed mb7 and it went away?
If so could you share your tank specs, how much you dosed and weekly routine on tank maintanence. Also how long it took for the cyano to dissappear.
Just curious because it didn't seem to get better for me, more like worse.
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No, please read my posts again. MB7 is a preventative, not a cure.
I inherited a 100g SW tank a few years (with a house we bought), that was full of everything bad, algae, cyano, aiptasia, you name it. Spent several hours every week, scrubbing rocks with a toothbrush, and pulling out algae and cyano, and vacuuming the gravel. I should have taken it down and started over. But it had some nice fish in it, and full of soft and lps corals. So, I decided to try and rehabilitate it. As I mentioned it had high phosphates and nitrates, so I decided to tackle the nitrates first.
I did a lot of research on RC and elsewhere, and decided to go the bio pellet route with MB7. I started slowly (very important) and it took several months before I was getting decidedly positive results. I then increased my bio pellets (and dosed MB7 as required), and took almost a full year before I finally achieved zero nitrates. Then I tackled the P04, which was still high, and took another 6 months or so before I got that down to zero with the help of GFO.
If I did it again, I am sure I could speed up the process. There was some trial and error, and it took me a while to confirm the positive effects of MB7. But what I learned, is to dose it heavily when adding more bio pellets and any sign of cyano (which does happen from time to time, esp when I get lax with the MB7).
My 100g tank has had zero nitrates for over a year now, and near zero phosphates for 8+ months. I added SPS late last year, and it is doing great, now requiring some major pruning and have frags available (anybody want some?). So am very happy with how the tank is now doing.
One day (maybe this fall) I should do a tank journal starting from 3 years ago. There is a lot more to the story, than I have time to post here. But I should mention that I have recently combined this tank and another 130g (that still had higher phosphates and nitrates) into one sump, so that was another little challenge. But it all worked out great, and now both tanks have zero N03, and near zero P04. And no Cyano...