How to get rid of these red stuff?

[Coralgurl]

Get some sand sifting snails or a diamond goby. My goby won't eat the cyano, but does keep the sand clean of debris. I've got cyano on my rocks and I've been blowing it off and syphoning it out. I have also changed the flow in my tank and this seems to be helping. You may not be able to add more flow, but you can change it around to avoid "dead" spots.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by arash53

Thanks for the help, currently I remove them with hand
Could I get something to eat them?


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not really, if your persistent it will go away, it does not dissapear overnight(well it does but comes right back lol) it takes a few approaches. one solution by its self usually does very little, its a combinations of approaches.


water changes, running gfo and maual removal. like mentioned after doing this do a dose of something like red slime remover etc.

a blackout is also effective.

i never get cyano and i run a nutrient rich system where i target a precise amount of nutrients for coral growth, its not always the nutrients that cause cyano.

things like snail spawns, decaying matter and bad lights can all cause it too.

its always been believed that low flow triggers cyano but were finding out that high flow doesnt help but makes it worse. there are people with sps dominant tanks filled with vortecs that still get cyano like i said the reasons it shows are many and so the approach to getting rid of it has to be many as well since its hard to target exactly what causes it as each tank is different.


if over feeding and low flow cause cyano then i should be covered in it , when i first got into reefing i battled it in every tank , now that i have a solid routine down i havent seen it in years regardless if its a new tank or old one(i too bought a running 5yr old tank and kept the sand)

[arash53]

Originally Posted by reefwars

things like snail spawns, decaying matter and bad lights can all cause it too.
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Be they showed up I saw couple of my snails releasing white stuff in the tank . They did it about an hour and the water gets abut white !! That must be the cuse then!

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[Spyd]

Some claim blue and red Hermit Crabs will eat it, however, all crabs are selective eaters and will eat what they want, when they want...

I suggest purchasing some Nassarius snails as well. They are sand sifters. They will not eat the cyano but they will eat the left over food particles, etc. as well as stir up the top layer of your sand bed.

[arash53]

Originally Posted by Spyd

Some claim blue and red Hermit Crabs will eat it, however, all crabs are selective eaters and will eat what they want, when they want...

I suggest purchasing some Nassarius snails as well. They are sand sifters. They will not eat the cyano but they will eat the left over food particles, etc. as well as stir up the top layer of your sand bed.

I do have couple Nassarius, I am thinking about buying fighting conch


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[Enigma]

I've got a large patch of cyano in my tank on my sandbed. It started while I was on vacation and was not dosing ZeoBak. It is in quite an open area of my tank, which has moderate flow.

I couldn't get any ZeoBak yesterday (and I'm out), and I couldn't find any Microbacter7 (I know I saw it locally . . . I just can't remember where).

I picked up some of Instant Ocean's "Natural Nitrate Reducer" (a polymer) and "BIO-Spira" (live, nitrifying bacteria) as I felt those could be beneficial in reducing the nutrients and thus the cyano. I dosed 50ml of the nitrate reducer and 20ml of the BIO-Spira to my 55 gallon system last night (shut off the skimmer for two hours afterwards).

This morning, the cyano had reduced by about 50%. Maybe it is just coincidence . . . but I'll be dosing 20ml of the BIO-Spira a day for the next two weeks.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by arash53

Be they showed up I saw couple of my snails releasing white stuff in the tank . They did it about an hour and the water gets abut white !! That must be the cuse then!

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yup i can guarantee it, in my old zoa tank the only time i got cyano is when my turbos were spawing, when the babies were born i would get a worse out break.

how long have you been having this issue with cyano?? i would wait a bit and do what your doing before adding any chemicals. i can almost bet its the b reeding cheers

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Enigma

I've got a large patch of cyano in my tank on my sandbed. It started while I was on vacation and was not dosing ZeoBak. It is in quite an open area of my tank, which has moderate flow.

I couldn't get any ZeoBak yesterday (and I'm out), and I couldn't find any Microbacter7 (I know I saw it locally . . . I just can't remember where).

I picked up some of Instant Ocean's "Natural Nitrate Reducer" (a polymer) and "BIO-Spira" (live, nitrifying bacteria) as I felt those could be beneficial in reducing the nutrients and thus the cyano. I dosed 50ml of the nitrate reducer and 20ml of the BIO-Spira to my 55 gallon system last night (shut off the skimmer for two hours afterwards).

This morning, the cyano had reduced by about 50%. Maybe it is just coincidence . . . but I'll be dosing 20ml of the BIO-Spira a day for the next two weeks.

sounds expensive:P

[Cal_stir]

what are your no3 and po4?

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by reefwars

sounds expensive:P

It was! Over $40 for both bottles.

I normally dose nitrifying bacteria, so I'm okay with that expense (I see it as a little bit of insurance). The nitrate reducing polymer isn't something I would normally use, but that was a 1/3 the price of the BIO-Spira so I figured I may as well try it in conjunction with the bacteria.