Effect of Coral Snow on Cyano

[Delphinus]

FWIW, coral snow with or without zeobak never touched cyano for me either.

[Milad]

ive been doing coral snow with water changes mainly because it clears the water so well
i have/had cyano and i went all dark for 48 hours, and did zeozyme every day with zoebak. Lights have been back on for 48hours now and no sign of cyano coming back (SO FAR).
and i run bio pellets.

[Lance]

Didn't work for me.

[cwatkins]

Isn't working for me but I use it for the clarity.

Just removed my GFO and started Bio Pellets yesterday. Hopefully in a couple weeks it'll all be gone.

[Rogue951]

Chemiclean worked for me. That little jar will last years.

[randallino]

I haven't had much luck with C.S.

Just removed my GFO and started Bio Pellets yesterday. Hopefully in a couple weeks it'll all be gone.

cwatkins, Be careful I am at the 3 week mark with Bio pellets and my PO4 is starting to climb up. Started with .05 3 weeks ago now I am at .11 (Hanna). I am running a small amount of GFO to help bring it back down.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by randallino

I haven't had much luck with C.S.


cwatkins, Be careful I am at the 3 week mark with Bio pellets and my PO4 is starting to climb up. Started with .05 3 weeks ago now I am at .11 (Hanna). I am running a small amount of GFO to help bring it back down.

+1 I had the same problem, ended up running GFO concurrently with the pellets because they weren't keeping the phosphates low enough. I ended up giving up on the pellets altogether.

Back to the thread topic, I ended up using chemi-clean as well, worked like a charm. Wasn't overly enthusiastic about the skimmer overflowing for days on end though but it got the job done.

[cwatkins]

Originally Posted by randallino

cwatkins, Be careful I am at the 3 week mark with Bio pellets and my PO4 is starting to climb up. Started with .05 3 weeks ago now I am at .11 (Hanna). I am running a small amount of GFO to help bring it back down.

Thanks for the heads up. I was planning on changing out my carbon this week and when I do I plan to do a layer of carbon then put in a separator, then put another layer of GFO on top.

Do you like the Hanna checker? I'm using an API kit and it's a P.I.T.A.

[frd72]

Originally Posted by Rogue951

Chemiclean worked for me. That little jar will last years.

do you mean last for years, you are still using it even without the presence of the cyano and using it as a preventive measures?

thanks,

[nlreefguy]

I've had problems with cyano every time I've tried biopellets and I've tried three different formulations at several different times and with and without GFO and still had the same problems. I have also had to concede that biopellets just aren't for me!