Cannot get rid of cyano!

[RedCoralEdmonton]

did you dilute the chemiclean before you put it in the tank? possible that some touched that coral?

Steve

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by RedCoralEdmonton

did you dilute the chemiclean before you put it in the tank? possible that some touched that coral?

Steve

I diluted it and poured it into the sump.

[RedCoralEdmonton]

Im out of options here.... just trying to figure out why things that work for everyone else never seem to work for you.... mutant tank? haha

Steve

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by RedCoralEdmonton

Im out of options here.... just trying to figure out why things that work for everyone else never seem to work for you.... mutant tank? haha

Steve

its defiantly messed up.

[Nate]

Do you do regular water changes?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by Nate

Do you do regular water changes?

no because there is no need to do water changes if a person has other methods of nutrient export.

i dont have a single patch of hair algae or any other kind of algae in my tank

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

no because there is no need to do water changes if a person has other methods of nutrient export.

i dont have a single patch of hair algae or any other kind of algae in my tank

perhaps you have no algae because the cyano from hell is consuming all the nutrients that arent being exported......the solution to pollution is dilution and no W/Cs = no dilution.....

[Nate]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

no because there is no need to do water changes if a person has other methods of nutrient export.

i dont have a single patch of hair algae or any other kind of algae in my tank

You ask for advice as long as its what you want to hear. Do some water changes I bet your cyano goes away.

I maintain about 50 tanks in Calgary and tend to only get cyano in tanks with too low flow, tanks that have had persistent low kh, and tanks that dont get enough water changes. Water changes and increased flow have solved the problem Every time. And yes, it's at about the 8-14 month mark when you tend to see this problem
Build up.

Do you clean your gravel?

[Cal_stir]

Originally Posted by Nate

Do you do regular water changes?

I do regular weekly 10% water changes, and vacuum the substrate every 2 weeks, run HC GFO, carbon, and maintain balanced ca and alk and mag, change filter socks every 2 days, skim wet, run a sulphur denitrator, but once cyano rears its ugly head your pretty much screwed, you can do water changes til the cows jump over the moon but it just won't work, I'm thankful for chemiclean.

[Cal_stir]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

its defiantly messed up.

Sounds like you did it right, not sure how it could have messed you up, run lots of air to keep oxygen up, chemiclean is an oxidizer so maybe there was an underlying issue with some corals that caused them to die, they may have died in time anyway. See it through, get rid of the cyano and regroup.

Good luck!