cyano

SJSobczyk · #1 06-01-2006, 04:41 PM

Keep vacuuming out the red slime and keep up with RO water changes. Watch out how much and frequently you are feeding. Make sure you rinse the frozen food in RO before you feed (if you are feeding frozen). Try and only feed every second or third day. Make sure you overskim the tank, even if it is pulling out some tea coloured water.

Let us know how it goes!

Steve

DEAD_BY_DAWN · #2 06-01-2006, 04:49 PM

chemi clean is the answer for you it's quick simple and works great and costs less than $20.00.
I have used it many times on customers reefs etc and never had any problems,
also agreed the prizm is a weak skimmer,might want to think about upgrading in the future.

WaterLogged · #3 06-01-2006, 04:53 PM

Thanks all for the quick reply's. I'll try everything to get this under control. This chemi clean..... is that just a quick fix? I know my skimmer isn't that great, I am upgrading soon. Sorry for all the questions but what would be the purpose of rinsing the frozen food?

Thanks again

Mark

TheReefGeek · #4 06-01-2006, 04:59 PM

The purpose of rinsing out the frozen food is to get rid of the excess nutrients in the frozen water/juice that would otherwise end up in your tank.

Your choice on chemi clean, I prefer to get rid of the cause, it is just a quick fix, it will come back. But some people get rid of the cause as well, and use it to make their tank nicer in the meantime. I just dont like adding chemicals to my reef.

How big is your tank? What is your stock like?

WaterLogged · #5 06-01-2006, 05:09 PM

Tank is a 90 gal. I only have 2 blue damsels and 1 yellow tail wrasse. 40 lbs. live rock so far, 4 " dsb. 3 maxi jet 1200's, skimmer and fluval 404 adding flow as well. Fluval has no media in it, except phosphate sponge.lighthing is outer orbit 48" 2 x 150 hqi , 2x dual actinics 95 watt i think, moon lights. Total 530 watts per gal. Issue got worse when new lighting came but i expected that. Wouid it hurt anything to just shut the lights off until the red is gone?

WaterLogged · #6 06-01-2006, 05:11 PM

I also just put in some red garcilia??? spelling? Just in the main tank until I get a sump on order for July. Is that even going to help the problem. Thought it may compete with the cyano for nutrients.... I dont really want to shut the lights off for that reason. I dont want to kill my nice macro algae.

TheReefGeek · #7 06-01-2006, 05:14 PM

Your bio-load is small, just keep up on water changes, and add more live rock, im sure you know you need more, 90-150lbs or so. Add is slowly or cure it in a container first or you will spike your tank with die-off from the rock.

For 3 fish they won't need much to eat, you are probably over-feeding. Feed small amounts, and make sure they eat it all, then give them a bit more.

TheReefGeek · #8 06-01-2006, 05:18 PM

Keep your lights on.

How often, and what % do you do water changes currently.