cyano

[TheReefGeek]

Yeah I would get as wide and as tall a model as will fit under your stand. I love my needlewheel skimmer with 3 sedra 9000's bubbling away.

He is probably feeding the skimmer with your overflow water, with a valve to controll how much of it goes into the skimmer. That is perfect, sounds like a good designer. Also make sure your sump design takes into account microbubbles. You also want to make sure that if your overflow fails, your tank can take up the volume of water in the return section of your sump so you don't overflow.

[WaterLogged]

Wow your skimmer sound like a pretty mean machine

Thank you for all the tips, I will certainly asses everything you've mentioned to me.

This forum is great, thanks again for the quick responses. I will be posting again very soon....

Mark

[TheReefGeek]

No problem, and welcome to the forum. There is a great community of reefers in Calgary that come on here too, for group buys, and getting used stuff.

[DEAD_BY_DAWN]

Not wanting to push the chemi clean due to it only being a quick fix,all sound advice in regards to finding the root of the problem first,but if you want it gone within 24h try the chemi clean,ive used it at home on my seahorse tanks which do not use a skimmer and have not had any problems with cyano for over four months after useing it.

[WaterLogged]

Actually I might try the chemi clean because my fix is coming (sump,skimmer,fuge) I'm just weary about puting chemicals in the tank.

[DEAD_BY_DAWN]

Just do the water change after treatment and everything will be fine,i have never heard of any negative effects and we sell alot of it.

[Bartman]

I fought Cyano in my nano for ages to no avail. I tried Chemiclean once about 8 months ago and I haven't seen any cyano since then. Everything in the tank stayed very happy (except the cyano). Just turn off your skimmer for a day or two as it will overflow like crazy and aerate the tank by some other means.