Hello Im new, this is my tank 1 month - Page 2

deacon hemp · #11 10-27-2003, 06:53 PM

Bohdi i have some frags for sale right now and as for your cyno problem try to feed your chromis as little as possible right now! i have a wicked bright GSP colony with long polyps thats nice....respond if your interested?

Bodhi · #12 10-27-2003, 08:41 PM

deacon you have a pm, yup Im hardly feeding my fish at all rite now and everything I feed him he eats so thats good I guess, less phosphates I belive. It seems to be gettin a bit better allready, after scrubing rocks and sucking it off the sand. Im not to worried as I understand that this is to be expected, but I still want to deal with it before it gets out af hand.

Buccaneer · #13 10-27-2003, 11:49 PM

In my opinion cyano is mainly due to poor circulation ... what happens as a result is detritus/food buildups that in turn leach phosphates which then feed the cyano bloom ... so take a close look at circulation and see if there is enough water movement so as to maybe prevent it from coming back later on. HTH

Cheers

JoJo · #14 10-28-2003, 12:24 AM

Bob

I think J&L also sells the powerquads for the same price

http://www.jlaquatics.com/cgi-bin/sh...ogno=pc-al2096

Bodhi · #15 10-28-2003, 01:00 AM

thanks rasta, yeah my powersweep is 125gal/hr and the powerhead is 270gal/hr so I have a total of 395gal/hr and this is in a 15gal tank so I think Im ok there. Its probably the food thing wait and see I guess

Bodhi · #16 10-28-2003, 01:16 AM

would a 25% water change help?

Bob I · #17 10-28-2003, 01:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rasta

In my opinion cyano is mainly due to poor circulation ... what happens as a result is detritus/food buildups that in turn leach phosphates which then feed the cyano bloom ... so take a close look at circulation and see if there is enough water movement so as to maybe prevent it from coming back later on. HTH

Cheers

Steve, I am sure you would not say Evan has poor circulation, but as I am sure you noticed he has plenty of cyano. Also some time ago the experts on AquariaCentral claimed exactly opposite to what you said. They blamed too much circulation. As I said, I am sure there are plenty of opinions on causes, but in reality I think we are all guessing. I don't claim to have any answers except for the Chemiclean. It works without any bad effects ESPECIALLY in a small tank.. I would never recommend it for a large tank, as it would not be cost effective.

Jack · #18 10-28-2003, 01:28 AM

I don't understand the guns shooting the little angel...?

Buccaneer · #19 10-28-2003, 01:49 AM

When I first setup my 300G I had poor circulation and ended up with a cyano bloom that was real nasty ( covered everything ) ... my theory behind what happened was too small a skimmer ( at that time ) and not enough circulation to keep the currents moving detritus/nutrients etc out of the tank and into the sump so that the skimmer could remove any excess stuff ... this time around I have a Beckett skimmer that would suck the remaining hair right off your head Bob

and about 8200 gph circulation inside the tank ... only algae problem I had was a little bit of diatoms when it first started up and thats it ( " knock on wood " ... it has been back up again since Feb/03 ) ... now Bodhi has stated that circulation is not a problem so nutrient export is the next culprit in line IMO ( besides Evan may have used the sand from his old reef and stirring up all the nutrients that were in it could easily explain his mini-cyano bloom ) and after that it would be lighting spectrum ( but by the sounds of it the lights are new ... 1 month old )

Fixing the problem of nuissance algae is often a combination of factors I think that have to be eliminated one at a time ... my suggestion as far as circulation was simply from personal experience it was a contributing factor at that time.

Cheers

Bodhi · #20 10-28-2003, 01:53 AM

What about the water change?