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![]() Sorry to hear Marco
I have to believe you had some underlying condition in your tank, something was sick, infected, dieing or something and that is what was fueling your cyano, chemiclean is an oxidizer so it would probably kill something that was sick or dieing.
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![]() +1......or it could be that perhaps 14 months with minimal water changes are finally catching up with the system.....
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![]() So it only effects one clam and nothing else?
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![]() you had cyano!.....that means excess nutrients!.....
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![]() Maybe I'm confused. I thought clams take in neutrients to grow.
And why would excess neutrients effect one clam negatively but not the others? Some of my corals seem to have benefited in the last month while I've had cyano |
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![]() Clams like nitrates. True.
My last battle with cyano was due to a Cbb which I was purposely over feeding my tank so it would eat. Even though I tested water and got zeros across the board I new there were nutrients in there that were feeding the cyano. I wonder if it was leach from the rocks as a few months before I had a ha outbreak from high po4. Even though the water colomn did not test high in those nutrients the rock and sand could be rich |
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![]() Thanks.
If all fails I'll just do a fowlr and get the clown trigger I've always wanted |
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![]() I think there is more to the equation than that.
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![]() Actually, not at all. I have NEVER had P04 or N03 readings n my tank - I mean NEVER! Not since day one of the tank. I have incredible flow, new bulbs, I under feed my tank, exceptional filtration, there is NO way I should have cyano, yet, it grows in the darkest parts of my tank, on powerheads and in front of the returns of my closed loop. Cyano is a bacteria, not an algae. There are so many different forms and it's next to impossible to know what is feeding it sometimes.
Of course, you need to be sure you do not have excess nutrients. Agreed. But I got Cyano after trying bio pellets and I can't get rid of it, despite trying everything that has been suggested. Even Red Slime Remover. Something is feeding it. Just can't figure out what. The funny thing is, my tank, otherwise is all but perfect. Corals are happy, fish are happy, parameters are spot on and it only grows on the rocks, never the sand. Go figure. |
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![]() Quote:
But have to ask, if you have zero N03 and P04 why are you even using bio pellets?
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