How to remove cyano (red slime algae) from a reef tank.
Reef tank 9 years ago 121,682 views
All you need to know about cyano. You need 20-30 times your tank volume per hour of flow. If power heads are old, and not giving the flow you need then replace them. I can't tell you which methord or methords to use, that is the difficult choice you have to make. Magnesium levels of 1,600 can kill the cyano, but it can take upto 3 months. Phosphate levels in a reef tank should be 0.03 or below.
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I have a mixed tank of softies and just a few fish. Very light bioload. Just noticed some cyano a couple weeks ago so I did a 50% WC and vac up most of it just to buy some time to research.
This is the First info I found explaining in depth how this bacteria behaves. And what the dosing is and how those react to the bacteria and tank.
Thanks So much for making this video.
Im going to take my time, buy a light meter, vac out my sections of my sandbed 3-4 times a week and get a better skimmer. And be patient.
Thanks for the reply.
Did you have a refugium on the tank you took action with?
I dont have one setup yet.
10. comment for How to remove cyano (red slime algae) from a reef tank.
Is English your primary language? If not, then skip my suggestions below, as I know it's tough to be consistent in a secondary language.
If English is your primary language, you should have someone help edit your text. There isn't a grouping of text slides that doesn't have a spelling, grammatical, or punctuation error. In most, there are multiple errors.
Just because brilliant people could not spell doesn't mean you can't. You spell "oxygen" correctly multiple times but then revert to "oxigen" in the next slide.
The guy could have a PhD in biology but is terrible at English.
Do you drop your general practitioner because the handwriting on your prescriptions are illegible?
The video clearly suggest Not using chemicals/dosing. It just explains about it as 1 of the many options. The poster says what They did to remove cyano in their tank.... No Dosing.
Gesh....
How can I know that the cycling is over?
i hope the steps we are making are going to lead to some learning and success. thank you for your support fish tank doc!
20. comment for How to remove cyano (red slime algae) from a reef tank.
You could also try gently moving the surface of the sand, with a turkey baster
Firstly doing a 100% water change and cleaning your tank, will not work for every tank. If your tank is needs cleaning, then that is dew to lack of maintenance. Maintenance doesn't cost anything, and I do say to keep on top of your maintenance, but that wont always solve the problem. If you are having to do 100% water change, then it looks like your tank is not set up right.
You probably have a lack of flow. You have to ask why did you have the cyano in the first place. For me it was lack of flow. It took 6 months to get rid of the cyano. I had 40 corals in my tank, so a 100% water change was not an option, unless I broke down my tank. This would not fix the lack of flow and build up of waste. I hope your ciano does not come back. 100% water change is bad for any tank.
I did not use any 'chemi clean', but if I did, it would be a lot easier and cheaper than the amount of salt I would need, to do a 100% water change in my 100g. Get the picture!!!!.
It is true if you just had 2 fish in a 100g, a humbug damsel, and a blue yellow tail damsel, they would probably fight, and you could argue the tank is over stocked.
Over stocking a tank is not simply a matter of water conditions. An over stocked tank will affect the behavior of your tank's organisms and can lead to stress and agression between them. Even if your water tests low for nitrates and phosphates your tank could still be overstoked. It's really up to the aquarist to watch his fish/animals and decide if they're behavior is being affected by the density of organisms in the tank. sounds to me like you don't think your tank is overstocked, and you're probabaly right , but 12 fish for a 100g tank is ALOT , especially when you're keeping two damsels.
My current tank is 100g and has no sump. It has 5 blue/green cromis, 2 clown, 2 blue damsels, 1 red scooter bleny, 1 yellow tang, and 1 pink fairy wrass. That makes 12 fish. Most of the fish are small, with only the wrass and tang, being medium sized fish. As long as you have no algae, and can keep the corals healthy it doesn't rely matter how many fish you have. I have a whole video on reef tank stocking levels.
Every tank is different, and so can handle different amounts of waste. I have several videos of my tank, taken last year.
My phosphate levels are 0.01 and nitrate levels are 0.2. I don't have a deep sand bed, or any way of removing nitrates, except, skimming, and the natural denitrofying bacteria. I use Rowa phos to keep the phosphates down, so have no need for a refugium. If my tank was over stocked or fed, then I would have high nitrates, and phosphates.
Thank you for your comments, I like to know what other reefers think.
30. comment for How to remove cyano (red slime algae) from a reef tank.
Chemi clean is good. Keeping your skimmer on low will eliminate many of the problems that some reefers have.
I think we've both been there!!.