help - are these cyano?

[dnsfpl]

what is the cause and what is best way to resolve this issue?

thanks a million

[Rxcp14]

If im not mistaken its caused by high nutrients... Can try red slime removal... Forgot the brand but aquamarin has it...

[thairun]

Yap that red slime algae alright. You seem to have extra food for your bac in the tank and being consumed by this cyno bac. So reduce them if you feed bac in your tank either by dosing carbon, zeovite additives or other form of bac feeding (bio pallet) etc

I hav been battling them all the while in my DSB refuge. Reduce or stop totally carbon dosing will help in my case.

Cheers

[dnsfpl]

my po4 & no3 reading are 0, sps doing great

water change

5% weekly, app 25l

feeding

food timer, 5 times, app 20 pellets

manual feeding, once, 3 cubes of mysis

i do have dead spot(detritus pile up), i always siphon it away when water change

currently it only infect that location, hopefully can keep them in control

i should stop dosing vodka for the time being?

thanks for the prompt reply

[hotsoup]

try to cut back on the feeding and export nutrient out via water change (dun use NSW) or marcoalage. also try reducing the lighting hrs

[thairun]

my po4 & no3 reading are 0, sps doing great

water change

5% weekly, app 25l

feeding

food timer, 5 times, app 20 pellets

manual feeding, once, 3 cubes of mysis

i do have dead spot(detritus pile up), i always siphon it away when water change

currently it only infect that location, hopefully can keep them in control

i should stop dosing vodka for the time being?

thanks for the prompt reply

Well done, you do have good water condition, welcome to the world of vodka dosing. You may reduce or stop totally if situation detorirated. for this week. Good advise from hotsoup, NSW from lfs have die off bac. depend on how they keep it. Light do encourage them grow, but in my experience 3days shut off light and then re-expose back to normal lighting may coz photo shock to your SPS (RTN). Be careful then. Continue with last regime dose of vodka after a week reduce or stop, if you find thing settled. Am in the midst of replacing vodka dosing with biopallet to prevent guessing work. Now slowly it taking place but cyno inevitable but I balance out with dosing more good bacteria.

Good luck.

[dnsfpl]

thanks for the info bro

will monitor the situation

cheers

[dnsfpl]

here are the things i intend to do, hopefully it will help

1. change 3 "8 months old" T5 tubes

2. reduce vodka dosage by half

3. stop feeding frozen mysis, fully pellet diet

4. siphon as many away as possible during water change

any comments?

thanks

[allantang]

u can try ultraLife red slime remover.. works like a charm.... i used it on my tanks before.

[thairun]

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here are the things i intend to do, hopefully it will help

1. change 3 "8 months old" T5 tubes

2. reduce vodka dosage by half

3. stop feeding frozen mysis, fully pellet diet

4. siphon as many away as possible during water change

any comments?

thanks

[bee0677]

How about using NP Bio-pellets? Can it remove cyano?

[sherman]

Look like many people had this cyano recently.

I got it about 3 months ago.

Now under control.

All these while my salifert PO4 test read zero.

But if you use Hanna tester it read around 0.8

So be careful what your test kit read.

[bee0677]

Look like many people had this cyano recently.

I got it about 3 months ago.

Now under control.

All these while my salifert PO4 test read zero.

But if you use Hanna tester it read around 0.8

So be careful what your test kit read.

What did you do to get rid of that cyano?