Beating Cyano algae - Join me on my adventure!

[banditpowdercoat]

I want to know more about dosing sugar. I've t5ried lights out, Phos reactors, Lots of water changes, changed lighting scheduals, less feeding. I've removed a bunch of sand, added more.... Tank looks "OK" in morning, but by 5pm, the sand and rocks are covered again..

[tang daddy]

well here is my report for sugar dosing most of the cyano is gone.....

It was about 90% on everything the rocks the substrate and everything else and now there is about 15% left we'll see in a few more days if it will be totally gone but one thing intresting to make note of was the bacteria aka red slime has turned brown and blown away which is a pleasent suprise.

I have a mix of crushed coral and LS and when I disturbed the CC on the top layer it ended up mixing cyano about 1 in in the bed so the deeper stuff still remain but the top layers is gone so again tonight I released the trapped stuff into the water coloumn.

It seems that maybe a few on here are willing to try something new like banditpowdercoat.... I would say try 2 tablespoons of sugar per 50g and wait a few days like I did, it hasn't harmed any of my sps, gorgs or lps but I believe that problems take time to dissappear and afterall sugar isn't that bad in terms of killing animals like the chemiclean was on my precious gorgs so far I have 5 different species of gorgs and I would definately not chance them dying ever again.

A quick question to Drock what are the ill effects or disadvantages to carbon dosing and low nitrates?