My sad tank

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by lngrhaul

Good luck - and hey Reefwars - nice of you to offer to come all the way from Bali to help a fellow out!

what can i say, im sure he'd do the same p

[fishytime]

how old is the tank?...how much flow do you have?...how big is the tank and how many pounds of LR and or dry rock did you use?......how many fish and what flavor?.....are you straining/draining your frozen food?.....

[coolhandgoose]

Originally Posted by fishytime

how old is the tank?...how much flow do you have?...how big is the tank and how many pounds of LR and or dry rock did you use?......how many fish and what flavor?.....are you straining/draining your frozen food?.....

Tank is a year and a half old.
I have the return pump, maybe 400gph, a koralia 3 and 2. My koralia 1050 has a new part being shipped and I'll add that too.
DT is 55 gal with a 30 gal sump.
I have about 60 pounds of live rock at least
1 each yellow tang, coral beauty and clown.
I don't strain the food.

[sully08]

Originally Posted by reefwars

start running gfo in a reactor it will help big time.


that is cyano for sure theres alot of stuff you can do to stop it but the most important is nutrients.


what are your water parameters??


cal,mg,alk,nitrates,phosphates????



if you need a hand to get it under cntrol i could probably stop by to see whats up, if your interested let me know and we can arrange something.

I have some cyano problems myself, what is gfo, I am fairly new to the salt water hobby.

[sully08]

Originally Posted by paddyob

Yea. Not 100%


Cyano is a battle. It won't resolve itself.

It can be something you are doing... Such as way way over feeding or as mentioned, maybe your filters.

To aid the process of removal, you must remove it manually.

Personally, I used a baster and basted the rocks and corals daily and removed what I could by siphon or net.

I started using ecobak pellets about 3/4 of the way through my battle.... And poof. Gone.

It's beatable. But only if you are diligent.

Don't let Denny come over. He has cyano.

Lol. Joking.

What are ecobak pellets?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by sully08

I have some cyano problems myself, what is gfo, I am fairly new to the salt water hobby.

Gfo is granular ferous oxide, it will remove phosphate very quickly its best ran in a reactor.


tips for removing cyano:


Increase flow to areas
manul removal
remove built up ditrius
Watch nitrates and phosphatea
Do not overfeed
consistent light schedules
use ro water
remove any dieing animals right away
regular water changes and husbandry

[Beverly]

My suggestions to win the battle:

-weekly or twice-weekly water changes of 30%
-baste your rock and sandbed (baste hard into the sandbed) to get detritus into the water column where your skimmer, HOB filter with foams, and/or canister filter can remove the detritus and ALWAYS throughly clean the HOB and canister filters after basting. Basting can be done three times a day for a week for the best results. Your tank will look like a horrible snowstorm after a good basting, especially at the beginning, but it will not hurt your corals.

Detritus Export Video

After you get the situation under control, do weekly maintenance.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by coolhandgoose

I usually feed 1/2 cube of emerald entree a day, or 1 cube every two days. I also use Pacifica plankton. I have a yellow tang, coral beauty and a clown.

I'll plan on a few 30 % changes instead of the full meal deal. I'm wondering if when I built my scrubber the PVC glue wasn't fully set and leached out some toxins is why the corals are not happy right now as well.

I use this plankton as well and find I have to rinse it really well with tabk water or I get nasty algea out breaks.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Beverly

My suggestions to win the battle:

-weekly or twice-weekly water changes of 30%
-baste your rock and sandbed (baste hard into the sandbed) to get detritus into the water column where your skimmer, HOB filter with foams, and/or canister filter can remove the detritus and ALWAYS throughly clean the HOB and canister filters after basting. Basting can be done three times a day for a week for the best results. Your tank will look like a horrible snowstorm after a good basting, especially at the beginning, but it will not hurt your corals.

Detritus Export Video

After you get the situation under control, do weekly maintenance.

would not recommend basting a sand bed to the point of a snowstorm if you have a deep sandbed that never gets vacummed as youll be releasing nasty pollutants into your water that could have a negative effect on fish and corals.fine if you have a shallow bed or reguarily stir and vacumm your sand but if youve never touched your sand bed in a year and a half then i wouldnt start to disturb it now unless your removing it all together for rinsing.if you must disturb it do it in small amounts or add a sand sifting goby.



cyano is most always nutrients and if your not watching what goes into your tank then it can easily appear and re appear.rinse frozen food well and blotch out the juices its acked with phosphates.

your tank is small and a low bio load if you add more flow to the affected areas and watch what goes into your tank you should be able to clear it u in no time, remove what you can with a turkey baster and keep up with water changes.


it will dissappear once its food source is cut off comletely......over night fixes and chemicals are useless if you dont find the cause i can almost guarantee it will return if you dont change what the cause is.


cyano could be caused by something as small as spawning or something as large as off the chart nutrients and everything in between.....it feeds off pollution

cheers

[coolhandgoose]

Thanks for the tips guys. I'm gonna start rinsing my food.

Here are the water results as I got some new di resin from Eli.

Tds readings
Tap water 264
After carbon and sediment filters 277 ( crazy how it went up!)
After RO filter 104

With new carbon and sediment filters it went to 240
After the RO down to 16
With the brand new di resin at the last stage it's now at 0.