Cyano with no nutrients?

Proteus · #1 11-14-2012, 06:38 PM

In the last week I have had a slight cyano issue.

It started on the bottom which is not sand but crush. And only enough to cover glass. I vacuum it regularly. I don't have any noticeable phôsphates and nitrates were 0-5 ppm.

I blow it off the rocks daily and it's not even really there just slight amount of red tissue and the air pockets. I use rowaphos and prodibio. I feed my tank very little for the most part spot feeding my two fish and 2 shrimp. I run a mce 600 skimmer which does its job fantastically. Also run filter pad @100 micron changed daily

Can anyone explain why this would be without any noticeable nutrients.

Reef Puffer · #2 11-14-2012, 06:40 PM

i have an old halide that causes the stuff

Northernseacorals · #3 11-14-2012, 06:40 PM

Maybe low flow in that area ?

Proteus · #4 11-14-2012, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Reef Puffer

i have an old halide that causes the stuff

Light is a radion at 80%. 14000k and 18000k in evening

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Originally Posted by Northernseacorals

Maybe low flow in that area ?

Tank has mp10 almost full bore on reef crest

arash53 · #5 11-14-2012, 06:46 PM

I had this issue for couple month, i used blue vet redslime control and they all gone next morning!

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Proteus · #6 11-14-2012, 06:50 PM

I am prepared to use the meds to be rid of it but there must be a reason why this is happening

I blow off rocks daily to remove it but also to remove deitrus. So I can't see it being leech from rock either

arash53 · #7 11-14-2012, 06:53 PM

Thats bacteria

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Proteus · #8 11-14-2012, 06:56 PM

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Thats bacteria

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Yes it is lol

I was reading on chris88 feature about cyano being a byproduct of carbon dosing. So I wonder if adding different benificial bacterial strain would help this

albert_dao · #9 11-14-2012, 07:48 PM

Yeah, I've also dealt with the "where's it getting its food from??!?!?!?!" cyano. Don't bother fighting it with "honest" methods. Just pick up an antibiotic and call it a day.

Proteus · #10 11-14-2012, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by albert_dao

Yeah, I've also dealt with the "where's it getting its food from??!?!?!?!" cyano. Don't bother fighting it with "honest" methods. Just pick up an antibiotic and call it a day.

Yeah I have cemiclean on hand.

I was just lookin for a reason why but I guess sometimes it is what it is