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Don't want to transfer cyano to new tank


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I've been battling cyano in a 32g cube. In the meantime I've been cycling a Nuvo 30L to transfer everything to, and it's ready to go. I obviously don't want to transfer any of the cyano. Most of the corals are glued to rocks. Some of the rocks have a few wisps of cyano detritus, but they are not encrusted.

  1. Would I be OK transferring any of the rocks with coral, maybe if I swished them in a bucket of saltwater first?
  2. Or should I remove the coral from the rocks? Some of the plugs have cyano detritus. Would swishing them in something like Revive coral cleaner do any good?
  3. Anything else I should keep in mind?

Thanks!

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A single microscopic bit of cyano can spread through a tank. Cyano is everywhere. It is where life basically started. You can clean it all off visibly and keep up on your husbandry to keep it away, but cyano outbreaks are always possible and in a new tank, probable.

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You can't stop the cyano. It will get in your tank, one way or another. It's kind of a overly repeated phrase, but control the nutrients. That's the only fix for cyano. I do regular water changes, run a skimmer, dose vodka, and have a refugium that I harvest caulerpa from weekly. All this keeps the cyano somewhat tolerable. You just gotta find the export methods that work for you.

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A single microscopic bit of cyano can spread through a tank. Cyano is everywhere. It is where life basically started. You can clean it all off visibly and keep up on your husbandry to keep it away, but cyano outbreaks are always possible and in a new tank, probable.

 

I'm just wondering if the conditions in the new tank would be such that cyano wouldn't take hold. Cyano is likely in every tank, as I understand it, but in what concentrations I don't know.

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I'm just wondering if the conditions in the new tank would be such that cyano wouldn't take hold. Cyano is likely in every tank, as I understand it, but in what concentrations I don't know.

I had a 10 gallon tank that I would siphon every last visible spot out of and by lights out, it was completely covered again. It multiplies amazingly fast. In a new tank, it all depends on how clean your water is, the sanded, and the rocks you added. Switching the tank and using the old rocks is basically just doing a thorough cleaning and 100% water change.

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Swishing isn't enough, get a toothbrush and gently brush off all areas. Put the cleaned rocks/corals in the new tank.

Cyano is thought to be caused by one type of bacteria outcompeting another. I have found dosing Coral Snow which has been left sitting in a cup with some MB7 mixed for a couple of days and then dosing daily helps rid cyano within a week.

 

I run a high nutrient system which will not change - nutrients do play a role in cyano being able to thrive but it's not the only thing that causes it.

 

Lights out for one day to 3 days while dosing with coral snow+MB7 will also beat it back by a lot. Suctioning cyano is recommended over blasting it off as that only causes it to settle elsewhere.

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HarryPotter

Its easy to get rid of cyano.. Just do the correct dosage of Chemi-Clean and BOOM its gone forever within two days. I don't understand what the fuss and struggle over Cyano is about!

 

I did the treatment on my Uncles 125 tank, my NanoCube, my RL-45, and a friends tank with the same perfect results. Its gone and never comes back after using ChemiClean.

 

(Which is 100% reef safe)

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Thanks for the replies folks.

 

I did two doses of Red Slime Remover a couple weeks ago, which I understand is the same as Chemiclean, and it didn't do anything. Maybe I have a resistant strain. I did buy some Chemiclean, and I put it in last night. Was worse this morning - unless the detritus is just loosening up. Lots of filamental detritus waving around.

 

When people say to scoop it up, or remove it, that's not removing the bacteria, but its byproduct, right? Isn't that like cleaning up rat poop to get rid of the rats?

 

I'll try the reef snow + MB7, as I have a bottle of the latter. Haven't heard of Cyano Clean, wonder if it's the same as Chemiclean?

 

Or I may just go nuclear on it, which isn't a metaphor. I actually bought a small thermonuclear warhead from a defected Russian scientist and I may detonate in the tank. I'm a little worried that might be too much for the coral though.

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