Overnight and there's cyano

[Hammerstone]

Iam expecting two RFAs within the next day or two. I know why it happened. I have a high nutrient tank due to feeding colonies of Suns mysis every night. No problem until I put the coral specific lights on. I had a bout like two years ago and it went away on its own. What to do? It didn't cover my current RFAs thank God. I just saw it today and said oh no.

[Newstead]

I know everyone suggests siphoning, more flow, etc. I did all that last summer and it kept coming back. Dosed Microbacter7 a few days, threw a packet of algone in the media basket and it was gone by day 5, never (knock on wood) to return.

 

I have a 40+ head of sun coral and my nitrates were always high - 20, up to 40+. In my biocube 29 I run a media basket with floss changed every 1 to 2 days carbon, purifen and have a Tunze skimmer. Siphon back chambers weekly, 20% water changes weekly, vacuum sand, you name it, couldn't get them down. Tried vodka dosing, nada.

 

Bought NO3:PO4-X and tried it. In 2 weeks my nitrates are down to 10, where I hope to keep them and I have added an extra feeding a day for my frozen trained mandarin!

[Hammerstone]

The first thing Iam going to do is let it go and see if it goes away on its own. If it doesn't I'll use that first thing you said ?

 

We sun people and our diligence feeding them every night/day should make an appreciation thread lol.

 

I have a lot of polyps in two colonies with too many to count. I go through three frozen squares of mysis a night. After I feed them they open up again for more food. Mine are pigs lol. Can you believe it a 3 cube meal. The bridle worms have a fear on what they don't get or hold on to.

 

Oh and that's sweet that your mandarin will eat frozen for you. I would like one one day but Iam very intimidated by them lol.

[Sunstar]

I would not recommend this on a reef, but i treated my QT with erythromicin over the past week. I used this technique when I had FW tanks and had cyano outbreakst here.