New approach to cyano.

pezenfuego

pezenfuego

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Yet again, I don't have school today. Okay, everything is squared away and all of the lights are now on! By 3-4 I should know if it worked or not. By 6 I should know the extent of the damage. I wonder if I can keep my fingers crossed for that long.
 
mr_x

mr_x

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i believe you can keep the cyano on one tank and not the other, but i don't think turning the lights off will remove it from the dt.
anyone who has cyano can tell you that at night when the lights are off, the cyano looks as though it's dying off , and all but disappears. the next day, when the lights come back on, it's back with a vengeance. lack of light won't erradicate it.
 
pezenfuego

pezenfuego

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Originally Posted by Mr_X
http:///forum/post/2932556
i believe you can keep the cyano on one tank and not the other, but i don't think turning the lights off will remove it from the dt.
anyone who has cyano can tell you that at night when the lights are off, the cyano looks as though it's dying off , and all but disappears. the next day, when the lights come back on, it's back with a vengeance. lack of light won't erradicate it.
The point was not to erradicate it by light deprivation. I gave this cyano plenty of light and when it was all living in a small place, I isolated it and removed it. Since I don't have any corals...I can deprive the tank of light for a long time without too many ill effects. It WILL NOT come back full force I can gaurantee that. I removed a ton of waste. I do believe that it will come back though. This time it will be much more managable though.
 
mr_x

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some say the cyano will hurt the corals. i've never witnessed this in any tanks. and i've seen alot of cyano!
 
pezenfuego

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Well it doesn't look like I'll be having a whole lot of cyano (if any) coming back and my parameters are stable. So I don't think I'll have enough to suffocate them that wasn't my concern. Somebody told me (a long time ago) that cyano produces toxins that are deadly to corals.
 
pezenfuego

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Originally Posted by Ilovemytank
http:///forum/post/2933061
I would just use red slime remover or chemi-clean and try to figure out what was the origional cause and change it.
I tried to stay away from that as best I could and looks so far like it paid off. I'll post pics tomorrow just in case it does decide to come back. I am also thinking of getting a fighting conch.
 
gmann1139

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Originally Posted by PEZenfuego
http:///forum/post/2933077
I tried to stay away from that as best I could and looks so far like it paid off. I'll post pics tomorrow just in case it does decide to come back. I am also thinking of getting a fighting conch.
If you are going to use RSR, do it before adding the corals.
 
mr_x

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Originally Posted by SpiderWoman
http:///forum/post/2932877
Cyano can suffocate a coral, but that's about the only thing it does to a coral.
how does it do that? by covering it? i've never seen cyano cover a heallthy coral.
and i've had corals on the sand bed that was a sheet of red. it just seemed to grow around it.
 
ilovemytank

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Originally Posted by PEZenfuego
http:///forum/post/2933454
I will never use it.
I'm just curious why this is ? I can understand the concern if you had a bunch of corals. You have an easy fix with these. As long as you learn why and how you got the cyno and correct that then you could say "bye bye cyno" and move on. If you follow the instructions you won't harm anything you have. Tons of people use it successfully all the time. Its not like putting a copper based medicine in your tank. Its also won't hurt any of your fish and for the most part won't hurt corals. If you had alot of sensitive corals they might react to the change in water chemistry and distress, but shouldn't be killed if you had followed the instructions. Cyno is a bacteria. water flow, water changes, feed less, less lighting are all good prevenitives and help to eradicate it but cyno can multipy and put you in all out war with it for a long time. I'm not saying you can't beat cyno this way, I'm saying it might take you 2 months or two years. I have used them and have known many that have used them successfully and have never seen or had cyno again. Red slime remover and chemi clean kill the bacteria. They do lower the oxygen content in the water but there are ways to easily oxygenate your water during the 48 hours until you do a water change. I would never advise any medicine in mine nor your tank except for this. You should consider it so that you could move on to have an awesome reef and get the corals you want. Good luck.
 
pezenfuego

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For a little update. I have a tiny bit of cyano in my sump now, but I think it will go away on it's own. Also, I was curious...I only a tiny bit of cheato...don't ask me why I have no idea. I started with a handful. Should I get more or let it grow itself out? I won't use chemicals because besides killing cyano, they can kill other types of bacteria. I don't have an out of control problem any more, so I don't need to use it and I won't waste the gamble and the money on it. Besides, corals next week.
 
pezenfuego

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I think I am going to try caulerpa...but I am going to study it some more first. If what I've heard is correct, it shows clear signs before going sexual. Is this the case? What do I look for?
 
mr_x

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i have a mixture of 4 or 5 different macroalgae in my refugium. i've not had any sexual event in the couple years my system has been running. you just need to harvest when it get's thick. when i leave it alone for a period of time, the bubble caulerpa that's on the bottom, turns transparent. some say this is a sign. i don't know...it could just be the fact that it's deprived of light.
 
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