Clean up crew for red cyano?

Thresa

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I am having an outbreak of red cyano in my 135 gallon FOWLR tank. I have tried siphoning it out and it returns a few days later. Are there any snails or crabs that will eat this stuff?
 
Start looking at other parameters that encourage cyano. Water flow, nitrates, low alkalinity, low pH--all can allow cyano to thrive. Very few animals will eat it. I used to have a reef and a FO plumbed together. The reef never has a scrap of cyano, but the FO would get covered. The difference wasn't the water quality, but rather the number of cleaners and such that moved around the tank--they didn't eat it, but their movements prevented it from establishing. So, if you don't have many cleaners, adding some will help--but you'll have to remove it manually for quite some time until their efforts will be able to keep it at bay, IME.
 
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