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By the sounds of what i have read in the thread, most bases have been covered to all the common cures. Two main ones always seem to jump out at me, and are mentioned i think by Jojo22....Flow, black out and skimming.

A combination of these would quickly do the clear up operation for you, and once that is done, it will allow you to see where the cyano is starting to appear from again....Dont worry about the watchman, it will be fine....
 
WOW..

these are the types of things that have kept me away from SW...
As much as I would love to do it.

Just curious though, Have you gotten the new bulbs yet? Can't you find another source for them?
 
Reefscape said:
By the sounds of what i have read in the thread, most bases have been covered to all the common cures. Two main ones always seem to jump out at me, and are mentioned i think by Jojo22....Flow, black out and skimming.

A combination of these would quickly do the clear up operation for you, and once that is done, it will allow you to see where the cyano is starting to appear from again....Dont worry about the watchman, it will be fine....
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Flow, I agree with. But I have 68x turnover and no dead spots in my 29G tank and I still had a small cyano outbreak, so flow isn't the cure all, just helps it from really getting established.

Blackout.. NEVER EVER in a million years would I do that on my tank. I value my corals way to much and I have seen what just 2-3 days without light can do to corals. There are much safer methods to solving the problem than blacking out the tank. If it were a fish only tank, no problem, but not on a reef tank.

Skimming - always good to do, but will not remove any silicates, and only removes an average amount of phosphates. If you have a cyano outbreak, chances are the cyano is consuming the phosphates faster than a skimmer can remove them.
 
Ace25 said:
Flow, I agree with. But I have 68x turnover and no dead spots in my 29G tank and I still had a small cyano outbreak, so flow isn't the cure all, just helps it from really getting established.

Blackout.. NEVER EVER in a million years would I do that on my tank. I value my corals way to much and I have seen what just 2-3 days without light can do to corals. There are much safer methods to solving the problem than blacking out the tank. If it were a fish only tank, no problem, but not on a reef tank.

Skimming - always good to do, but will not remove any silicates, and only removes an average amount of phosphates. If you have a cyano outbreak, chances are the cyano is consuming the phosphates faster than a skimmer can remove them.
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Well, we respectfully disagree then Ace25...I have used the blackout method myself, without any losses to coral...the people who i have recomended it too and used it have never lost any coral. Proof is in the pudding..

Do we all think that corals get bright brilliant sunlight every day in the reef? Nope, they certainly do not...

Please do remember that your ways are not the only ways, only what works for you. Please remember that other people do also have other ways of dealing with an issue, which you may not agree with it, but which are proven to work...

Thanks
 
Hense the reason I states *I* would never in a million years do that to my tank. Having lost over $10,000 in corals in the last 30 days at the LFS I work at due to power/lighting issues I will have to repectfully disagree with you on the blackout method. In just 2 days of no light on our SPS frag tanks we lost $8000 in corals, that is wholesale prices. Yes, I know corals do not get sun every day of the year, but their environment in the ocean is much more stable and better suited than a small fish tank for that type of thing to happen.

Oh well, this will be my last post on here... wish you the best of luck salty.
 
I agree with Ace. you don't need to do a black out if you use "Chemiclean" once or twice. I did warn you to make sure you get red slime removing chemical and not media, because I was not sure about the second part of the name. I know it's hard to figure out what to do with all the given ideas, however a chemical in this case is a good thing because of the nature of red slime. water change is another good thing, with nice clean water of cause.
 
well i ordered the chemi-pure before you actually cleared up that it wasn't the media badroma1... but anyway the tank is covered with a blanket so we'll see what it looks like in a few days. i really honestly am so fed up with it! i did get one of those nano skimmers for the tank as well. we'll see i'll get the chemi-clean after this black out if the slime is still covering everything. either that or i'll just break down the tank and move the toadstool to my 75g and the fish to a 10g temporarily. as far as the lights go they are backordered everywhere so it's a waiting game... flow is def not a problem in the tank that's for sure that maxi-jet with the upgrade is blowing the heck outta that tank now!
i still don't understand why this tank got the cyano to start with since i am using the same water on my 75g?
 
I had a cyno bloom in my 40B here is what I did..first I changed my water source for top offs..i used bottle water from the grocery store..now I buy distilled only, I added cheato,added chemi-pure elite, I cut my photo period to 8 hrs after I blacked out for 3 days..no effects, the coral actually looked beter lol,I added more flow to the area, I did 15% water changes a week and I removed some live rock rubble that i had added right before i started the outbreak..i removed the rock and whalah the red slime was gone..bad live rock..i have read of this happening..the whole ordeal lasted 3 weeks to long..i lost no corals
good luck
 
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