GREEN CYANO/ MYSTERY DETRITUS

[zhonk]

8 months ago I began my nitrogen cycle in my 55 gallon tank. 6 months ago I added the first fish. The fuzzy dwarf lion died 2 months later while I was on vacation. In the time before I got the fish the tank became infested with green hair algae. By the time he died it was covered with green and purple cyano. I think the cyano came back because I was overfeeding him. Since he died I have gotten a small clown (pictured)

I know I am not overfeeding him, he gets a mysid a day. So I syphoned the cyano of only to discover the dead hair algae. (pictured)

The cyano once again begins to grow back. I read that that cyano is feed by high nitrates (mine are zero) over feeding and decaying organic matter. Would the dead hair algae be feuling this cyano infection?

 

[Grins]

What kind of flow do you have in the tank and what is your water source?

 

[zhonk]

The flow is 1280 gph and I my water is RO/DI.

 

[Grins]

Great for both and you're only feeding one mysis shrimp a day? A single mysis or a single cube? (have to ask)

 

[zhonk]

Usually two pieces of a mysid. The shrimp I have doesn't come in cubes. I know where the phosphates are coming from, the dead algae. I have started to siphon it out. Is there a quicker way of getting it out?

 

[Grins]

remove the rock and scrub it

 

[zhonk]

With what and in what. Oh yes, and thank you for the help.

 

[Grins]

put it in a container of used tank water and use a wire brush

 

[zhonk]

Thank you, I'l do that tomorrow.