Been a while since I've posted an update.
I've officially 100% defeated my Cyano outbreak. Didn't change lights, didn't increase flow, didn't do excessive water changes, continued with my weekly 5g water change.
It happened in what appeared to be 3 stages, it showed up a very dark purple, almost black in areas. It spread all over the gravel very quickly. I knocked some loose not knowing what it was and the loose pieces attached to my base rock and started to quickly grow, but I knocked it off again. Then the Cyano in the sand bed started to turn from the dark purple/black to magenta, without increasing in coverage. It kept losing color, started thinning out and shortly was about 80% gone from the sand bed without vacuuming. Some was attached to some base rock again, so I did my weekly water change and shook the base rock gently in the bucket of old water, which removed what was left. In about a week and a half or so, the Cyano has completely gone away. What was growing on the sand bed, rock & even the glass is completely gone. I have no noticable algae growing at all, nor any Cyano.
I think I'm just lucky and my weekly water changes helped. I don't even think this post will offer any help to anyone with Cyano issues, but who knows! I just was patient, had a new tank..and gave it time. I think if I had a well established tank that was over a year old and I had a Cyano out break, I would have panicked and done things differently.
Aside from that, my corals are colored great right now. The Kenya trees are growing at an incredible rate (to me), my Frogspawn frag is about triple the size it was when I brought it home. My Gonio/Alveo (sorry I still haven't had it identified, the closest appearing one I've found was named "Ultra Green Gonio") is attaching itself to some rubble rock and has easily 30 new polyps.
The Alien eye zoos, half closed up for around 2 weeks, some polyps started opening up again and one morning everything was open again, brighter, greener & bigger than before. Is that typical behavior for zoos? My Ricordeas (spelling) have finally attached to my rock on their own and look AWESOME, especially the pink ric.
The new Xenia's I have grow like crazy too, really impressed with how quick they took off in my tank. The Cabbage leather continues to look pinker & pinker, the yellow sponge that came with it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything, I don't know anything about them so...who knows with that.
::crosses fingers:: Everything looks real good right now (to me atleast..haha!)
I've officially 100% defeated my Cyano outbreak. Didn't change lights, didn't increase flow, didn't do excessive water changes, continued with my weekly 5g water change.
It happened in what appeared to be 3 stages, it showed up a very dark purple, almost black in areas. It spread all over the gravel very quickly. I knocked some loose not knowing what it was and the loose pieces attached to my base rock and started to quickly grow, but I knocked it off again. Then the Cyano in the sand bed started to turn from the dark purple/black to magenta, without increasing in coverage. It kept losing color, started thinning out and shortly was about 80% gone from the sand bed without vacuuming. Some was attached to some base rock again, so I did my weekly water change and shook the base rock gently in the bucket of old water, which removed what was left. In about a week and a half or so, the Cyano has completely gone away. What was growing on the sand bed, rock & even the glass is completely gone. I have no noticable algae growing at all, nor any Cyano.
I think I'm just lucky and my weekly water changes helped. I don't even think this post will offer any help to anyone with Cyano issues, but who knows! I just was patient, had a new tank..and gave it time. I think if I had a well established tank that was over a year old and I had a Cyano out break, I would have panicked and done things differently.
Aside from that, my corals are colored great right now. The Kenya trees are growing at an incredible rate (to me), my Frogspawn frag is about triple the size it was when I brought it home. My Gonio/Alveo (sorry I still haven't had it identified, the closest appearing one I've found was named "Ultra Green Gonio") is attaching itself to some rubble rock and has easily 30 new polyps.
The Alien eye zoos, half closed up for around 2 weeks, some polyps started opening up again and one morning everything was open again, brighter, greener & bigger than before. Is that typical behavior for zoos? My Ricordeas (spelling) have finally attached to my rock on their own and look AWESOME, especially the pink ric.
The new Xenia's I have grow like crazy too, really impressed with how quick they took off in my tank. The Cabbage leather continues to look pinker & pinker, the yellow sponge that came with it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything, I don't know anything about them so...who knows with that.
::crosses fingers:: Everything looks real good right now (to me atleast..haha!)
