Thinking on throwing the towel, this time is green cyano

[Neto]

Hi Folks, I have been having nightmares with this stuff and its been a year battle. I have lost many frags, small colonies and even fishes that I have had for 8+ years trying to battle this green cyano. I have tried many things such as zeovit, GFO, peroxide, cyano clean, etc and I cant seem to get rid of it. 

 

Has anyone had experience with this type of cyano? I am just very tired and am leaning more towards giving up. 

Edited August 12, 2018 by Neto

[BtmDweller]

Siphon as much as you can with a 50% water change and use chemipure. Stuff is a miracle cure!! LFS or petco should have.

 

What’s your water like? RODI, how many stages and what’s in each stage, changing filters regularly, dosing anything different? What’s the water change frequency?

Edited August 12, 2018 by ReefBum

[epleeds]

I used this on a red algae I couldn’t get rid of. 1 tab per ten gallons. Solved my problem.

 

https://www.payless-petproducts.com/site/mobile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.payless-petproducts.com%2Ffluconazole200.html#2691

[Neto]

Siphon as much as you can with a 50% water change and use chemipure. Stuff is a miracle cure!! LFS or petco should have.

 

What’s your water like? RODI, how many stages and what’s in each stage, changing filters regularly, dosing anything different? What’s the water change frequency?

 

the RODI is a 5 stage unit and TDS reads 0. Filters are Sediment, two carbon block, membrane and finally DI from BRS. The filters are about 6 months old and I got them from BRS. I am not dosing anything different, only pellet food and reef frenzy nano. I change the water every two weeks.

 

thanks for the suggestion, I will try chemipure.

Edited August 12, 2018 by Neto

[Neto]

I used this on a red algae I couldn’t get rid of. 1 tab per ten gallons. Solved my problem.

 

https://www.payless-petproducts.com/site/mobile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.payless-petproducts.com%2Ffluconazole200.html#2691

 

I think people have used that for hair algae, did it work for you on cyano?

[BtmDweller]

Are you using mixed bed DI?

 

 

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[Neto]

Are you using mixed bed DI?

 

 

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The one I have is called nuclear grade from BRS.

[WheresTheReef]

What kind of lights do you have? If T5, when did you last change your bulbs?

 

How is the water flow in the tank? When did you last clean your powerheads? You'd be surprised how much flow you lose due to algae growth on them. I started getting cyano and after I cleaned my powerheads, the increased flow helped clear it up for good.

 

Try to siphon out as much as possible during water changes. You can even siphon it off the rocks into a filter sock in the sump more frequently. Manually remove it from the sand and stir the sand to bury it.

 

It's one of those things that will require you to stay on top of, but you can beat it.

[Leishman]

I had a green brown snot algae that wouldn’t die. The Fluconazole took it out in one dose. I did a second just to be sure. No loss of fish or coral.

[Neto]

What kind of lights do you have? If T5, when did you last change your bulbs?

 

How is the water flow in the tank? When did you last clean your powerheads? You'd be surprised how much flow you lose due to algae growth on them. I started getting cyano and after I cleaned my powerheads, the increased flow helped clear it up for good.

 

Try to siphon out as much as possible during water changes. You can even siphon it off the rocks into a filter sock in the sump more frequently. Manually remove it from the sand and stir the sand to bury it.

 

It's one of those things that will require you to stay on top of, but you can beat it.

I have a 8x24w ati powermodule and bulbs are about 5 month old, brand is korallen zutch, 5 whites, 2 blues and one pink. For flow there are two mp10’s and i clean them every now and then when i see accumulation of algae.

 

Thanks for your suggestions!

[BtmDweller]

Where are you located?

 

 

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[Neto]

Urbana, MD

[epleeds]

$10 worth of flucanozle will solve your issues.

 

Just siphon everything out you can see then dose it. About 30-60 days it will be pristine

[Neto]

Ok so far i siphoned most of the algae, moved sand and did a water change (25%). Tomorrow comes in the chemipure elite so i will try that for a few weeks and see how it works.

[Neto]

So I added the Chemipure elite on Tuesday and tank looks better but I can see some of the cyano coming back. Time will tell. I changed the DI resin even though it was reading 0...

 

Does this DI resin look right to you?

Edited August 16, 2018 by Neto

[Origami]

That resin still looks good to me - that is, not exhausted.

[YHSublime]

I had a green brown snot algae that wouldn’t die. The Fluconazole took it out in one dose. I did a second just to be sure. No loss of fish or coral.

 

$10 worth of flucanozle will solve your issues.

 

Just siphon everything out you can see then dose it. About 30-60 days it will be pristine

 

From what I've seen, this is pretty much tried and tested, there is a huge thread over on R2R about it. I don't know if @alanm did this, but I think he referenced the thread? Seems the flucanozle will solve a myriad of problems, cyano being one of them, without any effect to fish, corals, pods, inverts, etc. If you think you've exhausted all options, why not give this a shot?

[BtmDweller]

 

 

In response to the above.

 

Here’s the blue BRS resin, turns blue to brown. Should be bright blue. If it’s exposed to air it will deplete as well. I only get the single refillable for that reason.

 

 

 

 

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Edited August 17, 2018 by BtmDweller

[lynn.reef.nerd]

I have chemiclean if you want to try it out.  I'm in Glen Burnie.

[Neto]

Thanks everyone for your comments / suggestions.

 

Yesterday I did a 40% water change and removed the substrate (tropic eden). Tank looks 100% better to be honest but time will tell, I am getting some hair algae now and will be buying new clean up crew this weekend since the majority of the previous crew died due to the Cyano outbreak. Since i am trying chemiclean elite now, if that doesnt work, I will give another change to the fluconazole treatment next since I did try it out a few months ago for hair algae and did nothing, maybe the strain that I had was different.

[sen5241b]

Had a cyano problem recently and I was certain my water was TDS zero. Put my finger on the inside of the freshwater reservoir and I could feel a slime growing in there. Put TDS meter IN the reservoir and TDS 200! Have you checked TDS of the water in the reservoir?

Edited August 17, 2018 by sen5241b

[madweazl]

Will be tan when depleted (bottom of canister). Have you tried hydrogen peroxide for the GHA?

 

Edited August 17, 2018 by madweazl

[Neto]

Had a cyano problem recently and I was certain my water was TDS zero. Put my finger on the inside of the freshwater reservoir and I could feel a slime growing in there. Put TDS meter IN the reservoir and TDS 200! Have you checked TDS of the water in the reservoir?

 

thats a good one, however since I have a nano, I always use non-stored water

[Neto]

Will be tan when depleted (bottom of canister). Have you tried hydrogen peroxide for the GHA?

 

 

I have and will try that if the CUC that i am  buying doesnt do the job. 

[BtmDweller]

Because you dosed chemipure and just did your water change you may want to do one smaller treatment to ensure it’s all gone and no mixing of different products in the water. Or after some time switch to a different product.

 

 

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