Marines_Wife
Reef enthusiast
Yesterday I noticed what looked like a little bit of algae on the glass. Today I am sure that it is cyano. I am putting up some pictures just to be sure that it is in fact cyano but I have a few questions.
Why is it showing up all of the sudden?? The only thing that has gotten a bit high lately has been my nitrates at 20ppm, I just did a 25% water change on Thursday, my phosphates are consistently at .5ppm......I have a couple of theories so help me out
I have been guilty the past few days of leaving my lights on for over 12 hours a day. I got excited I finally had my tank temp stabilized.....I know cyano is photosynthetic, could this be causing it?
I feed pellets and mysis every day...twice a day actually. I have been feeding no more and no less then I usually do for about the past month. Could I be feeding to much? From what I have been reading my goby needs to eat at least twice a day and since my clowns are babies it was suggested to me that they eat twice a day as well.
I did also recently (about 2 days ago) turn off my powerhead in the back to urge my BTA to move where there is better flow. Which BTW I have the most stubborn BTA because she is just hangin out in the back nig and beautiful. Very frustrating....
I read that siphoning out the cyano, having a black out for a few days and skipping a day or two of feeding would help this. Is there anything else I could be doing to help?? I would like to kank this early on before it becomes a full blown problem.
002 by EspysWife, on Flickr
Why is it showing up all of the sudden?? The only thing that has gotten a bit high lately has been my nitrates at 20ppm, I just did a 25% water change on Thursday, my phosphates are consistently at .5ppm......I have a couple of theories so help me out
I have been guilty the past few days of leaving my lights on for over 12 hours a day. I got excited I finally had my tank temp stabilized.....I know cyano is photosynthetic, could this be causing it?
I feed pellets and mysis every day...twice a day actually. I have been feeding no more and no less then I usually do for about the past month. Could I be feeding to much? From what I have been reading my goby needs to eat at least twice a day and since my clowns are babies it was suggested to me that they eat twice a day as well.
I did also recently (about 2 days ago) turn off my powerhead in the back to urge my BTA to move where there is better flow. Which BTW I have the most stubborn BTA because she is just hangin out in the back nig and beautiful. Very frustrating....
I read that siphoning out the cyano, having a black out for a few days and skipping a day or two of feeding would help this. Is there anything else I could be doing to help?? I would like to kank this early on before it becomes a full blown problem.
002 by EspysWife, on Flickr