Cyano going away!

[Mermaid]

Hello,
It has been a while since I have posted. Just been reading and lurking.
Still in the hobby and still battling GHA and Cyano.
I recently added a DI unit to my RO. And now the Cyano is showing signs of
dieing off,
even by itself without me siphoning it. For months I have had no nitrates or
PO4 detected.
I have started using Oceanic for my salt mix instead of IO. My Calcium is
great. PH tends to drop however.
If the DI is the Solution of my GHA, Cyano worries, maybe I hope, then what
in the devil was in my RO water that was
feeding the cyano? Wished I had known it was going to make that much
difference. I would have
done it sooner.

Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Paulette

[kryppy]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:46:33 -0500, "Mermaid" >
wrote:

>Hello,
>It has been a while since I have posted. Just been reading and lurking.
>Still in the hobby and still battling GHA and Cyano.
>I recently added a DI unit to my RO. And now the Cyano is showing signs of
>dieing off,
>even by itself without me siphoning it. For months I have had no nitrates or
>PO4 detected.
> I have started using Oceanic for my salt mix instead of IO. My Calcium is
>great. PH tends to drop however.
>If the DI is the Solution of my GHA, Cyano worries, maybe I hope, then what
>in the devil was in my RO water that was
>feeding the cyano? Wished I had known it was going to make that much
>difference. I would have
>done it sooner.


Did you change your lights or the amount of time they run?
How about new drapes or a shade?
Is the sun not able to light the room like the summer?

I ask, because I have a tank with 120+ nitrates and 2.0 phosphates I
have been attempting to clean up with algae and mangroves alone.
The algae filters were lit 24/7 with 5200k CF's and it grew the most
massive amount of cyano you could ever imagine after three months of
beauty and massive cheeto production.
I was thinking of a chemical solution and it just so happened
that I shut the lights off for 3 days accidently while on a trip, and
it was simply amazing, like magic it all disappeared.

Now I kill them for only 24 hours once a week and it has never
reappeared.

I never have had it in the main tank at all.

GHA on the other hand seems to be my decorator crabs favorite. What he
can't fit in his stomach he wears. I'm not sure what would happen with
out him.

[Mermaid]

Thank you Krippy for that tip. I never thought to actually turn off the
lights for a day. I had reduced the amount of light but not turn them off
entirely.
I was thinking of doing the opposite lighting thing with my fuge but for
fear of the caulerpa going sexual on me. I have chaeto, grape caulerpa and
reg caulerpa in my sump. My orange tree sponge was being overtaken by cyano
so I took it out and put it in a bucket by itself with a little chemi-clean
with no lighting. Hoping it will help it. I'm going to lose it anyway.

Again thanks,
Paulette

[Rich R]

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"Mermaid" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you Krippy for that tip. I never thought to actually turn off the
> lights for a day. I had reduced the amount of light but not turn them off
> entirely.
> I was thinking of doing the opposite lighting thing with my fuge but for
> fear of the caulerpa going sexual on me. I have chaeto, grape caulerpa and
> reg caulerpa in my sump. My orange tree sponge was being overtaken by
> cyano
> so I took it out and put it in a bucket by itself with a little
> chemi-clean
> with no lighting. Hoping it will help it. I'm going to lose it anyway.
>
> Again thanks,
> Paulette
>
>