Algae or Cyanobacteria? What to do?
 

then he probably had a phospate problem and then that may be my prob too, i
had a hair algae prob and had to reset all rocks to put a DSB in there, had
crushed coral. that should take care of it. do you have CRUSHED CORAL? i
still eblieve that going to RO will solve it too. but for you what yotu
should do is cut the lights back to 6-7 hours a day, stop feeding fish for
about 3 days, then feed them every other day only what they eat for about 2
weeks, also stop feeding corals anything, including phytoplankton, iodine,
strontium, coral acell, trace elements, iron, anything like that. calcium
is still ok and dkH. this way you will stop feeding your cyanobacteria, the
FISH WILL BE OK, and the corals will be fine!!! now at this point, you may
need to take some rocks out, and SCRUB the bacteria off, forget about the
life on the rock, it will either rocover or it was worth it cause tank will
get worse! scrub outside of tank in bucket with salt water from tank. stop
filter if gets clouded up. when substrate crud gets mixed up soem will
churn up onto rocks after filter restart and replant itself on rest of
bacteria and start to control it, then its up to you to use either RO water
or phospate sponge or if you have crush coral then chage that to DSB or is
you have old NO bulbs shange them out too, and keep nitrates down as usual.

wolfhedd.


"Soup" wrote in message
...
I had the same problem in my tank and I remedied the problem by doing
my WC with nothing but RO water and it never came back. I have both
powerheads pointing toward the front of the tank crossing each other
both at different levels in the tank. Water changes are done every 2
weeks max. (20%)

-Soup

In article , QT
wrote:

I live in Orange County... but if the mexican hermits will really get
rid of
most of the cyano/diatom and whatever else i have, then i'm willing to
drive
to san diego, LA, riverside, etc!

Or should I just get a powerhead and direct it right above the sand?