Its more brown then red and only on sand bed. Started about 3 wks ago. Nitrates are .05 phosphates .03. I also feel that I have a lot of flow for my tank. I've been doing 20g water changes for past 2 months. I run marine pure plates 1 8x8x4 just added last sunday and 2 8x8x1added 2 months ago. I does nopox 1ml daily starting 2 wks ago. And run carbon here and there. Any suggestions ??
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Cyano bateria or diatoms?
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I syphin sand weekly and yes it comes back with in a couple days.
Sand isn't even 2 yrs old but I guess anything is possible.
No I'm using the real thing and I've read that it can do eradicate a d forum it but can't figure out what to do from there. When I was using it at high dose 5 to 10ml I don't have any cyano but I had high nitrates (50) to start. When I dropped to 2.5 it started appearing then I went to 1ml because of the directions to the nopox and to try to keep my tank out of the uln category.
I'm not sure when it comes to nopox , I think @Juano908 is using it and I think @horseplay did use it in the past...
Yea I'm pretty sure they are hopefully they can chime in at some point.
Looks like cyano. When you siphon it out does it come as like a sheet? I have the same stuff in my tank which I am battling but to speak the truth I have not done too much to fight it (beside siphon out); I need to get on top of it.
Kinda not really I've had cyano in the past and it's been red and like a sheet of velvet that I could easily peel up. When I syphin it comes up easily not really in clumps.
I forgot to mention I also dose mb7, 10ml once a w/o.
It's hard to say. I still dose diy nopox and love it. I had cyano a few months ago but now all disappeared. I syphoned it out and replaced with some new sand. I think in general once the tank is balanced these nuisances will disappear. I ran out of mb7 a while ago so have not been using that. Have not noticed any difference.
I think I'll slowly remove sand over the next couple weeks and we will see where it goes from there. My tank has definitely gone through some changes over the past couple months.
That may be my future plan trying to see if I can eradicate naturally first.
sure looks like cyano... My guess is there's not much flow on the sand bed. I got rid of my cyano by switching to LED lights from CF and adding fresh sand to the bottom along with increased flow. Then I siphoned it out and had to siphon once more and it was gone. For me light was a factor I believe. What I do know is that I threw a rock in the sump that was covered with it and it was gone in 10 days or so.
I don't know what type of lights you run but it could be the spectrum, flow, or the sand
I don't know what type of lights you run but it could be the spectrum, flow, or the sand
cyano cycles... cant remember what the period is, think it's 6 weeks. I will disappear for a week or so and gradually come back. I've watched it happen in my tank. It didn't go away for good until I made a lighting change. However, this was just my experience.
I wanted to try chemiclean but didn't like the idea of adding anit-biotics to the tank with the increased depleation of oxygen.
I wanted to try chemiclean but didn't like the idea of adding anit-biotics to the tank with the increased depleation of oxygen.