Cyanobacteria and hair algae?

[Staaan]

bump

 

[Awibrandy]

bump

Did you read the RC thread linked on the 1st. page of this thread? If you haven't read it I recommend that you do so.

 

[jaa1456]

The bryopsis most likely just came from a rock or frag you bought from a LFS. That stuff grows like weeds. And the NANO would be better, I run the NANo in my 10 gallon

 

[Staaan]

The bump was for the powerhead question.

 

[jaa1456]

I answered as in going with the NANO over the #1, The number 1 is to powerful for a 6 gallon tank.

 

[Staaan]

Yeah.. thanks Jaa, was just clarifying my "bump" lol. Thanks for the advice.

Picking up Special blend from LFS today. They don't have any of the new line of Koralia nano powerheads in yet, gotta wait till thursday. So I'll just order those online now.

 

[Awibrandy]

The bump was for the powerhead question.

I stand corrected!!!! That's what I get for skimming the thread.:kiss:

And yes I would get the Nano.

 

[jaa1456]

I still don't know why the special blend is being used, I must have missed something big time on this thread.

 

[Staaan]

The special blend info is right here..

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1767673

Apparently it has been a big success to get rid of cyanobacteria..

I've used it to cycle freshwater tanks in the past, and one saltwater tank.

 

[anthony27]

tha tis the exact phosband I was talking about. I must say good researching. It is nice to see a hobbyiest taking time to do the research. There are alot of stores that sell special blen like petco. It works realy well but throw on a skimmer water changes are good but a skimmer will help you out they have those lime stone skimmers for a nano and I met you toss that on and it will pick up crazy ammount of stuff.

 

[jaa1456]

I mean I personally would not use it for this problem. There are other ways around i. And a skimmer is not really gonna help a 6 gallon to much, Keep up on the weekly water changes that is your best bet.

 

[Staaan]

My plan is..

Water changes (just did another one today, about %50)

Chemipure Elite (have to pick it up)

Phosban (I have to get some kind of media bag for phosban right? I have to watch my alkalinity as well with phosban?

New line of Koralia Nano (285gph)

And I guess thats about all I can do?

I siphoned as much cyano I could today.

Ugh I think another few heads on my zoas have died. Gotta post some pics up maybe some one can I.D. if they are infact DEAD :-(

I've been having the worst luck with Zoas.. everything else in my tank pretty much thrives except Zoas..

I even had a rock fall on top of my Paly frag, it got squashed, and within a few days it took shape again and is thriving again.

 

[anthony27]

the special blend will help with alot and the spreading of the algie he also had a bad red algie break out. At this point run the skimmer please buy one also you dont have turn off the skimmer with the special blend and as well remove the algie and if you can get a zoa frag off of it then good but if not I wil frag some of mine foryou like I stated.


well you can add a skimmer rember skimming never hurt any thing, in fact it helps and do your water changes weekly and you will be good.

 

[KathyC]

My plan is..

Water changes (just did another one today, about %50)

Chemipure Elite (have to pick it up)

Phosban (I have to get some kind of media bag for phosban right? I have to watch my alkalinity as well with phosban?

New line of Koralia Nano (285gph)

And I guess thats about all I can do?

I siphoned as much cyano I could today.

Ugh I think another few heads on my zoas have died. Gotta post some pics up maybe some one can I.D. if they are infact DEAD :-(

I've been having the worst luck with Zoas.. everything else in my tank pretty much thrives except Zoas..

I even had a rock fall on top of my Paly frag, it got squashed, and within a few days it took shape again and is thriving again.

For the Chemi Pure Elite - be sure to pick up the correct sized container for your tank (1 unit) - you might want to get a couple of these.

No point in buying the Phosban as you are going to be using the Chemi Pure Elite (it will do about the same thing, just remember you need to change it to keep things under control)

Yes, you can frag off the zoas from the plug that has the bryposis growing on it - make sure you don't get any of the bryopsis back into the tankl (rinse off the re-done frag before you put it back)
As soon as you glue the salvaged zoas onto a piece of rubble or a plug, immediately dip it in some sw, the glue makes the frag very warm. The sw will cool it off and set the glue.

Water changes - the very best thing you can do for your tank Nobody said you have to wait a week between water changes, a couple of quarts every couple of days would be good as well.

Use a turkey baster to suck out any cyano that you see on a daily basis.
The Special Blend is great stuff, dose according to directions.

In the video - the zoa in the lower left hand corner needs more light, you might want to move it up 3 or 4 inches and see how it does. (those long stalks are the clue there)

What lighting is on this tank? Even if it is only PC's, you shouldn't have an issue growing zoas. What are you water parameters?

 

[Staaan]

Yup it is PC (stock lighting)

I like the turkey baster idea lol

Are Zoas very sensitive to salinity? I may have had a bit of hyper-salinity... it was about 1.028... with the WC today, I got it down to 1.026

I'll get more water parameters up in a bit.

What else should I run besides chemipure elite?

I have just regular stock carbon, and the aforementioned bioballs and ceramic media (which I'll be removing later today)

Should I buy an underwater light to grow some chaeto?

 

[anthony27]

Kathy is correct with the unit size for the carbon.

The alk and cal and mag is all suppplments to add to the tank.

Frag the zoas and put them on a disk and throw out the other ones that died or are dead.

If you need zoas I will frag them. Also run the phosband and please make sure you add the correct ammount into the tank over adding phosband is realy bad.

The water changes are going to be very helpfull just keep up on the changing pads in your rodi and you will be fine.

 

[Staaan]

Thanks so much Anthony!

Yeah, I got the 5oz (smallest size they make for Chemipure Elite)

Wouldn't doing frequent water changes negate the need to dose anything?
Since it is only a 6g... thats been pretty much what I've been told.

As for taking my palyzoa off its plug.. do I just take a pair of scissors and just snip it off from the stem? I don't wanna screw it up lol.


So Phosband and Chemipure elite = overkill on ferrous oxide for phosphate control, correct?

Is there ANY OTHER MEDIA I should get? I decided to just order everything online.. so before I place the order I wanted to know if there is anything else I should look into.

fosters and smith has $9 flat rate shipping no matter how much you get, so I wanna order everything I need in one shot.. lol.

Thanks again for alll the help guys, its greatly appreciated!

 

[anthony27]

nooo scissors at alll cut them from the bottom liek the way bottom of the rock like you are scraping the rock. Use a razor blade for now and make sure it is a clean one. And you can use crazy glue does not matter

 

[Staaan]

Is Purigen worth getting?

http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=4190

 

[anthony27]

not realy not alot of us use that. The chemi pure elite and when that runs out buy the phosband you should be good to go.