cyano bacteria

Hello! I hope someone in the community may be able to answer my question. I have had my ten gallon tall reef tank running for about 1 year and two months and it has most definitely been a learning experience (a good one :)). For the entirety of my tanks existence, I have used the Top Fin®...

Looking for some advice regarding my lighting set up on my Fluval Evo 13.5G. I upgraded the standard LED lighting to the Fluval Marine 3.0 22watt Bluetooth lighting. Started suffering with Cyano, even though my Nitrate & Phosphate levels are not bad. I think it might be my lighting that is...

I have a lot of purple cyanobacteria on my sand and I just did a treatment of chemiclean and nothing changed! It has been 78hrs and I just did a 35% water change. Should I do another round of chemiclean or what else is there to get rid of it Ps: 12 week old tank 2 ocellaris clownfish 1 sand...

Can anyone tell me what I’m looking at under microscope. It’s kind of reddish so I was thinking cyano. But there are bubbles on it too. I did positively ID a tiny portion of Dino’s in the video. But what’s the other 90%?

Hi I am struggling to get rid of my cyano. Following twillard’s thread I starting dosing 3% hydrogen peroxide on 10.12.23 at 1ml per 10g (16 ml for my 160 gal). This was making no impact so upped it to 30ml on the 20th. Today there is still little impact. Some matts are lifting up but soon get...

I wanted to post this for anyone battling cyanobacteria. I had been doing weekly water changes for months and nothing was working trying to wipe out cyanobacteria. I was even considering Chemiclean. One week i forgot to do a water change and noticed it started to clear up. I decided to switch to...

Can anyone tell me what this is. It looks orange under blue light. It peals off almost like a thin piece of paper or skin. It has clear bubbles mostly on top but some seem to be under it. Could it be Cyano? It’s definitely not bubble algae. I did have a problem with no nitrate and kinda high...

I was wondering about this and never seen a thread that adressed this issue. If i get a frag from a tank that is known to have cyano ou dyno issues, are they going to be transfered to my tank?

My reef tank has been setup for 9 months and Im still battling this horrible red algae. No matter how much I remove it just keeps coming back. My tuxedo urchin ate so much at first but not any more. The algae has wiped out 2 zoanthid colonies, covering them up in this red slime and wiping them...

Hi All, I noticed this morning a very small patch of what I am guessing is a type of algae or cyano that is a vibrant orange under my blue lights. I just finished a round of chemi-clean early last week (~9 days ago) to wipe of the regular maroon colored cyano. The treatment worked as all of...

Hi! All of my Banded Trochus Snail seem to be suffering from paralysis. They have all fallen off the glass to the floor. Their foot shows that they are alive, but they seem to lack the enegy to attach back to glass and just lie there slowly diying/starving. I have pulled them all out of the...

Thread Highlights: May 2023 - The beginning of the Cyano War (#60) June 2023 - The Bubble-tip emerges after 3 days hidden. (#110) Fish and CuC Various Trochus, Astrea and Nassarius snails. Dwarf blue legged hermits. 2 x Tank Bred Clownfish Coral A few various Palys. Bubbletip anemones...

Tank: 10 gallon AIO TL;DR neglected tank, what’s the best way to clean up so my pump quit working while I was out of town, took a while to notice, order new pump, install, etc. in the mean time, I’ve developed some hair algae, algae growth on the glass, and all kinds of algae along the glass of...

I have an algae appear that I need help w ID. It grows in a stringy reddish brown growth pattern. Also it may or may not have air bubbles within the algae . It may be clinging to it from my HOB SKIMMER. My tank is 2 years old. Thx

I’ve been reefing for a very long time. Last November after a few year break, I started up a 75 gallon. This was the first time I used dry rock, dry sand. (Zero stars..would not recommend!) The first few months were glorious, but then came all the uglies. First it was cyano like I’ve never seen...

Hello Fellow Aquarists - I'm at the end of my rope with this problem and after a fish death a couple weeks ago, I'm looking for outside advice. I have constantly had cyanobacteria constantly growing in the tank, and I can't figure out what's feeding it. I thought I had it under control a...

This tank has been up for almost 6 months. I bought this light maybe a year ago (CoraLife 30”-36”). Tank size - 13.5g fluval 13.5 I found out recently that I can set a (rise/fall) to mimic the sunrise and sunset. The lights are on for 10 hours (including mimicry) I have a simple reading on my...

I have a very small outbreak of cyano in my tank. I’ve never had any blossom up so I’m not sure how to mitigate it (outside of mechanically removing the patches). I don’t think I’m over feeding and aside from small hair algae on the rocks and sand my tank looks ok. Do a 12% WC every other week...

Does anyone know what this is, I can’t find anything like it online.

Thought I was having an algea bloom....but have chaeto in sump. Nitrates are 2.0- 2.5 and phosphates are .08 - .04 consistently. Wondering it this is actually Diatoms, and if so, best way to exterminate. I have been running U.V. for 2 days. Very minimal change. Help!?

What’s up everyone, just have a quick question on what I got in the tank. Is it Cyano or Dinos? This tank has been up and running for 2 months and I have not had this algae but till about 2 weeks ago. I use an Ai Prime for the light mainly for my GSP. Just wondering what this is and what I can...

Been fighting low phosphates and high nitrates finally got my nitrates from around 100 parts per million to around 25. Keeping my phosphates up by dosing neophos everyday. These things used to disappear when the nitrates were out of control during the night but then would return during the day...

my parameters are in check. i dont know for sure its been many years since i saw cyano. but i think i killed of my diatoms and it seg-wayed into cyano but during that i had a alk swing that ticked off my corals and i think a algae or bacteria problem is why they aren't coming back faster or even...

I have both GHA and Cyano at the same time how do I kill them both at once?

Hello, first of all, sorry for the low quality of pictures. If anyone has any idea what this may be (algae, Dino’s, cyano?). A little background, I have had this tank for nearly a year now, about 2 months in, this spider web looking stuff (hard to see in the photos but it is a dark brown/reddish...