Hey folks!
So I had a minor cyano outbreak. After chatting with some folks at my LFS, I took their advice (against my better judgement) and dosed with chemiclean. I was pretty hesitant about the use of chemicals as I am generally weary of any chemical additives. Hindsight being 20/20, I probably should have stuck to manual removal and water changes since the presence of cyano was minor and contained to one are.
Anyway, on to why I am here: my Duncan is not loving life after the addition of chemiclean. You can see pictures of it before and after below. The day I dosed, it had 4 new heads growing and was happy as ever, today, Duncan looks like he just got off a three day bender. This is a 55 gallon system, but not being exactly sure of water volume with consideration to rock and sand, I went ahead and only dosed the amount for a 25 gallon system. My skimmer ran, and threw a fit, and today I did a water change (7 gallons). I will do another small change tomorrow.
My question is: is this normal behavior for a Duncan? Should "he" return to normal in the coming days? All my other corals are looking happy, neon trumpets, hammer, anacropora, zoas, etc. Tested tonight, parameters are listed below, everything looks good IMO.
Temp. 78.2
Salinity 1.025
Cal. 480
pH 8.0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 2
kH 10.1
Mg. 1560
Phosphates .25 mg/L
So I had a minor cyano outbreak. After chatting with some folks at my LFS, I took their advice (against my better judgement) and dosed with chemiclean. I was pretty hesitant about the use of chemicals as I am generally weary of any chemical additives. Hindsight being 20/20, I probably should have stuck to manual removal and water changes since the presence of cyano was minor and contained to one are.
Anyway, on to why I am here: my Duncan is not loving life after the addition of chemiclean. You can see pictures of it before and after below. The day I dosed, it had 4 new heads growing and was happy as ever, today, Duncan looks like he just got off a three day bender. This is a 55 gallon system, but not being exactly sure of water volume with consideration to rock and sand, I went ahead and only dosed the amount for a 25 gallon system. My skimmer ran, and threw a fit, and today I did a water change (7 gallons). I will do another small change tomorrow.
My question is: is this normal behavior for a Duncan? Should "he" return to normal in the coming days? All my other corals are looking happy, neon trumpets, hammer, anacropora, zoas, etc. Tested tonight, parameters are listed below, everything looks good IMO.
Temp. 78.2
Salinity 1.025
Cal. 480
pH 8.0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 2
kH 10.1
Mg. 1560
Phosphates .25 mg/L