To be completely honest after watching the video is the high quality possible That in your sand bed doesn’t even look like cyano brother That looks almost “Diatoms” to me but it might just be the picture quality
So I treated with a little chemiclean and that killed the remainder. If you look back at the older videos in the series you can see more of the red colored slime.
@@ShrimpDaddy94yeeee it’s k just keep a eye on it. I don’t have a problem with chemiclean itself it is 100 percent a great product in removing cyano the only issue is because it is a antibiotic it destroys all (I mean all traces) of beneficial bacteria 🦠
Is the sand ur using medium grain sized sand like arragonite? If so you need to syphon the sand where the cyano is and use a pipett, feeder tool or turkey baster in those effected areas The reason you have cyano in those areas is where low flow or no flow is happening btw
I think the sand is more of a medium-fine. I do blow the sand around with water changes and siphon the sand. Once I added the wave maker I noticed a huge difference pretty shortly after
Don’t use chemicals For the green algae, use snails For any cyano spot manual removal with syphon and filter sock , and use a turkey baster or feeder tool and blow the areas the cyano is showing up on every day for a month or so. Don’t over clean or do to much water changes. As this could hurt your pulsing xenia in the back there and could set you up for a Dinoflagellates outbreak if you get things too clean
I noticed also you got like 7 or so hermits crabs this is ok but hermits are not really ideal for algae removal especially green hair algae. Pro tip get u a good snail pack mix consisting of Turbo, Astro or the troshus ( I can’t spell it) don’t recommend urchins especially in that small tank Get you about 5-7 snails 🐌 and time and that algae be history
Yea, I figured the crabs wouldn't eat the hair algae, but they would eat left over food. Right now I have two different snails, one turbo snail, and one mystery snail.
@ it helps with all algae. It helps establish a good biological filtration. I have had my current reef tank (mainly sps) for over ten years and I have NEVER used any chemicals like chemiclean. The only thing I have used is MicroBacter7, water changes, kalk, and carbon dosing. I have started dosing straight ammonia within the last year but that’s nothing that I would suggest.
Get in there with a toothbrush and get that algae off rhe rock. Once you give it a trim...your clean up crew will be better able to clean up your algae. I wouldn't just leave it alone and hope your clean up crew does the job.
@ShrimpDaddy94 you needed to siphon it out after using the toothbrush. What happened is the built up organics on the other rocks just eventually allowed the algae to grow. The algae didn't spread because of the tooth brushing. I've done it before .. and works a charm.
This is an amazing little nano but I would not touch it with chemiclean with a 10 ft pole especially since you have virtually no cyano
To be completely honest after watching the video is the high quality possible
That in your sand bed doesn’t even look like cyano brother
That looks almost “Diatoms” to me but it might just be the picture quality
So I treated with a little chemiclean and that killed the remainder. If you look back at the older videos in the series you can see more of the red colored slime.
@@ShrimpDaddy94yeeee it’s k just keep a eye on it. I don’t have a problem with chemiclean itself it is 100 percent a great product in removing cyano the only issue is because it is a antibiotic it destroys all (I mean all traces) of beneficial bacteria 🦠
Is the sand ur using medium grain sized sand like arragonite?
If so you need to syphon the sand where the cyano is and use a pipett, feeder tool or turkey baster in those effected areas
The reason you have cyano in those areas is where low flow or no flow is happening btw
I think the sand is more of a medium-fine. I do blow the sand around with water changes and siphon the sand. Once I added the wave maker I noticed a huge difference pretty shortly after
Don’t use chemicals
For the green algae, use snails
For any cyano spot manual removal with syphon and filter sock , and use a turkey baster or feeder tool and blow the areas the cyano is showing up on every day for a month or so.
Don’t over clean or do to much water changes. As this could hurt your pulsing xenia in the back there and could set you up for a Dinoflagellates outbreak if you get things too clean
urchin will devour those hair algae
Urchin it is then! I'll go buy one
I noticed also you got like 7 or so hermits crabs this is ok but hermits are not really ideal for algae removal especially green hair algae. Pro tip get u a good snail pack mix consisting of Turbo, Astro or the troshus ( I can’t spell it) don’t recommend urchins especially in that small tank
Get you about 5-7 snails 🐌 and time and that algae be history
Yea, I figured the crabs wouldn't eat the hair algae, but they would eat left over food. Right now I have two different snails, one turbo snail, and one mystery snail.
MicroBacter7
I heard that was good too, I may try it in the future if it comes back
@ it will help your all around tank health. It will help with the green hair algae as well.
How will it help with the green hair algae?
@ it helps with all algae. It helps establish a good biological filtration. I have had my current reef tank (mainly sps) for over ten years and I have NEVER used any chemicals like chemiclean. The only thing I have used is MicroBacter7, water changes, kalk, and carbon dosing. I have started dosing straight ammonia within the last year but that’s nothing that I would suggest.
Get in there with a toothbrush and get that algae off rhe rock. Once you give it a trim...your clean up crew will be better able to clean up your algae. I wouldn't just leave it alone and hope your clean up crew does the job.
That toothbrush method is what spread the hair algae in the first place. Originally, it was only on one rock. After that toothbrush, it went all over
@ShrimpDaddy94 you needed to siphon it out after using the toothbrush. What happened is the built up organics on the other rocks just eventually allowed the algae to grow. The algae didn't spread because of the tooth brushing. I've done it before .. and works a charm.
@@ShrimpDaddy94you need to turn off flow
Use the brush and syphon it brother into a filter sock in a bucket then dump the water back into the tank 😊