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OK guys...needing help. Since I've been laid up post spinal surgery, someone else has been "taking care of my tank". I put that in quote b/c I don't know if I should really use that term at all. I have a nice outbreak of Cyano in a corner that is home to an anenome. It is on the glass, sand, and small section of rock. Right bfore my surgery I added some crushed coral from a friend's tank, upgraded lighting to T5's and also had my lawnmower blenny die. How do I get rid of this crap? Should I add a blenny to eat it and see how that goes? I am a little leary of adding chemicals b/c I don't want a chemical resistant strain to pop up. I also think the lights have been left on for too long quite a bit. Like I said, being laid up I had little control over what was done with the tank. I thought I gave good directions, but guess not. I am out of bed and moving around better now. I plan on keeping a close eye on lighting, using blues for 30 minutes in the morning, flipping on full lights for 7 hours, then back down to blues for 30, then off.

Would love some advice!!

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Glad to see you back on the board, and that the surgery must've went well for you. Too bad on the timing of it, the reef conference in CT was a real good time.

Cyano can be tough, and can even exist in a low nutrient tank by taking advantage of an environment where other algae have trouble competing. If you can increase the flow to that area that would help, some water changes to get your parameters back to the way they were before,try scraping ot off the glass, and siphon out the bits plus any that exists on the substrate, do this at the end of the "lights on" cycle when the cyano bloom is at its peak. This will help to remove the algae along with all of its bound nutrients before it dies back overnight and releases them back into the water column. Increase other nutrient exports if possible, skim a bit wetter if possible, if you have a fuge with macroalgae try increasing the photoperiod a bit, and or run the fuge lights opposite of the tank lights

Also if you havent already done it, get timers on the lights, this will help with tank stability, and take some of the chore out of it.

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i would definitely second the "more flow" option as well as siphoning it right before lights out. as a "band-aid" for it if those changes cant happen, you could use some chemi-clean. it works really well but it is a chemical and i, for one, dont like putting anything in the tank that i dont have to.

And greatly reduced feeding has worked so far. Hi flow if you can get it everywhere. If there is a missed spot, the cyano will find it.

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