Beating Cyano and Dinos

[@15440jazz]

Thanks for sharing this was very informative.

[@Saltyrootsjax]

@@15440jazz no problem! Will do an update on the progress soon.

[@gregorykarapetian2822]

Get that UV going Stat!!!! UV has always knocked them back for me! I think you have the kind that UV will kill

[@Saltyrootsjax]

@@gregorykarapetian2822 unfortunately, this strain is prorocentrum which stays in the sand bed and lower rock. It doesn’t naturally go into the water column to be sterilized. However, I’m hoping as I continue to siphon it, and move it around, I will make it go into the water column a the UV will help!

[@gregorykarapetian2822]

Keep up these videos man! As a guy who also is about to have a newborn I just sold my system and regret it so bad. I got the itch bad. Watching these videos gets me really motivated to start a new system. Might at least start cooking up some dry rock in a 100 gallon Rubbermaid tote so I don’t have to battle this as bad.

[@Saltyrootsjax]

@ great idea to start seeding some rock. I have a decent amount in the sump on the bigger tank and think it’s a great idea to always have some live rock on hand. As they say, the hobby can be as expensive or as cheap as you make it. Plenty of ways to have a successful reef tank on a budget. I’m enjoying the 20 gallon way more than I thought I would and it’s super easy and inexpensive to run. Appreciate the support. Comments like that definitely make me want to keep making the videos!

[@gradyjacobsen2224]

Manual removal and the addition of nitrate and phosphate will allow competing microorganisms to outcompete cyano and once nutrient numbers aren’t zero the cyano should stay at bay. I syphoned out my cyano. Taking sand out with it. Dose nitrate and phosphate at night instead of day. Not sure why that helped but I remember doing a double dose of phosphate at 2 am and haven’t seen cyano since in my 200 gallon system.

[@gradyjacobsen2224]

I never used chemi-clean or any other chemical fix. If it’s killing cyano then what else is it killing?

[@samlevine1114]

Sorry you’re going through this frustration. Thanks for sharing. Great content.

[@Saltyrootsjax]

@@samlevine1114 thanks, Sam. Really appreciate the support!

[@zulu09]

What worked for me was removing sand, adding uv sterilizer, stopped dosing nitrate and phosphate, upped my temp to 82/83f and it slowly went away

[@Saltyrootsjax]

@@zulu09 interesting. Why did you stop dosing nitrate and phosphate? Did you just get them up and no longer needed to dose? Were they at 0 when the Dino’s showed up?

[@zulu09]

@@Saltyrootsjax wasn’t working for the strain I had. If anything it made it much worse. I’ve had tanks that had dinos and the dosing would knock it back but not this one. Also if you must dose nitrate and phosphate you need to make sure you do it at night otherwise the dino will rapidly consume it.

[@Saltyrootsjax]

@ thanks for the tips!

[@bpx2798]

@zulu09 how long did you keep the temperature elevated for?

[@zulu09]

@ took about a week to have noticeable effect. I still have it elevated btw

[@SeanLaughs]

i've been fighting this for a week now with microbacter 7 in the morning and hydrogen peroxide at night, cut my white lights to 0. Works a little bit but im about to go onto chemiclean. I'm done with this crap, driving me crazy lol. Not to mention my coraline algae started to die off when the cyano came about.

[@Saltyrootsjax]

@@SeanLaughs yep! Do what you can naturally but if that’s not working just take it out with chemiclean. The hobby is meant to be fun, it’s not worth it to be driven crazy.

[@SeanLaughs]

@@Saltyrootsjax Very true man, trying to enjoy it lol

[@jackson6745]

Search silicate dosing. That will wipe out your Dino’s.