20% water change?

sorry to butt in, but might I ask what cyano is ? just curious...

thanks

Scoffer

 

[quote author=Scoffer link=board=General;num=1099969536;start=0#10 date=11/11/04 at 20:07:17]sorry to butt in, but might I ask what cyano is ? just curious...
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This is a pretty good intro:
http://www.athiel.com/lib/cya.html

 

bacterial mats fed by nutrients and encouraged by low flow plus incorrect lighting.

 

Short and to the point reiple. Good description.

Jay

 

thanks.

though a common description would be "irritating and ugly red and green thingy spreading and smothering corals"

 

Don't forget that it's the bacteria that live in the red or blue green algea!

 

Also, most of the time cyano is just a phase that your tank goes through but a good way to insure that it doesn't sneek its ugly head back is to add one fighting conch per every 2 sqft of tank bottom. I have even heard that strombus snails will eat it.

Mike

 

It is not a "phase". Cyano outbreaks are not an event which transpires and disappear. Time is not the only element, a phase being an event which in due time passes.

Cyano outbreaks are effects of a condition. The condition which promotes cyano growth is what triggers it.

 

Cyano is your friend.  It is a bacteria sheltered in the slime algea that is the best nitrate & phosphate remover when you siphon it out.  It absorbs the two excess nutrients and they are completely removed by siphoning.  This keeps them from sinking into your sand bed.  When it disappears you have eliminated the nitrates & phosphates.  All is good.

 

That's a positive way to view it craig. This aspect you are right.