cyano and coral

hello i recently got some extra cash and wanted to get a few corals and mabye an anemone, the problem is i noticed a little bit of cyano. is cayno a problem with corals and what i the safest way to get ride of it thanks

 

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Cyano is very ubiquitous. I honestly don't think you can avoid introducing it. It is literally everywhere. Whether it takes off or not depends on how suited your system is too it.

Are you sure it's cyano though? If it is cyano though, you should be able to blow it off with a turkey baster. If not it may be something else, such as red coralline, or just another red algae. If it's cyano, you could blow it off with a turkey baster and then dip it. Or just not buy it. However, again, cyano really is everywhere, there probably is plenty in your system already....

 

Its there, Algae is another way for your tank to 'balance' the equilibrium of the tank. Also, If you have a lot of red cyano, try getting a new bulb. Old bulbs fade in the spectrum they offer, and then pander to more algaes such as red cyano.

I have the same stuff in my tank in small degrees. I Use a Turkey Baster once a week to blow it off... basically your just making it hard for the cyano to establish itself.


Its not a direct threat to your corals unless it grows over a coral, which leads to the coral having dead rotting tissue where the Algae is covering.

That Said, it is an indirect threat as algae will compete for some of the same nutrients that your coral's will use.


Long story short - Your good to go, just use a Turkey Baster to blow off any cyano algae once a week to keep your coral's higher in the 'nutrient usage' chain; And make sure you have good (not old) bulbs.

 

I used Boyd Chemiclean Red Slime Cyano Bacteria Remover to get rid of mine. If you could post a pic, it would let us help you determine what you have.

Mine was this bad at one point. It wasn't this bad when I used the Chemiclean, but I had tried lowering my phosphates and I couldn't get them completely gone.



Now it is completely gone!