Does your tank have Cyano visibly present?

I have a little tiny bit. I blasted some away with a power head, and Tonight I scrubbed if off with a tooth brush and sucked it all out. But since I have started making my own RO/DI water in my laundry room I Have been doing some very aggressive water changes.

It seems to be working quite well, that along with snails and cutting back a little bit on feedings is workin to get rid of all my nusance algea.

 

Well i battled it for over 3 months, tried everything, and it would not budge, just spread along the sandbed like a virus, in the end i took the easy route and used red slime remover, its been nearly 3 weeks now, and not a bit of slime, just snow white sand, so at the moment no i don't have cyano, but i have had it twice before...

 

where my flow is low my cyano will grow.

 

Cyano is bacterial not algae.

 

I had it really bad, and it went away with aggressive siphoning and water changes. 3 weeks later I'm starting to see it again, but very small patches on a few rocks. It's not spreading at all though.

 

IN my new 265 I have it growing in spots. I also have some green hair in it. Its a workin progress.

 

I had a really bad outbreak at the end of my cycle, then didn't see it for some time. Now I just got a small outbreak, but have controlled and reduced it with water changes and decreased feeding, it's almost gone now. I think what happened was that I was over feeding coral food and when I went away last weekend, my dad fed the fish, when I told him not to, with flake food and I have no idea how much he put in. I feel though it is one of the easier algae/bacteria types to deal with.

 

Yes a scrubber will reduce the nutrients that cyano use. Cyano is the last thing to go, however, but it will go if your scrubber is strong enough.

 

I have a few patches. No big deal. I am purchasing a few more Koralias to increase my flow to the 60x mark. So it will decrease here soon. This weekend, I get into the tank and clean the rocks that have patches.

 

Since some of my softies like Xenia died I readjusted the flow to be higher toward the rocks and most of the cyano has disappeared. There's still a few spots as it's impossible to get good flow in every nook and corner.