Pic's of my algae problem. Please help.

Thanks for all the replies K+ to all of you.

I am feeding daily, but very little, a piece about half the size of an average pinkie nail. It is limpits reef food (you can see the recipe on youtube) I'll cut back on this now that I know, is 2-3 times a week ok?

The bulbs are brand new on my lighting, but I am not running nearly enough watts. A 3 ft 2 bulb T5 fixture only, so I should probably improve my lighting as well.

I will syphon off as much as I can today.

Flow is adequate in the tank I believe. I have a modded maxi jet pushing 1200gph, a 700gph return pump (before head pressure), and another stock maxijet pushing about 350gph. The powerheads are near the sand pointing up with the exception of the return pump outlet which is near the surface of the water. I'll try moving them around a bit.

I have about 80 mini ceriths in the tank that I got from John @ reefcleaners but they seem to stay away from the cyano. The cleanup crew doesn't really seem to eat the stuff.

I'll keep you posted on how the fight is going. I don't really want to use chemiclean unless I have to.

 

...dang, then the last piece of "sage" advice I can provide is....hang in there, it does go away...or has done so for us...

 

Never heard of anything eating cyano.......the Chemiclean is not detrimental to the tank and is a viable remedy, then, more strict adherence to limiting nutrients can be addressed.

Many believe water movement is a remedy for cyano, it isn't. Cyano is a bacteria and water movement will not eradicate it. Some may be fortunate enough that when they aimed the power head in the area of infestation the nutrient level was diminished and not allowed to be utilized and thus the die off. A rare occurrence.

 

ReefCleaners lists cyano as being eaten by ceriths, nerites and blue leg hermits. The ceriths may be because of the raw numbers he provides, which would move around the sand quite a bit and keep it from getting a hold, but you know

 

...sorry, I can only share the success I had in combating the initial cycling of the tank...the CUC package I purchased from Reef Cleaners helped then and continues to be of assistance today...but, then, there is little debate on the value of a CUC...

 

Update

Here is a pic of my new aquascape. I also vacuumed the cyano 2 days ago. It is already starting to come back in some places.

 

whoops, forgot the attachment.

 

I had a 300 gallon reef tank with the same problem but a lot worse.
I used Brightwell Aquatics Phosphate E and that got rid of all of it.
You do need a mechanical filter like a sock to catch it all

 

Johns Florida Cerinths (the tiny & junior size) are still attacking my hair algae. You need to try Fuzzy Chitons which will leave your rock spotless!! Pencil Urchins are another great help but tend to be bulldozers.
Give 'em a try.
Good Luck.