There dumped!

Just dumped all my ceramic rings out of my cannister filter, trying to beat cyano, good move or bad?

Plus changed out 2 filter sponges for 2 new



All thats running in there now is 2x20pp1 and 2x10ppi sponges
phosphate remover, active carbon 1xfine filtration cloth.

 

You just dumped out a heck of a lot of your bacteria by doing that. I would have just rinsed them off with salt water.

 

i would have removed them 1/3 at a time over a month or so. you may hit a small cycle

 

+1 to that.

probably bad I would have done maybe half at a time waited a week or two then dumped the rest.But its done now so all you can do is watch your parameters until your system catches up to the loss.

 

how does you skimmer work? you may just need a better one of those.

you may have a parameter spike but if you have enough live rock i wouldn't worry about it.

 

This would have been much easier...

 

You should change your sponges and carbon bags and rings in stages. Doing each on diff days. Beating algea takes time, you cant erase it, it will be back in a few hours. cyano sucks.

 

yea you just caused another cycle. should have left well enough alone and red cyano would have taken care of itself within time. now you just may give it more to feed on. If doing somthing like that again. slow is the way to go.

 

Ok dude's luckily enough for me, i put them in the water i took out the tank when i did a water change, they have been sitting in there an hour, so i grabbed 2-3rd's and the rest i put in new, phew lucky escape for me i think...

Cheers brandon i got some of that on order too.

 

I've used it a few times over the years. Works like a charm and doesn't hurt your livestock or corals. The cyano is usually completely gone within 48-72 hours.