Pukani leaching phosphates

AC-WEB

AC-WEB

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I was posting on keisha's thread but decided to start my own. I added one piece of pukani dry rock to my 100g display, thinking the tank would be able to handle it. I was wrong. Three weeks in and i have a cyano and brown algea outbreak like never before. I had tried water changes, syphoning cyano, and turkey basting the rocks. Due to no real impact, i have today started to treat with chemiclean.

What should i do next.

Continue more vigerous water changes?

Remove the 4lbs piece of pukani?

After the cyano bloom, i took my vodka dosing offline. Should i restart and at what level?
 
4lbs did this to the tank? Something doesn't make sense to me..

But WC are always the best to help with HA and manual removal... How much vodka were you dosing? Any negative effects stopping cold turkey that you noticed from vodka?
 
I also added two pieces of shelf rock. Nothing has died, i have ai sols, skimmer is three months old(diablo xs 225), kept up same routine of maintenance i have had the last three years without this happening. I changed my rodi filters 4 months ago as well.
 
The brown stuff will go away on its own. Water changes and siphoning the cyano are good ways to keep it in check while whatever is leaching is removed.

Ever tried dosing vinegar?
 
I was dosing vinagar, but shut it down. I was worried that the cyano had something to do with the vinegar, but now i believe the pukani os the culprit. Do you recommend to start the vinegar back up now, or after i finish my chemiclean treatment.
 
AC-WEB said:
I was dosing vinagar, but shut it down. I was worried that the cyano had something to do with the vinegar, but now i believe the pukani os the culprit. Do you recommend to start the vinegar back up now, or after i finish my chemiclean treatment.
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So are you vodka or vinegar dosing?

I wouldn't start until the treatment is done and your skimmer has been running for a few days..
 
30mil is not that bad!!

But I will restart the whole process just to be safe.. Once you are done with treatment and maybe a week into turning the skimmer on.
 
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