Too much maintenance too fast?

steveo9043

steveo9043

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Is it possible to do too much maintenance too fast?

I will be honest I have let my tank down lately after getting frustrated with Cyano. I did a 3 day blackout and most of it looks to be gone.

Things i want to do:

20 gallon water change (72 gallon tank)
scrape off all 4 sides of Coraline algae
pull the rest of the Cyano off the sand
 
It is possible. However, I don't think the maintenance you want to do is too bad.

Just don't disturb that sand bed too much or you will kick up all kinds of nitrates and nasties into your water. (I know this from a tank crash I had months ago and lost everything.)

With the water, just make sure the temperature and salinity match between what you have now and what you are putting in as new water. (Another mistake I made that killed all my corals.)

I don't think you have to worry about scraping the cyano off.

It would be good to take parameters of all your water before you do anything though. Just in case something happens, the pros on here can help you out and you may be able to pinpoint a potential issue faster by knowing what they were beforehand.

Again, this is all just from my experience. The more experienced experts on here can probably chime in with more.

Do you have corals in there too?
 
Thanks for the heads up.

I have a few corals, duncan, two SPS, bicolor frogspawn, zoa's, some others that i forgot. I would say maybe 10 pieces of coral. All opening and looking healthy.
 
yea I would definitely be careful then. Especially with the SPS and frogspawn. My experience is they are pretty sensitive to changes.

Maybe just getup the cyano a much as possible without disturbing the sandbed. Then do a small water change once per week instead of a 25% one at one time. Again, I can totally be off here but those are my experiences.
 
I tried this stuff when I had the cyano once. I never had to use it again. It was good stuff and a few other's had good experience with it on here too.

http://www.amazon.com/Chemiclean-Cyano-Bacteria-Remover-Treatment/dp/B001EUG8PG

Once it is gone, try playing with your flow to prevent it from coming back. Mine was in the back of my tank, between the liverock and wall, so I had no flow back there with the stock pumps.

I got a small powerhead and stuck it on the back side of the glass and i never had cyano again.
 
+1. Also red slime remover works well too. I just had the battle also. Probably from WAY overfeeding. Now I am battling hair algea, but I guess its a normal process of events

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I've used the chemiclean twice, first time with great success. 2nd time was decent. I originally over fed and had the lights on too long (12 hours). Now I have the lights on 6 hours and only feed every other day.

I do have dead spots and keep trying to adjust the flow.
 
Tank maintenance mostly done.

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Last night
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tonight.
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Scrapped front glass and removed the green crap from the rocks.

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Looks like cheato?

It ended up covering my Duncan and now it's white :-( I don't know if its going to make it.
 
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