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totter0817 · 02-08-2008, 08:39 AM

I have this awful cyanobacteria that I can not get rid of. The tank is fairly new- about 5 months, but all my test levels are perfect. My LFS told me to try to rearrange my powerheads so its stirring up the sand differently but it just comes back in a different spot. When i do water changes I try to vaccum it up but it just comes back the next day. I have also tried chemi-clean to get rid of it but that doesnt seem to be working. I am only leaving my lights on for about 5-6 hours a day. Can anybody help me? Is there something that will eat it? Oh yea, I have about 30 sandsifting snails to help stir the substrate thats not helping. Should I try a sandsifting star- I heard those could be good and bad? Sorry long thread. Somebody help...

02-08-2008, 08:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
totter0817 Spaghetti Worm Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Age: 21 Posts: 183 Karma: 286	Red Algae I have this awful cyanobacteria that I can not get rid of. The tank is fairly new- about 5 months, but all my test levels are perfect. My LFS told me to try to rearrange my powerheads so its stirring up the sand differently but it just comes back in a different spot. When i do water changes I try to vaccum it up but it just comes back the next day. I have also tried chemi-clean to get rid of it but that doesnt seem to be working. I am only leaving my lights on for about 5-6 hours a day. Can anybody help me? Is there something that will eat it? Oh yea, I have about 30 sandsifting snails to help stir the substrate thats not helping. Should I try a sandsifting star- I heard those could be good and bad? Sorry long thread. Somebody help... _________ 75 gallon:1 Niger Trigger, 1 Longnose Hawkfish,1 lawnmower blenny,1 orangespotted goby, 2 cleaner shrimp, 4 peppermint shrimp, 1 pistol shrimp, 1 emrald crab, 20 hermits, 5 turbos, 12 mexican turbos and 1 brittle star. And a ton of sandsifting snails. Leather toadstool, frogspawn, 2 pulsing(not really they quit pulsing) xenia, flavia, anthelia, a colt, a goniopora and a rock full of zoas.